{"id":9849,"date":"2021-02-01T06:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=9849"},"modified":"2021-02-01T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T07:48:50","slug":"jackie-collins-castle-ugly-and-i-leap-over-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2021\/02\/01\/jackie-collins-castle-ugly-and-i-leap-over-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Collins, ‘Castle Ugly’ and ‘I leap Over the Wall’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I have yet to read all of a novel by Jackie Collins I have mentioned her several times as she was one of PAN’s best selling authors receiving 9 (?) ‘Golden PAN Award’s for selling a million copies each of 9 titles. I am currently trying to track down all the editions with covers by George Sharp from around the late 1980s but again the old problem of no image from a seller and the same text block and date used for several editions. These are ones I have or have found on the web so far HERE <\/span><\/strong><\/a>but if you can help with others please get in touch. Some of the dates also need double checking as they are outside the range for this series.<\/span><\/span> I contacted George to ask him about them and he said “As for the covers I did for Jackie Collins I can only remember one or two of them. My son Ben has the original artwork of one hanging in his office. I like it a lot! Jackie was a most likeable person, very relaxed and natural. Everyone liked her” <\/span><\/em>Photo below shows George on Jackie’s left.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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While going through the list of Hans Helweg covers I found one listed as ‘Castle Ugly’ which was not a familiar title. I know the list says they are PANs but I have also found there are a few from other publishers and magazine illustrations. Luckily I found one copy online from Maurice at<\/span> Zardoz<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and was really pleased with the condition when it arrive but a bit disappointed with the artwork on the cover although it is clearly signed H.Helweg so Hans liked it as he didn’t sign all his work. As far as I can tell PAN only published this one title from Mary Ellin Barrett (born November 25th 1926) who was the daughter of composer Irving Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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This weeks sketches from Han’s folders are for ‘I Leap Over the Wall’<\/strong> <\/span><\/em><\/a>by Monica Baldwin of which PAN published many editions with cover variants. Han’s cover goes with the 1971 edition.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Although I have yet to read all of a novel by Jackie Collins I have mentioned her several times as she was one of PAN’s best selling authors receiving 9 (?) ‘Golden PAN Award’s for selling a million copies each of 9 titles. I am currently trying to track down all the editions with covers […]<\/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\/9849"}],"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=9849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}