1961 Pan Books edition of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Goldfinger is an example of the type of publication for which Pan Books became popular.

Pan Books is an imprint of the German-based Macmillan Publishers which first became active in the 1940s. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (522x832, 88 KB)James Bond 007 - Goldfinger © 1961 Pan Books. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (522x832, 88 KB)James Bond 007 - Goldfinger © 1961 Pan Books. ... Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Goldfinger, published in 1959, is the seventh James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ... In the publishing industry, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ... Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. ...

The company was originally an independent United Kingdom-based publisher that was established in 1944 by Alan Bott [1]. A few years later, it was bought out by a consortium of several different publishing houses, including Macmillan and Hodder & Stoughton, among others. It became wholly owned by Macmillan in 1987. Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hodder Headline. ...

Pan specialized in publishing paperback fiction and, along with Penguin Books, was one of the first popular publishers of this format in the UK. A large number of popular authors saw their works given paperback release through Pan, such as Ian Fleming's James Bond series (Pan was the first UK publisher to issue paperback editions of these books), Leslie Charteris' The Saint, and Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise, as well as other authors such as Nigel Tranter, Jackie Collins, Dick Francis, and Scott Turow, to name a few. Pan also released paperback editions of works by classic authors such as Jane Austen. Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ... Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... Leslie Charteris (May 12, 1907, Singapore–April 15, 1993) was born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, to a Chinese father and an English mother. ... An artists conception of Simon Templar as seen on the cover of a 1983 omnibus edition collecting several early Saint books. ... Peter ODonnell (born 1920), British cartoon writer and author and creator of Modesty Blaise. ... Cover of the first Modesty Blaise novel. ... Nigel Tranter (November 23, 1909 – January 9, 2000) was a Scottish historian and an author. ... Jacqueline Jill Jackie Collins, British-born romantic novelist (born on October 4, 1937 in London, UK), and the younger sister of Joan Collins and elder sister of much-younger brother, William Collins, Jr. ... The cover of the Pan 1988 paperback edition of Bolt Dick Francis (born October 31, 1920) is a British jockey and author. ... A movie adaptation of Turows bestselling book Presumed Innocent was made in 1990. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, Pan Books editions were noted for their colorful covers which have made many of them collectables (particularly the Fleming and Charteris novels).

Although some sources indicate that Pan stopped publishing works in the late 1980s, the official Pan Macmillan website indicates that Pan Books is still operational, publishing award-winning titles as recently as 2002.

External links

• Imprint history at Panmacmillan.com
• Brief history of the founder of Pan Books, Alan Bott.