Jacques Laurent or Jacques Laurent-Cély, writer and journalist, was born in Paris on the 5th January 1919  and died in Paris on 29th  December 2000. He wrote numerous novels under several pen names with PAN publishing the titles where he used the name Cecil saint-Laurent. PAN seemed to like the novels featuring young ladies! A couple of dozen of his works were made into films including ‘Caroline Cherie’ in 1951.

Caroline Cherie appears in four titles including X102  ‘Caroline Cherie’ (incorrectly numbered as X104) X162 ‘The Loves of Caroline Cherie’, X282 ‘The Intrigues of Caroline Cherie’ and M42 ‘Caroline Cherie and Juan’ Looking at lists there appears to be more in this series but that could just be down to different translation of the titles from French. Clotilde appears in two titles namely M7 ‘Clotilde’ and X127 ‘Encore Clotilde’ while Bernadette is just in one this being M79 ‘Algerian Adventure’

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I wonder why there are not bidders for this?

HOMAGE An allusion or imitation by one artist to another. In 2020 Véhicule Press of Canada published under the imprint Ricochet Books ‘The Ravine’ by Phyllis Brett Young. They used the same artwork as the PAN edition and mention the cover was adapted by J W Stewart but not that the original was by Pat Owen whose signature is at the bottom right. The PAN edition G663 has the author as Kendal Young while the Ricochet edition uses her real name. PAN published three other titles by Young. There appears to be two variants , one with the extra writing as on the PAN edition and one without.

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PASTICHE An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period. TV/Film extra of more that 2,000 appearances, John R Walker, has written several books and uses a style of cover similar to other publishers. The one I noticed was ‘Dial Extra for Murder’ from 2023 which is a pastiche of PAN. He also used Target and Coronet for other titles. He was voted ‘Britain’s Most Prolific Television Extra’ in 2013 and has been an extra for over 15 years so watch out Jules. He now works as 1st Assistant Director at the BBC.

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PAN published the ‘Avaryan Rising’ trio by Judith Tarr all with artwork by different artists namely Peter Mennim, Patrick Jones and Fred Gambino. I like the artwork but not they are in B format which doesn’t look right on the shelf with all the other titles. Tarr also wrote three more titles to make it six in the trio namely ‘Arrows of the Sun‘. ‘Spear of Heaven‘ and ‘Tides of Darkness’