{"id":17535,"date":"2025-09-08T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:50:11","slug":"bestsellers-of-literature-part-2-josephine-blumenfeld-cases-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2025\/09\/08\/bestsellers-of-literature-part-2-josephine-blumenfeld-cases-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bestsellers of Literature’ Part 2, Josephine Blumenfeld, ‘Cases in Court’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finished scanning in the last of the 26 ‘Bestsellers of Literature’<\/span><\/strong> <\/a>I started last week. I’m still trying to find out if there was only one title with a later style of header on the front cover as on ‘Wuthering Heights’<\/span><\/strong><\/em>? I also found ‘The Lost Books Of Jane Austen’<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by Janine Barchas shows a couple of PAN covers while a company in the States will sell you a print of ‘Wuthering Heights’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> for just $65 in a frame!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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I picked up an inscribed copy of ‘Shrimps for Tea’<\/span> <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Josephone Blumenfeld, Alan Bott’s wife’ It is inscribed ‘For a reveared Uncle from his disrespectful niece Josephine July 1930’<\/em><\/span><\/strong> which makes it a first edition. The only problem is ‘Who was the uncle?’ I though of her Father, Ralph David Blumenfeld, who had one brother, Maximillian. Josephine’s Mother, Theresa Salie, had two brothers whom I thought would be uncles but my wife reminded me that sister’s husbands could also be uncles which means another four possibilities. The brothers were Joseph and Siegfried while the sisters were Jane, husband William, Frieda, husband John, Blanche, husband Henry and Veronika, husband unknown,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>I’m now taking random books of the shelves to rescan and the latest couple are GP18 ‘Cases in Court’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Sir Patrick Hastings with editions published in 1953, 1954 and 1955. They all appear to have the same front and back cover apart from the title on the 1953 edition which is on a blue background while the others are on a yellow background. Around this time there are quite a few variations of colour for the title background, a bit like the logo on the spine. <\/span>Patrick Gardiner Hastings\u00a0 was born 17\/03\/1880 in London and died 26\/02\/1952 also in London.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve finished scanning in the last of the 26 ‘Bestsellers of Literature’ I started last week. I’m still trying to find out if there was only one title with a later style of header on the front cover as on ‘Wuthering Heights’? I also found ‘The Lost Books Of Jane Austen’ by Janine Barchas shows […]<\/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\/17535"}],"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=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}