{"id":18625,"date":"2026-08-03T07:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=18625"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:55:58","slug":"tramp-royal-the-big-story-and-updated-price-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/08\/03\/tramp-royal-the-big-story-and-updated-price-list\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tramp Royal’, ‘The Big Story’ and Updated Price List"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think this will be the last of the David Tayler PAN roughs for a bit but I am hoping to acquire some more. This time it is for ‘Tramp Royal’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Michael Bruce. Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 11th Baronet (27\/03\/1894 to<\/span> 02\/05\/1957) was an author and soldier. He went to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Abingdon School and later <\/span>joined the British South Africa Police as a trooper. After the First World War service with the Royal Artillery at <\/span>Gallipoli\u00a0and on the\u00a0<\/span>Western Front, Bruce became a traveller, largely in <\/span>Africa\u00a0and South America, and an author and newspaper columnist. During the Second World War he served in a barrage balloon unit, with 901 (County of London) squadron,\u00a0<\/span>Royal Air Force Regiment.<\/span> Later in the war he was Senior Weapons Instructor for glider pilots at Bridgnorth.\u00a0<\/span>I do have quite a few more Tayler roughs for westerns which weren’t published by PAN. I am being encouraged to put them on the web so they might appear one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>Just when you think you have them all up pops a different cover. This one is for the 1973 edition of ‘The Big Story’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Morris West. This makes it five, I have including three numbered G226 one of which was for the 1965 film tie-in when the title was changed to ‘The Crooked Road’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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A couple of blogs back I included a list of the letters and prices PAN used for their eclectic numbering system pre SBN (Standard Book Number) and then for SBNs on the spine before ISBNs came in. I thought I had listed them all but on taking my 1970 copy of ‘East Of Eden’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> by John Steinbeck off the shelf I noticed it was a ‘C’ which made it 8\/- or 40p today. Now wondering how many more I might have missed?<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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I think this will be the last of the David Tayler PAN roughs for a bit but I am hoping to acquire some more. This time it is for ‘Tramp Royal’ by Michael Bruce. Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 11th Baronet (27\/03\/1894 to 02\/05\/1957) was an author and soldier. He went to\u00a0Abingdon School and later […]<\/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\/18625"}],"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=18625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18672,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18625\/revisions\/18672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}