I'd forgotten about 'Florentine Finish' by Hirschberg- read it about thirty years ago in the Alison & Busby crime series, enjoyed it I recall. Agree re 'The Green Man', probably my favourite Kingsley Amis too - incidentally, his 'The Alteration' has the same alt-hist setting as 'Pavane' and even mentions Roberts and PKD in the text. Panther really was one of the great imprints, beautiful books.
I have a 1980 reprint of Ray Bradbury's _The Illustrated Man_ with the oblate, although admittedly according to the copyright page it's a reissue of the 1977 edition. So, yeah, looks like it petered out around '77...
Nice . And the cover images at the....cool . I am a big fan of the Judge Dee books . Supper fan of KR, JGB and PHF . Alas i can only get them in the second hand book stores . And they are becomming harder to come by .
Great video didn’t realise I had as many of those books until you put up the list at the the end .so many great books picked them up dirt cheap second hand back in the 80s mostly .
Jules, have you ever seen the Van Gulik USA released paperbacks from the 1970’s published by the University Of Chicago Press? Those are quite striking. I remember them really standing out on the Mystery section shelves at the bookstores back then. I was an idiot not to pick them up in my younger days, but to be honest they kind of intimidated me!
I have seen pictures of them. When I was putting my set together, some of the final books, I think, were only published in those USA editions. Even some of my later Panther editions took a long time to track down.
@ProfessorEchoMedia it was made as one of three different ones as a prototype from GW Acrylic. They make cases for action figures and I asked him to make some for paperbacks. it never got past the prototypes, sadly. They are great, I'd probably buy about fifty off him🙂
Wow! I'd never seen most of those. Thanks, Jules!
My pleasure Bob🙂
You tempted me and I was weak. Went shopping today and bought my first Crime Band novel (van Gulik's "Chinese Bell Murders")
An excellent book with beautiful design, you won't go wrong🙂👍
Excellent video I never seem to find avengers books
Thanks John. I suspect they have got much scarcer in recent years. Recently snagged the first Consul edition off eBay for £9 which was a decent price.
I'd forgotten about 'Florentine Finish' by Hirschberg- read it about thirty years ago in the Alison & Busby crime series, enjoyed it I recall. Agree re 'The Green Man', probably my favourite Kingsley Amis too - incidentally, his 'The Alteration' has the same alt-hist setting as 'Pavane' and even mentions Roberts and PKD in the text. Panther really was one of the great imprints, beautiful books.
I did not know that about The Alteration, another Keith tie in, wow. Thanks Steve👍
@@JulesBurt Same basic idea, treated in a very different way, but great fun.
Nice!@@outlawbookselleroriginal
Jules, Great video and great info on a little known series. I collect all the Chester Himes and they are terrific.
Thanks Gary. Yes, the Chester Himes in Panther are really great editions. Sadly, I'm missing quite a few but have most in USA paperback 1st.
I have a 1980 reprint of Ray Bradbury's _The Illustrated Man_ with the oblate, although admittedly according to the copyright page it's a reissue of the 1977 edition. So, yeah, looks like it petered out around '77...
That's a very late entry, possibly the last one. Great book!
Nice . And the cover images at the....cool . I am a big fan of the Judge Dee books . Supper fan of KR, JGB and PHF . Alas i can only get them in the second hand book stores . And they are becomming harder to come by .
You're right Sylvan, but aren't they just lovely books🙂
@@JulesBurt 👍
Great video didn’t realise I had as many of those books until you put up the list at the the end .so many great books picked them up dirt cheap second hand back in the 80s mostly .
That was the time to get these although most are very reasonably priced if you're patient.
Jules, have you ever seen the Van Gulik USA released paperbacks from the 1970’s published by the University Of Chicago Press? Those are quite striking. I remember them really standing out on the Mystery section shelves at the bookstores back then. I was an idiot not to pick them up in my younger days, but to be honest they kind of intimidated me!
I have seen pictures of them. When I was putting my set together, some of the final books, I think, were only published in those USA editions. Even some of my later Panther editions took a long time to track down.
@@JulesBurt Jules, where did you get that plastic case that’s housing CRASH? I would like to get one for display purposes.
@ProfessorEchoMedia it was made as one of three different ones as a prototype from GW Acrylic. They make cases for action figures and I asked him to make some for paperbacks. it never got past the prototypes, sadly. They are great, I'd probably buy about fifty off him🙂
@@JulesBurt Ah thanks for the info. Too bad they aren’t readily available.
Do you have an up to date list of the books you're looking for?
There are many, some Penguins and Pans of course. Do you have spares?
@@JulesBurt It's less about that. I'm constantly out in book/charity shops so I'm happy to keep my eye out for certain things.