Van Thal , Herbert ( Editor) - The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories - PB 1967 - Vintage Pan

First published in 1964, this is a 1967 third reprint of The Pan book of horror stories edited by Herbert van Thal. A collection of 19 short stories , a mixture of classic Victorian and edwardian short stories, as well as the best of 20th century tales...

Steinbeck, John - The Pearl - Vintage PB 1978 Edition ( First Published 1948)

When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and...

Murphy, Dervla - Tibetan Foothold - Vintage PB Pan Books 1969 - Travel Himalayas, Refugees

Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, "Full Tilt", is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan Foothold. For the young Irish woman, once she had got...

O'Connor, Frank - 3 Vintage PB - An Only Child, The Mad Lomasneys, Masculine Protest - Vintage Pan PB's 1970's

A lot of 3 vintage Pan paperback editions from Cork's Frank O'Connor, as follows - all with usual page tanning and marks tp covers, light creasing.  An Only Chilld, - an autobiography of his youth first published in 1961, this editoon 1970. Chipped...

Bluel, Hans Peter - Strength through Joy - Sex and Society in Nazi Germany - PB 1976

First paperback ediion, 1973 of Hans peter bleuel's study of sex and sexuality in third Reich Germany, and how the supposed purity of racil Aryan in all matters of morality and sexual mores was patetly false ( as it probably is in all systems of the...

Stephens, James - The Crock of Gold : Vintage 1965 Pan PB ed - Irish Fantasy Classic

Part fable, part fairy tale, partly a telling take on Irish and Celtic myth, this is the 1965 Pan PB edition of The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens ( 1882-1950) . When a crock of gold belonging to the elves of Gort na Cloca disappears, strange things...

Fleming, Ian - The Diamond Smugglers - Vintage Pan PB ED 1963

The Diamond Smugglers is a non-fiction work by Ian Fleming that was first published in 1957 in the United Kingdom and in 1958 in the United States. The book is based on two weeks of interviews Fleming undertook with John Collard, a member...

Edwards, Frank - Stranger than Science - Vintage Pan PB 1963- Unexplained Mysteries

A first UK & Pan edition, 1963, of the 1958 original of Frank Edward's Stranger than Science - billed as @incredible but true- a fascinating collection of the strangest marvels and mysteries on record - predictions of the future, strange...

Macken, Walter - Sunset on the Window Panes - Vintage Pan PB 1978

A 1978 edition of Walter Macken's Sunset on the Window Panes, first published in 1954.  Careless of the hurts he inflicts along the way, Bart O'Breen walks his own road, as proud as the devil and as lonely as hell.In the Galway village of Boola,...

Yeats, W.B - Selected Poetry - Edited by A Norman Jeffares - Vintage PB ED

Selected and with an introduction by A Norman Jeffares, this is the standard Selected poetry of Yeats, first published in 1962, and in this revised Papermac ( Pan Macmillan) edition, reprint 1970.  Includes the most notable poems from all his...

Coward, Noel - 3 Plays : Blithe Spirit, Private Lives & Hay Fever - Vintage Pan PB 1954

A 1954 Great Pan edition of three plays by Noel Coward, - Blithe Spirit, Private Lives, Hay Fever - all full text of the plays, unabridged.  Cover image shows Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings in the 1945 film version of Blithe Spirit.  In...

Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre - Vintage Pan PB Ed 1967 - Classic ( Unabridged)

Wallace, Edgar - The Square Emerald - Vintage Pan PB 1966 Ed

A body on Barnes Common, clutching in its lifeless fingers a Square Emerald, A young man just out of prison After serving a sentence for forgery.. add a smart woman detective and you have one of the most intriguing taes to come from the pen of a master...

Balchin, Nigel - Mine Own Executioner - Vintage Pan PB - Crime 1952

Hailed by John Betjeman as 'one of our dozen readable living writers of genius', Nigel Balchin was one of the best-known English novelists of the Second World War generation: few writers so tangibly convey the excitement and terror of Blitz-era Britain...

Steinbeck, John - Sweet Thursday - Vintage Pan PB 1963

In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything can happen. Returning to the scene of...

Christie, Agatha - The Secret of Chimneys - Vintage PAN PB 1961 Ed - Crime

Originally Published 1925, this is a reprint of the Pan mass market paperback edition. Light edgewear only,neatly written previous owners name toi title page, not ex library, no tape marks, spine solid, tiny chips of corner loss to extremities of first...

Macken, Walter - Seek the Fair Land - Irish Trilogy - Vintage Pan Paperback

The first novel in Walter Macken's loose  epic trilogy examining 300 years of Irish history  Set amidst the Cromwellian Invasions, Seek the Fair Wind begins in 1641. Dominick McMahon, a merchant by trade, has little appetite for fighting, yet...

Herriot, James - All creatures Great and Small ( Vintage 2 book Omnibus)

This is an omnibus edition , Pan Books UK, 1976 of the first two books of James Herriot's bestselling veterinary books, comprising of If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, as well as three chapters from Let Sleeping Vets Lie, all...

Le Carré, John - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Vintage Pan Pb edition Film Tie 1965 Cold War Classic

This is a afilm tie in edition, published  by Pan Macmillan UK, ( Pan number M107) , of John Le carré's classic The spy who came in from the Cold, first published in 1963. The film version starred Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar...

Reynolds, Quentin - Minister of Death - The Adolf Eichmann Story - Pan Vintage PB 1963

A vintage Pan paperback, revised edition 1963 ( 1st thus) of Minister of Death - The Adolf Eichmann story, an account of his life, his crimes against humanity during the Holocaust, has life and eventual capture in Argentina and  his trial in...

Doctorow, E.L - Ragtime - Vintage Pan PB Edition Classic

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War.Welcome...

Macken, Walter / The Scorching Wind - Vintage Pan Ed Ireland 1915-22 - War of Independence

Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan Uk, 1970's.  The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not...

Herriot, James - Vet In Harness ( Veterinarian Series Book 4 )

The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - now he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons...

Herriot, James - Let Sleeping Vets Lie ( Veterinarian Series Book 3 )

With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Time to meet yet more unwilling patients and a rich cast of supporting owners. Full of...