After mentioning Liz Moyes last week I took note that three of her covers were for Irwin Shaw’s ‘The Master Storyteller’ series. I have sorted out my later Shaw’s from the 70s and early 80s which can be seen HERE PAN also published ‘Young Lions’ in many editions from 1957 onwards plus X131 ‘Two Weeks in Another Town’, G295 ‘Tip on a Dead Jockey’, G337 ‘Lucy Crown’ and M12 ‘Mixed Company’ Irwin Shaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff (27/02/1913 – 16/05/1984) and was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author who has sold more than 14 million copies. ‘The Young Lions’ is about the fate of three soldiers during World War II and was made into a film starring Marlo Brando and Montgomery Clift.
Having mentioned last week the two ‘roughs’ by Gordon King I got for ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ I set about trying to find the edition they might have eventually ended up in. I bought the Everyman Library paperback edition as it said illustrated by Gordon King to find they had just used his artwork for the cover. I then thought I would investigate the hardback edition only to find no mention of Gordon at all but with a cover by Steve Lavis. Does anyone have an edition that has illustration in the book as neither of these do?
As well as publishing the Referees’ Handbook, PAN was also involved with the Football Association Year Book for a short while, The 71/72 edition was published by Pelham while the 72/73, 73/74 and 74/75 editions were published by Heinemann and distributed by PAN and had two ISBNs from both publishers. It wasn’t until the 75/76 and 76/77 editions that Heinemann disappeared and PAN took over as official publisher with their logo on the spine. In 77/78 Pelham took over again, then Clowes.
