{"id":4959,"date":"2017-02-13T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T06:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T08:33:34","slug":"posh-book-and-piccolo-or-piper-first-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2017\/02\/13\/posh-book-and-piccolo-or-piper-first-books\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Posh Book&#8217; and Piccolo or Piper First Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Murder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Murder-300x175.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Murder-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Murder-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Murder.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Spotted this on Abebooks and was tempted for all of three seconds until I saw the price but then again I don&#8217;t suppose Agatha signed that many paperbacks. It&#8217;s definitely a classier rebinding than\u00a0a lot I&#8217;ve seen and apparently the book originally belonged to Mary Anna Marten OBE (1929 &#8211; 2010) and was purchased via auction. It was part of a lot of Thirty Five signed Agatha Christie books bound together in seven volumes. These have now been split and re-bound into separate individual volumes. All books were signed by Agatha Christie sometime in the late sixties. This slim volume can be yours for just \u00a3575 plus \u00a33.95 postage.\u00a0Below are a few more\u00a0with different publishers from the same seller, Lasting Words Ltd. and with prices ranging from \u00a3425 to the PAN as the most expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FBFirst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FBFirst-272x300.jpg\" width=\"362\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FBFirst-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FBFirst.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is a bit confusing as the four titles\u00a0as above are listed as a Piper series but with the Piccolo logo while inside it says &#8216;First published by Piper Ltd in 1984 and distributed under the Piccolo imprint by PAN Books Ltd&#8217;\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%20Pipers\/FirstBooks.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/a> to see the four covers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GGd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GGd-300x31.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GGd-300x31.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GGd-768x78.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GGd.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The imprints and their logos are usually to be found as in the two examples above of \u00a0&#8216;Gangsters, Ghosts and Dragonflies&#8217; with covers by Terry Oakes (next blog) from 1983 and 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted this on Abebooks and was tempted for all of three seconds until I saw the price but then again I don&#8217;t suppose Agatha signed that many paperbacks. It&#8217;s definitely a classier rebinding than\u00a0a lot I&#8217;ve seen and apparently the book originally belonged to Mary Anna Marten OBE (1929 &#8211; 2010) and was purchased via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959"}],"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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}