{"id":16552,"date":"2024-11-25T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2024-11-25T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T08:50:17","slug":"martin-baker-travis-mcgee-and-the-lost-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2024\/11\/25\/martin-baker-travis-mcgee-and-the-lost-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Baker, ‘Travis McGee’ and ‘The Lost World’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was delighted to receive an email from artist Martin Baker, having recently made up a page of the ‘foxtail’ series<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of Agatha Christe titles published by Fontana, with the majority featuring his wonderful artwork on the covers. Of the sixty nine covers I know of in this series (not including the biography) Martin painted sixty six of them with the other three having artwork by Tom Adams from a previous series. It was good to have Martin confirm that the ones I had not attributed to him were his, covers were I couldn’t spot the tell tale MB. Martin also confirmed he was the author of ‘Artist of Radio Times’ <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a>which I had queried. Martin was also kind enough to say <\/span>“I’m\u00a0attach a couple of pages from an autobiography rehearsing my Christie covers. This isn’t an egregiously self-regarding work – I’ve had a colourful life, and was asked to record it!” <\/span><\/em><\/strong>Click HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to read the pages. I think I might have been tempted to buy some of those socks as they also show PAN covers. Here are a couple more of Martin’s books and I’m really pleased to say “Thank you” as he has signed and gifted a copy of <\/span>‘Rhymes with Berti’ <\/span><\/strong><\/em>to our grandson, I’m sure he’ll love it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>When I made a page of John D MacDonald’s ‘Travis McGee’<\/strong><\/span><\/a> covers I thought I must have them all but no, up pops another one which I’ve added to the page. It is namely ‘A Deadly Shade of Gold’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> from 1974. Which, as usual, begs the question “How many more are out there that I haven’t got?”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>This weeks three editions of the same title with the same artwork but with a different house style is for PAN 100 ‘The Lost World’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle. They span the years 1949 to 1952 and are all UK printings by Hazel, Watson and Viney Ltd. Frustratingly I have yet to find the cover artist as there is no signature or initials to be seen.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was delighted to receive an email from artist Martin Baker, having recently made up a page of the ‘foxtail’ series of Agatha Christe titles published by Fontana, with the majority featuring his wonderful artwork on the covers. Of the sixty nine covers I know of in this series (not including the biography) Martin painted […]<\/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\/16552"}],"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=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}