Shiff-era LECs w/o Monthly Letters
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1Sport1963
Starting a new thread here for clarity.
I corresponded with the Shiff family member who is the main proprietor of the LEC in its current dormant form (she runs the web site and conducts commerce for the club of their New Old Stock). As an aside she is a lovely lady, and a pleasure to do business with. According to her, Monthly Letters were not issued for the following titles:
Journeys Among the Dead (announcement/description card only)
In the Penal Colony (announcement/description card only)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (announcement/description card only)
Letter From a Birmingham Jail
The Declaration of Independence
I've done quite a bit research on the Macy-era years regarding Monthly Letters, and can spawn a separate thread with regards to which books did not have a specific Montly Letter associated with them, those books that had more than one, those Monthly Letters that had no specific book associated with them, and the one Monthly Letter that covered two books. So if anyone is interested, just sing out...
I corresponded with the Shiff family member who is the main proprietor of the LEC in its current dormant form (she runs the web site and conducts commerce for the club of their New Old Stock). As an aside she is a lovely lady, and a pleasure to do business with. According to her, Monthly Letters were not issued for the following titles:
Journeys Among the Dead (announcement/description card only)
In the Penal Colony (announcement/description card only)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (announcement/description card only)
Letter From a Birmingham Jail
The Declaration of Independence
I've done quite a bit research on the Macy-era years regarding Monthly Letters, and can spawn a separate thread with regards to which books did not have a specific Montly Letter associated with them, those books that had more than one, those Monthly Letters that had no specific book associated with them, and the one Monthly Letter that covered two books. So if anyone is interested, just sing out...
3Django6924
🎵 Likewise! 🎶
4elladan0891
Yes, please!
5Glacierman
That will definitely be of interest to many here.
7laotzu225
This is really an important undertaking. I've often hesitated to but an LEC volume being offered if there was no Monthly Letter accompanying it. So this research would be especially valuable.
8Sport1963
Reposting from a separate thread that seemed to have been lost in the shuffle:
This is a somewhat esoteric post regarding the LEC Monthly Letters. The numbering scheme between the MLs and the 1985 LEC Bibliography can be confusing to even the most seasoned collector. So here goes a summary of “points” pertaining to the Letters and associated titles.
MLs #1-4: no book associated with these letters as they preceded publication of “The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver”, LEC biblio #1.
MLs #63-64: associated with Burton’s “The Thousand Nights and a Night”, LEC biblio #59.
ML #65: Letter only, no title association.
ML #79, #81: associated with the “King James Holy Bible”, LEC biblio #73.
ML #113, #123: Letters only, no title association.
ML #124-125: associated with “Casanova’s Memoirs”, LEC biblio #116.
ML #137: Letter only, no title association.
ML #144-145: associated with “Pepys’ Diary”, LEC biblio #135.
ML #177: associated with “Emerson’s Poems”, LEC biblio #168
ML #178: associated with “The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan”, LEC biblio #167
Note on the above two titles: Biblio # 168 Emerson's "Poems" actually preceded Biblio #167 "Paul Bunyan" by a month: "Poems" issued in January 1945, "Paul Bunyan" issued in February 1945
I have never found a letter associated with the following three sets of “Evergreen Tales” titles, nor is there a ML# that logically fits with them, all ML #s are all sequentially accounted for during these years:
Saint George and the Dragon
Beauty and the Beast
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Tale (The) of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Sleeping (The) Beauty in the Wood
Ugly (The) Duckling
Bluebeard
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and the Beanstalk
ML #260-261: associated with “Arabian Nights Entertainments”, LEC biblio #254.
LEC biblio #459-465 were not used to bring the biblio #s in synch with the ML #466 in 1973.
ML #509 and biblio #509 were not used.
ML #559 associated with “the Old Man and the Sea”, LEC biblio #559
ML #559 associated with “The Black Swan”, ML #559 is mistakenly labelled, and should be labelled #563.
Lastly, the final two LEC titles, "Letter From a Birmingham City Jail" and "The Declaration of Independence", LEC biblio #596 and #597 respectively, do not have an associated letter.
My apologies if I have made any errors.
This is a somewhat esoteric post regarding the LEC Monthly Letters. The numbering scheme between the MLs and the 1985 LEC Bibliography can be confusing to even the most seasoned collector. So here goes a summary of “points” pertaining to the Letters and associated titles.
MLs #1-4: no book associated with these letters as they preceded publication of “The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver”, LEC biblio #1.
MLs #63-64: associated with Burton’s “The Thousand Nights and a Night”, LEC biblio #59.
ML #65: Letter only, no title association.
ML #79, #81: associated with the “King James Holy Bible”, LEC biblio #73.
ML #113, #123: Letters only, no title association.
ML #124-125: associated with “Casanova’s Memoirs”, LEC biblio #116.
ML #137: Letter only, no title association.
ML #144-145: associated with “Pepys’ Diary”, LEC biblio #135.
ML #177: associated with “Emerson’s Poems”, LEC biblio #168
ML #178: associated with “The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan”, LEC biblio #167
Note on the above two titles: Biblio # 168 Emerson's "Poems" actually preceded Biblio #167 "Paul Bunyan" by a month: "Poems" issued in January 1945, "Paul Bunyan" issued in February 1945
I have never found a letter associated with the following three sets of “Evergreen Tales” titles, nor is there a ML# that logically fits with them, all ML #s are all sequentially accounted for during these years:
Saint George and the Dragon
Beauty and the Beast
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Tale (The) of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Sleeping (The) Beauty in the Wood
Ugly (The) Duckling
Bluebeard
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and the Beanstalk
ML #260-261: associated with “Arabian Nights Entertainments”, LEC biblio #254.
LEC biblio #459-465 were not used to bring the biblio #s in synch with the ML #466 in 1973.
ML #509 and biblio #509 were not used.
ML #559 associated with “the Old Man and the Sea”, LEC biblio #559
ML #559 associated with “The Black Swan”, ML #559 is mistakenly labelled, and should be labelled #563.
Lastly, the final two LEC titles, "Letter From a Birmingham City Jail" and "The Declaration of Independence", LEC biblio #596 and #597 respectively, do not have an associated letter.
My apologies if I have made any errors.
9GusLogan
>8 Sport1963:
Thanks for this!
Thanks for this!
10rocklands
this is great info thank you. I'll be interested to know when shipping notes stopped as well?
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