{"id":4915,"date":"2017-01-23T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2017-02-04T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T09:51:40","slug":"piccolo-spy-shelf-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2017\/01\/23\/piccolo-spy-shelf-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Piccolo SPY SHELF etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a book on eBay that crops up now and again listed as a ‘Piccolo SPY Shelf’ title about the CIA. I’ve tended to ignore thinking it can’t be PAN\u00a0as a children’s imprint and the CIA didn’t really seem to go together. In the end curiosity got the better of me and on checking found it was a Piccolo title plus there were two more in the series which I’ve scanned in and put HERE<\/a><\/span>. The covers are by artist John Avon and I’ve emailed him but not had a reply up to now.\"SpyShelf\"<\/a>I also noticed on eBay several sellers of ‘Battle Cards’ of which number 7 refers to Terry Oakes <\/a><\/span>who painted several covers for PAN\/Piccolo. The problem was that to buy just the one specific\u00a0card would cost me about $5 but I could buy 71 including number 7 for $1 so I now also have 70\u00a0all different cards from 1993 which might\u00a0end up in a frame.
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I’m also really pleased this week in that I have got another chapter from Gordon, who is 92, and\u00a0was a\u00a0member of the crew of the boat ‘Laloun’ which PAN\u00a0bought to transport books from the printers in Paris back to London. It’s fascinating reading but I’ll save it until I’ve got all the parts. There is one bit I’ll share and that is the boat should have been called ‘Lalun’ as\u00a0after the character in the Kipling story ‘On\u00a0a City Wall’ Alan Bott\u00a0initially wanted ‘Patricia’ but boats registered at Lloyds must have unique names and this and\u00a0second choice ‘Lalun’\u00a0were already in use so\u00a0the ‘o’ was added to make ‘Laloun’<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a book on eBay that crops up now and again listed as a ‘Piccolo SPY Shelf’ title about the CIA. I’ve tended to ignore thinking it can’t be PAN\u00a0as a children’s imprint and the CIA didn’t really seem to go together. In the end curiosity got the better of me and on checking […]<\/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\/4915"}],"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=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}