{"id":8735,"date":"2020-06-29T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=8735"},"modified":"2020-06-30T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:58:32","slug":"acceptable-bond-in-hebrew-and-hammond-innes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2020\/06\/29\/acceptable-bond-in-hebrew-and-hammond-innes\/","title":{"rendered":"An Award, Acceptable?, Bond  and Hammond Innes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image1-1024x549.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8818\" width=\"580\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image1-1024x549.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image1-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image1-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image1.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">People often ask &#8220;Are PAN still going?&#8221; Well to prove it they have just come first as the &#8216;Publisher of the Year&#8217; in the &#8216;British Book Awards 2020&#8217; Well done.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today we have a quiz, guess which description goes with which book?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>&#8220;Condition is Acceptable. This may be one of the only original surviving books in circulation. It is charming, some pages have been taped together a long time ago, but it gives it character, after all it was made in 1976&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>&#8220;Fair condition paperback &#8211; creasing and wrinkling to covers and tanning to pages &#8211; good reading copy&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls1-603x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8737\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=8737\" class=\"wp-image-8737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls1-603x1024.jpg 603w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls1-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls1.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls2-552x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8738\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=8738\" class=\"wp-image-8738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls2-552x1024.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls2-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dolls2.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first one (left) was from eBay and although reasonably cheap didn&#8217;t look this bad in the photos and, trying to be kind, may have suffered in the post. The second one (right) was not much more expensive and was from Abebooks. Considering the descriptions are not a million miles apart their conditions certainly are.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/JamesBondHebrew.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/JamesBondHebrew.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/JamesBondHebrew-300x16.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HebrewThunder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HebrewThunder-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HebrewThunder-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HebrewThunder.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recently someone was selling fifteen Bond titles on Facebook in Hebrew. I think they must have been snapped up but I did message the seller to ask, very nicely,&nbsp; if it was possible to have photos of just three of them before they were posted? I would have also liked to know what they were as apparently the one with the <em>&#8216;From Russia With Love&#8217;<\/em> cover is actually <em>&#8216;Thunderball&#8217;<\/em> Answer came there none! Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2020\/BitsandPieces\/HebrewBond.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to see the three covers that have elements from PAN covers<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I purchased a copy of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/PANG381.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">G381 &#8216;The Killer Mine&#8217;<\/span> <\/strong><\/a><\/em>by Ralph Hammond-Innes as not only was it signed by him but also there was a letter saying that he didn&#8217;t normally sign paperbacks(!)&nbsp; but was making an exception so this was something rare. I am currently re-scanning Hammond Innes titles from PAN from the 1950\/60&#8217;s when there seems to be a gap before PAN starts publishing titles again in the 1990&#8217;s. I went through AbeBooks and grabbed all the cover photos I could and put them together below.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Covers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Covers-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Covers-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Covers-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Covers-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Covers-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Covers.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often ask &#8220;Are PAN still going?&#8221; Well to prove it they have just come first as the &#8216;Publisher of the Year&#8217; in the &#8216;British Book Awards 2020&#8217; Well done. Today we have a quiz, guess which description goes with which book? &#8220;Condition is Acceptable. This may be one of the only original surviving books [&hellip;]<\/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\/8735"}],"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=8735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}