{"id":2682,"date":"2015-03-02T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T08:32:02","slug":"a-bit-more-from-george-and-getting-paid-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/03\/02\/a-bit-more-from-george-and-getting-paid-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit more from George and getting paid twice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Following on from my reference to how the painting for &#8220;Testament&#8221; by George Sharp was turned upside down I also found the same image used by Chatto and Windus for their hardback edition. The gun is again shown in yet another position to the original and George tells me he didn&#8217;t get paid for this edition! &#8220;First Blood&#8221; from 1973 has a cover in a very similar style but George says it is not his and I can&#8217;t find a name as yet.<\/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-2682 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><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\/02\/09\/russell-mills-updated-plus-a-note-from-george-sharp\/unnamed2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/unnamed2-188x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/unnamed2-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/unnamed2.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/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\/03\/02\/a-bit-more-from-george-and-getting-paid-twice\/testament-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Testament-183x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Testament-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Testament.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/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\/03\/02\/a-bit-more-from-george-and-getting-paid-twice\/first-blood\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/First-Blood-183x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/First-Blood-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/First-Blood.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I often wonder if it was the case with other covers that artists didn&#8217;t get paid twice especially ones like the Shute series from 1974 by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Blog\/Roger%20Coleman.htm\">Roger Coleman <\/a><\/span>when they were used in the USA by Ballantine with whom PAN, I think, had a link through Ian and Betty Ballantine (Ian Ballantine was connected with Penguin in the late 40&#8217;s\u00a0but there was a falling out)<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Biro.jpg\" alt=\"Biro\" width=\"192\" height=\"156\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another series where the same covers appeared on the UK and USA editions are titles by Jean Plaidy used by PAN in the 60\/70&#8217;s and by Putnams in the 70&#8217;s. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve put a few <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Cartland\/DuMaurier\/PutnamPlaidy.html\">HERE<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">I can find no reference to a cover artist for PAN editions so I bought the hardback Putnam edition of &#8216;Murder Most Royal&#8217; as US publisher usually credit the artist but unfortunately not in this case. Does anyone know who he\/she\/they might be? The shield above appears on the title page of\u00a0the PAN Plaidy &#8220;Stuart Series&#8221; and is by the late PAN cover stalwart Val Biro.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my reference to how the painting for &#8220;Testament&#8221; by George Sharp was turned upside down I also found the same image used by Chatto and Windus for their hardback edition. The gun is again shown in yet another position to the original and George tells me he didn&#8217;t get paid for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682"}],"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=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}