{"id":8749,"date":"2020-07-06T05:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2020-07-06T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:23:18","slug":"lockdown-sam-and-roger-wilbur-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2020\/07\/06\/lockdown-sam-and-roger-wilbur-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lockdown&#8217;, Sam and Roger, Wilbur Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/105482664_10223134959260002_1196619354977991836_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/105482664_10223134959260002_1196619354977991836_n.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/105482664_10223134959260002_1196619354977991836_n-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From talking to fellow collectors I know it&#8217;s not just me being forced(!) to sit in front of a computer for hours on end as a consequence of COVID-19. On the minus side I know it is proving to be more expensive in terms of purchases but on the plus side feel I am doing my bit by keeping booksellers, the postman and delivery drivers in full employment! I though the above cartoon I found on a book collectors &#8216;Facebook&#8217; page particularly apt, well it&#8217;s how my wife sees it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Still looking through the negatives Kathy (Sam Peffer&#8217;s great niece) kindly gave me and I found one I could link to &#8216;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/PANG300.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">To Love and be Wise&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/em> by Josephine Tey of which PAN printed at least five editions with different covers between 1953 and 1973.&nbsp; I was also intrigued to see the 1959 edition on the table behind Sam and Roger Hall. It&#8217;s almost as it they were sitting in the similar poses to those on the cover.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SamandRoger.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SamandRoger.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SamandRoger-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SamandRoger-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 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\/WS1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8782\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=8782\" class=\"wp-image-8782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS1.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS1-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8783\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=8783\" class=\"wp-image-8783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS2.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS2-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8784\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS3.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=8784\" class=\"wp-image-8784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS3.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WS3-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Picked up yet another signed PAN title inscribed to &#8216;Celeste&#8217;. She has been mentioned before being Celeste Parsons who worked at PAN in the 70&#8217;s. The seller also had several more Smith titles all signed to Celeste but I only bought the one as the Kevin Tweddell cover for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/CW.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;<em>Cry Wolf&#8217;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a> always make me think of the film &#8216;Tank Girl&#8217; from 1995.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From talking to fellow collectors I know it&#8217;s not just me being forced(!) to sit in front of a computer for hours on end as a consequence of COVID-19. On the minus side I know it is proving to be more expensive in terms of purchases but on the plus side feel I am doing [&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\/8749"}],"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=8749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}