{"id":2461,"date":"2014-11-24T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:02:33","slug":"douglas-adams-boxed-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/11\/24\/douglas-adams-boxed-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Adams Boxed Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just acquired an unread\u00a0boxed set of the five titles in the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Blog\/DouglasAdams.htm\">&#8216;Hitch Hikers Guide&#8217; <\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">trilogy which\u00a0have facsimiles of the original covers. These were published in 2002 by TOR Books which is the science fiction\/fantasy imprint of PAN Books. They have used the 79, 80, 82, 84 and 92 covers but as someone put on Amazon in their review<\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">&#8220;Bought this as a gift for someone. They were desperately disappointed, with the paperback cover images. They are so obviously a fake. It looks as if the person who created the cover images could not be bothered to do a decent job in scanning the original paperback covers. However, the content of the books. Brilliant. But why would you wish to buy a box set of the original paperback editions? To have the originals, or a very good copy of them. And this is a very poor copy of them&#8221;<\/span> <\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">with which I have to agree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They are all labelled &#8216;Commemorative Edition&#8221; which I took to mean commemorating a year since his passing but on checking it is actually 11 months! Any other suggestions?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DouglasAdamsGoldenPan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DouglasAdamsGoldenPan-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"DouglasAdamsGoldenPan\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DouglasAdamsGoldenPan-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DouglasAdamsGoldenPan.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Douglas Adams received\u00a0&#8216;Golden PAN&#8217; awards for the first three HHG\u00a0titles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just acquired an unread\u00a0boxed set of the five titles in the &#8216;Hitch Hikers Guide&#8217; trilogy which\u00a0have facsimiles of the original covers. These were published in 2002 by TOR Books which is the science fiction\/fantasy imprint of PAN Books. They have used the 79, 80, 82, 84 and 92 covers but as someone put on Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}