{"id":17963,"date":"2026-01-12T07:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=17963"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:29:47","slug":"deep-pockets-the-book-of-the-sausage-and-clarence-paget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/01\/12\/deep-pockets-the-book-of-the-sausage-and-clarence-paget\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Deep Pockets, ‘The Book of the Sausage’ and Clarence Paget"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had an email from Bazeer at Pizgloria.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong> asking if I had spotted the above on eBay. I will admit I am a bit behind in my searches so I hadn’t noticed it but we both agreed our pockets weren’t deep enough for this display advert. Somebody’s were though as it went for the asking price of \u00a3260. I also noticed Doug\u00a0 Redenius selling the below on Facebook. By the time I got around to asking what he might want for it, it had already been sold for $150. If it had still be available that one might have had me rattling the piggy bank. The ‘007 Night Spot’ at the London Hilton Hotel was a James Bond themed bar that open in 1968 and closed in the late 1970’s and the menu’s were made from genuine PAN book covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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PAN always did have an eclectic catalogue of titles and one I particularly like is ‘The Book of the Sausage’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> MD Ralph Vernon Hunt was at the book launch and he is well known for portraying James Bond on the directors covers, the spy who was not adverse to a bit of hide the sausage himself I’m led to believe.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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While looking through old copies of<\/span> ‘The Bookseller’<\/span><\/strong> from 1991 <\/span>I came across a reference to an obituary for Clarence Paget that was going to appear the next week. I have tracked it down and it can be viewed<\/span> HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Paget was probably most well know for editing<\/span> ‘The PAN Book of Horror Stories’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> taking on the mantle after Herbert van Thal.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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And finally the answers to last weeks quiz as if you needed them; 1) 1944 2) Alan Bott 3) Ten Stories by Rudyard Kipling 4) Mervyn Peake 5) Full colour cover artwork 6) Paris 7) A lot of pornography came from France 8) Ian Fleming 9) To sell a million copies 10) Ralph Vernon Hunt 11) Leslie Charteris 12) The PAN Book Of Horror Stories 13) Macmillan, Collins, Heinemann or Hodder & Stoughton 14) Great PAN 15) James Herriot 16) Edward Young 17) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 18)1987 19) PAN Macmillan 20) Jackie Collins<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an email from Bazeer at Pizgloria.com asking if I had spotted the above on eBay. I will admit I am a bit behind in my searches so I hadn’t noticed it but we both agreed our pockets weren’t deep enough for this display advert. Somebody’s were though as it went for the asking […]<\/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\/17963"}],"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=17963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}