{"id":15134,"date":"2024-01-22T07:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T07:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=15134"},"modified":"2024-01-22T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T09:32:57","slug":"a-quartet-of-signatures-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2024\/01\/22\/a-quartet-of-signatures-special\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quartet of Signatures Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up four signed titles this week with one costing a little more than I was hoping to pay but then again that’s my fault for making my maximum bid what I did.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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NUMBER 1 ‘Natural Causes’<\/span> <\/em><\/a><\/strong>by Henry Cecil from 1955. It is dedicated to a\u00a0Hugh Manning<\/span><\/strong><\/a> who may or may not be the film and television actor.
Henry Cecil Leon was born in London (19\/09\/1902 to 23\/05\/1976) and wrote under the pen-names Henry Cecil and Clifford Maxwell. He became a British barrister, judge, and a writer of fiction about the British legal system with over 35 titles to his name.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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NUMBER 2<\/strong> ‘The Colditz Story’<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by Pat Reid. It is dedicated to a ‘Paul’ and I could speculate it could be Paul Brickill<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as they were prisoners at Colditz together. I have several books I’ve got signed to me and they only say ‘Tim’ Maybe it should have my full name so in the future people will at least have a bit more information to guess who it might be?<\/span>
Patrick Robert Reid, MBE, MC was born in India (13\/11\/1910 to 22\/05\/1990) As a British prisoner of war during the Second World War, he was held captive at Colditz Castle when it was designated Oflag IV-C. Reid was one of the few to escape from Colditz, crossing the border into neutral Switzerland in late 1942.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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NUMBER 3<\/strong><\/span> ‘A Chieftain Finds Love’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Barbara Cartland is dedicated a ‘Justine’ but again no idea as to\u00a0 whom that might be. The book came with a booklet about Barbara Cartland and has several pages of her titles and indicates which were published by which publishers. It marks 105 as by PAN but I have 133 so not that accurate a guide! You can see more of her signatures HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, DStJ (09\/07\/1901 to 21\/05\/2000) was an English writer, known as the Queen of Romance, who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland was a best-selling author worldwide having written over 700 books.
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NUMBER 4<\/strong><\/span> ‘My Friend Annie’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jane Duncan is flat signed with no dedication.<\/span>
Jane Duncan (10\/02\/1910 to 20\/10\/1976) was the pseudonym of Scottish author Elizabeth Jane Cameron, best known for her ‘My Friends’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> series of semi-autobiographical novels. She wrote 19 all together of which PAN published 14 and I’ll put them all on a page soon. She also wrote four novels under the name of her principal heroine Janet Sandison<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, and some children’s books.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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I picked up four signed titles this week with one costing a little more than I was hoping to pay but then again that’s my fault for making my maximum bid what I did. NUMBER 1 ‘Natural Causes’ by Henry Cecil from 1955. It is dedicated to a\u00a0Hugh Manning who may or may not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}