{"id":2575,"date":"2015-01-19T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T08:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2015-02-15T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T22:07:10","slug":"cover-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/01\/19\/cover-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2584\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2584\" class=\"wp-image-2584 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Image1-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image1\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Image1-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Image1.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter (07\/71) and Ian (08\/64) Fleming<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve often mentioned how unattractive I find some\u00a0titles as I do judge a book by its cover. It was while sorting the 1974\/75 titles in the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2013%20Large\/GS.htm\">&#8216;Grand Strategy&#8217; <\/a><\/span>series I\u00a0found what an amalgam of different image sources had been used although not altogether unpleasing. I then looked at some of the later reprints and realised it was all down hill from then on. I have picked one title &#8216;Operation Sea Lion&#8217; by Peter Fleming, Ian&#8217;s brother as I&#8217;m sure everyone knows, and scanned three versions from 1975, 1984 and 2003 as below. Peter often described himself as &#8220;a kind of uncle of James Bond&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2575 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/01\/19\/cover-designs\/gs2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GS2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/01\/19\/cover-designs\/gs11\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GS11-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/01\/19\/cover-designs\/gs12\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GS12-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. and in spite of me being determined not to I have added to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Cartland\/Cartland1.htm\">Barbara Cartland&#8217;s <\/a><\/span>covers page\u00a0making the number now 102!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just noticed that Rod Tayler died on January 7th and although he appeared in many films I always think of him in Hitchcock&#8217;s &#8220;The Birds&#8221; by Daphne du Maurier\u00a0and the\u00a0PAN Book cover by George Sharp from 1977.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%20PANs\/George%20Sharp.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Birds\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birds-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birds.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often mentioned how unattractive I find some\u00a0titles as I do judge a book by its cover. 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