{"id":17561,"date":"2025-09-22T07:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=17561"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:06:58","slug":"villain-the-living-daylights-and-pan-papersculpture-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2025\/09\/22\/villain-the-living-daylights-and-pan-papersculpture-books\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Villain’, ‘The Living Daylights’ and PAN Papersculpture Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Someone posted on Facebook a very small black and white screen shot of Richard Burton reading a PAN book in the film ‘Villain’<\/span><\/strong><\/a> You could just about make out it was a first edition of ‘The Diamond Smugglers’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ian Fleming but I have managed to get a better one in colour. Both the 1960 and 1962 editions have covers by David Tayler. Another addition to the ‘PAN as seen in films’<\/span><\/strong><\/a> page.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Something else that was posted on Facebook was a cover for<\/span> ‘<\/span>The Living Daylights’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> mocked up to look like a PAN cover. I’ve tried to read the ‘number’ but failed so far. There are many sites showing pastiche PAN Bond covers which I did start listing but have now given up.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Not quite sure why but I can’t resist a P<\/span>ap<\/strong>ersculpture<\/span><\/strong><\/a> book of which PAN published two, both by\u00a0 Goldley and Creme, who were also a rock duo around the end of the 1970s..These titles are often priced high with a couple of ‘The Railway Children’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> on eBay for \u00a363 and \u00a357. They’ve been there a while so that might be a reflection on the price, I can’t find another copy of ‘<\/span><\/em>Cromwell’ <\/span><\/strong><\/em>currently available so to get my latest for \u00a34.99 was a bargain. I seem to have 15 of the one and 6 of the other, maybe time to reign in this obsession and leave a few for someone else.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone posted on Facebook a very small black and white screen shot of Richard Burton reading a PAN book in the film ‘Villain’ You could just about make out it was a first edition of ‘The Diamond Smugglers’ by Ian Fleming but I have managed to get a better one in colour. Both the 1960 […]<\/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\/17561"}],"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=17561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}