Monthly Letters and Sandglasses missing/desired

Would there be any interest in assembling a collection of scanned LEC Monthly Letters and Heritage Press Sandglasses (in PDF format) for group members to share? Perhaps via some kind of wiki or gallery or even through Google Docs.

For example, in my tiny collection I have the following and would be happy to scan and share:

- Heritage Press Beowulf: Number 5K, "The Scop with the Floy Floy"
- Heritage Press The Last Days of Pompeii: Number IX:21, "A Litter of Lyttons"
- LEC Oresteia: October 1961, Number 335, "Momsie Was a Heel"

And I'm missing these:

- Heritage Press Oedipus the King
- Heritage Press Satyricon
- LEC The Devil's Dictionary

Great idea! I would be happy to provide scans of any I have; alas, though I have many, I do not have the three you are looking for!

Yes indeed, a great idea. I have the following, which I would be very happy to contribute:

LEC Monthly Newsletter
December 1938 – No 115 - Les Miserables
June 1947 – No 191 - Penguin Island
June 1954 – No 251 - The History of Amleth, Prince of Denmark
January 1976 - No 495 – The Trial
May 1934 – No 60 – The Travels of Marco Polo
August 1953 – No 243 – The Three Musketeers

Sandglass
No i:25 – The Frogs and The Birds
No v:17 – The Ballad of Reading Gaol
No vi:21 – The Gods are a-thirst
No vi:32 – Omoo
No vii:30 – Billy Budd / Benito Cereno
No xiv:27 – On the Origin of Species

Miscellaneous (if anyone is interested)
Beowulf – EP (Notes from the archives)
How Green was my Valley – Reader’s Digest (The World’s best Reading)

OK I'm taking my few documents to the office today for scanning and will have them online somewhere tonight.

If anyone has had any success posting files on their personal WikiThing page, I'd love to hear how you did it.

A fellow devotee over on the FSD forum has just compliled this:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/97601

so may be able to help with the technicalities.

Please, if anyone is missing something, post it as I have too many to list. (I also have some duplicates and would be happy to send those to someone missing the LEC Monthly Letter.) Also, I know HuxleyTheCat has a copy of the very first LEC, Gulliver's Travels, and while I don't possess an actual copy of the Monthly Letter announcing that volume, I have a copy of th eLEC's publication, The First Fifty Monthly Letters, and would be happy to scan the reproduction therein.

I have scanned 3 documents, and they are currently available from my Google Documents account via these links:

Oresteia Montly Letter
http://bit.ly/ac9WZr

Last Days of Pompeii Sandglass
http://bit.ly/aZGpiP

Beowulf Sandglass
http://bit.ly/csm8jn

> Excellent - many thanks, particularly for the Beowulf.

It's a holiday here in the UK today, but I will check out the scanner that I know I have hanging around the office tomorrow and see what I can do to add to the collection.

This is great now I can see sellers on ebay selling inflated LEC with a copy of the newsletter hahaha. Maybe you should set a password and distribute it only to those here such as myself and company can acquire this via a private message to you. And as far as I know is EP still copyright holder of the LEC? Please educate me and also I think the LEC is operating in New York.

No, anyway this is great, thanks

This is the beginning of something wonderful. I can feel it. This thread is going to make us all albeit some of us famous :)

Ironjaw's caution is well-taken, I think. Would it be better to arrange private exchanges of files (rather than a common repository) based on requests and offers posted here?

I have now added the Sandglass for Lysistrata to my Google Docs, if anybody needs the link.

I have many Sandglasses - I try to make it a point to get them if I pay more than $5 for a Heritage Press book. I do have the one for Oedipus the King, which I'll try to scan over the weekend. I'll see what books I have that I either have or are missing LEC Newsletters or Sandglasses and put that up over the weekend, too.

I need the one for the Golden Cockerel if anyone has it...

I have added the Sandglass for Four Plays by Christopher Marlowe to my Google Docs.

Someone is currently selling the Matisse Ulysses on ebay right now, and the seller includes a little gem from the monthly letter:
"...we are informed that James Joyce, when shown the proofs of the plates, expressed delight with them. But we are not at all sure that you will share Mr Joyce's delight. If you do not like modern art, you will not like these illustrations. We earnestly hope that you will, however, refrain from writing us to the effect that you have a five-year old son who can draw better than Matisse."

I don't see the LEC Ulysses on eBay, so if you could point me to it I would like to take a look. I DO see five of the EP facsimiles of the LEC Ulysses with Matisse illustrations with one seller claiming his is NOT like the others in that his is a limited edition numbered 257 of 1000. Either he doesn't know that all of the EP facsimiles (including mine 8^P) are #257 of 1000, or he is misleading buyers. I'm just sayin'...

75% feedback

Geez. What is it about Ulysses auctions right now. The "LEC" version Chase is pointing to has NO pictures of the actual book. The pics in the eBay and on the Picasa sight the seller points you to have no pictures of Ulysses. Lots of great pictures of other books I'd like to have but that's beside the point...I'd be a little nervous with this one.

I agree, jveezer, this is a very strange posting as it has pictures of the LEC Lyrics of François Villon, At the Sign of Queen Pedauque, and the first LEC The Three Musketeers. The quote from the Monthly Letter is fun, though.

I found a link in a separate thread to the Google Books preview of Michael Bussacco's Heritage Press Sandglass Companion Book: 1960-1983. The preview shows pages 1-114; the remaining pages 115-559 are not available.

http://books.google.com/books?id=GhU4NHMJW3cC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&a...

I have added the Sandglass for The Song of Roland (VIII:19, "A Roland for an Oliver") to my Google Docs.

Dear Everybody,

This is to briefly introduce myself after quite some time of silent lurking, here in Ballarat, Australia. I discovered this group some time ago after being led to the LEC by an interest in wood engraving illustrations and the work of Agnes Miller Parker, who did some splendid LEC books, especially Gray's Elegy.

Anyway, my pocket has been sadly hurt (but only in a good way) by the many interesting comments and recommendations I have found in this and similar groups, especially from the expert and extensive knowledge of Django.

The upshot of all this is I now have quite a few LEC (and some HP) books, but not so many of the newsletters. So I would like to take part in this excellent plan.

I have the following LEC newsletters, with the information listed in the order: Title, Author, Artist, LEC Number, Date:

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard France Sauvage 96 1937
Salome Wilde Derain/Beardsley 104 1938
Les Fleur du Mal Baudelaire Epstein 117 1940
Vathek Beckford Angelo 166 1945
Madame Bovary Flaubert Brissaud 206 1950
The Faerie Queene Spenser Miller Parker 234 1953
Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand Brissaud 240 1954
Notre-Dame de Paris Hugo Lamotte 255 1955
The Book of Ballads - Kredel 394 1967
The Invisible Man Wells Mozley 395 1967
Gilgamesh - Amen 466 1974
The Odyssey of Homer Shaw (trans) Moser 521 1981


I also have the following Sandglass newsletters:

The Ring and the Book Browning Schultheiss 1949
Song of Songs Angelo 1935 (but a later Sandglass)
Walden Thoreau Nason 1939


And, while I am missing many, I would be particularly interested in scans of the following LEC newsletters:

The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver Swift King 1 1929
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater De Quincey Gay 14 1930
Tartuffe Moliere Steiner-Prag 16 1931
Aucassin and Nicolete Lang (trans) Preissig 19 1931
The Golden Ass Apuleius Goodman 37 1932
The Lyrics of Francois Villon Villon Simon 43 1933
Hamlet Shakespeare Gill 44 1933
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Fitzgerald Angelo 75 1935
A Sentimental Journey Sterne Tegetmeier 81 1936
Le Morte d'Arthur Malory Gibbings 83 1936
Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard Gray Miller Parker 106 1938
The Ring and the Book Browning Schultheiss 194 1949
Zadig Voltaire Sauvage 233 1952
The Poems of Robert Burns Burns Hassall 368 1965
Break of Day Colette Gilot 526 1983

Cheers, Ewan.

>23 EwanB:
"And, while I am missing many, I would be particularly interested in scans of the following LEC newsletters"

EwanB, I have many of these and am happy to scan them, but it will have to await until I return to my home--I will be out of town for the next week.

Thanks, Django. I will look forward to them. Are the ones I have of interest to anybody?

Cheers, Ewan.

>25 EwanB:

Vathek and the LEC Salome come definitely to mind, but I will have to wait until I get back home to check on some of the others.

Ah, silly me - inadvertently wandered off without posting mine. Well, I have over 50 books to tally, so I'll try to get that up over the next week or so. I do have the LEC of The House of the Dead, if anyone's interested.

Just acquired the LEC edition of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year, including the monthly letter. I have added it to my Google Docs here:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B...

Whoops, forgot twice. XD Well, I'm including Sandglasses and LEC Letters with my blog posts, and I'll eventually get them all up.

Also just got the LEC edition of Four Plays by Christopher Marlowe, and the Monthly Letter is here:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B...

>30 mboudreau:

mboudreau, how does one get this kind of a file sharing site? I have a lot of Monthly Letters that I need to share, but e-mailing is a pain. It would be much easier if I could upload them to a ftp site and everyone could just download them.

(or if anyone else knows of a good (free) file sharing site)

Django, I'm using Google Docs, which you get when you have a (free) Gmail account.

If you don't have a Gmail account, you can set one up at http://mail.google.com.

Once you have your Google account, you can create new docs (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, etc.) or upload documents that you've already created.

I've been uploading PDFs that I create on my own computer.

I can host them, too, Django. :) I just save mine as .jpg files and upload them to my blog.

Google Documents is really good. I recommend it Robert - just avoid converting the documents to google standard (you get an option box to click when you upload a document or pdf)

Thought I would share this with everyone. I found an original membership application for the LEC on an auction website which Gary Cooper apparently jointed. Very interesting
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9261501

Does anyone have the Monthy Letter for Toilers of the Sea? I'd love a scan, if possible...

>36 jveezer:

Yes, I'll scan it tomorrow when I get to the office.

If anyone happens to have the Monthly Letter for the LEC Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, I'd be grateful for a scan.

>38 mboudreau:

I can't get to it until Tuesday, but I'll do it then. We need to have a central clearing-house where all can download these.

Chris or Jerry--any volunteers?

Yea, we keep talking about it and I keep slacking on it on my end. :-( Especially after some of you have really helped me out in getting me some missing letters. I owe you all a bunch of scans I have...

I think Jerry was planning on it...or I can, either way..I could start getting to it late next week or early the following.

At the least I would love to link to it from books and vines, but I am happy to store them there also, I have plenty of space. Why don't a couple of us PM each other off line and figure this out?

I have one problem with this. I don't want eBay sellers to get hands on these and inflate their prices which is what I think will happen. Maybe we can incl. A circle of trust get one person here to create a list and then we can PM that person for these letters. Maybe I am paranoid but over at EP it seems a lot if eBay sellers are watching the threads and using much if info in their listings

I have only a few of the monthly letters, but I too would be happy to scan them. At the least, it might save the members who do have many monthly letters some work.

As I've said before, I'd be happy to host them - I just need the images. ^_^ I did announce it on my blog a couple months back, so I can't be that secretive about it. I don't get a massive amount of hits at the Imagery - around a 1000 a month, and it's mostly from here. I tend to make my images a bit on the small side, so I think that may dissuade eBay sellers from printing them. We'll just have to see!

>43 WildcatJF: your probably right. Sorry but I try not to visit your site (which is the reason I forgot that you host the HP and LEC letters) as it will entice me to pick the said volume ending in a panic spending spree which is not that good for me right now

I promise to start getting Wildcat some of the LEC letters.... :-) Soon as I am back in town.

44) No offense taken - my site has that effect on people it seems. :p

45) I'll look forward to them!

Jerry, I may be too dense to remember, but is there an ftp address we can use to upload the scans to your George Macy imagery site? Trying to send 200 dpi full-sie jpg's as an e-mail attachment is very cumbersome--especially when we are talking about multiple letters.

Likewise, did you say you derez the scans on your site? I think all of us who want to exchange scans would prefer to keep them full-sized.

Maybe we can use dropbox?

If you have dropbox I can create a shared folder to use to upload the letters.

You can read about it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/19

47) At the present time, I don't have a FTP address for the blog. I don't think Wordpress offers such a thing for free users.

The reasoning behind my letter size comment is to allow them to not take up a heap of space on my blog, but still be readable. I'll check my dimensions in a moment to tell you what I save them as.

48) I'll look into that - that may be a better alternative than e-mails.

This is just to let everyone interested that I have created a shared folder which make sharing these letters easier. I talked about it here much more thoroughly. One person has already signed up and I have incl. The Canterbury Tales letter that I got from Robert (Django - hope that was alright with you) in the folder. I will in the weekend incl. some letters and prospectuses I have from the 30s.

I would really recommend joining dropbox. It is much more of an easier way to share these than sending emails to each other.

Oh and by the way I forgot or did not realise that I actually get 250 mb upgrade when you sign up. I am not sure if its only me who gets the upgrade or both users do. (I am sure someone will clarify), I am so sorry if someone is mislead. I did not intend to mislead. I just want to share these letters with LEC devotees and feel its way easier this way.

Anyway I would really recommend anyone interested to join by sending me a private PM with their email.

We can then use this folder and update it regularly with better scans of these letters. Please do chip in.

50) That's great - I'll PM you shortly.

Do you wish for me to utilize your letters for my blog, Ironjaw? You seem most concerned about sellers getting their hands on them, and while I don't want to remove mine from my blog or alienate anyone who wishes to do the same, I will also respect people's requests to NOT use them. Perhaps I should ask everyone that question - who doesn't mind me setting up an LEC Monthly Letter archive at my blog, and is willing to contribute?

>51 WildcatJF: I don't mind but what do think about having lower res versions in your blog and we could have the higher resolutions in dropbox that can eventually can be printed then we avoid sellers incl them in their listings. It is just an idea. I think everyone should voice their opinion and take a decision. As we are gradually becoming members of "The LEC Ring of Trust" I cannot take such a decision alone.

I am also looking forward to the Heritage Press letters from you.

52) I've been doing lower res on my blog in the first place, so I suppose I'll just keep doing it. Of course, I'd have to rescan everything for Dropbox, but I can try to do that when I find time. :) I'm downloading it right now.

>52 ironjaw:

I do like the idea of the sharing of these be "By Invitation Only."

I uploaded the first batch of material, but I couldn't put in the folders--only the files they contain. Is there something I need to know about doing this, as each Letter requires 4 scans (minimum), and it's going to get very cluttered soon.

Robert, have you downloaded dropbox application? From your email I believe you use a Mac. Install the application and you will get a "DropBox" folder in your Home folder which you can see here:



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Ironjaw- I installed Dropbox and everything seems fine. I'll rescan my letters as quickly as I can. I picked up everything I didn't have and will resize them for my blog's dedicated page before hosting. Thanks again for doing this!

Ironjaw, your new George Macy ephemera folder on Dropbox (named LEC Monthly Letters) works great. Thanks.

Your welcome kdweber!!

I just though it would be a good idea to issue out some rules for joining our dropbox "LEC Montly Letters" folder in order to avoid any Tom, Dick or Harry joining out of the blue. I would like to avoid a situation where I get a request and I don't know the person/usename. Do we need to vote in consensus or a "recommend by current member invite" ect. I would really welcome the current members to voice their opinions, especially with the language:

The Dropbox LEC Ring of Trust Rules

1. "Memberhip By Invitation Only."
2. Must be a member of Librarything (LT) for at least 3 months.
3. Must be an active contributer to discussion in either George Macy Devotees; Easton Press Collectors; Fine Press Forum; Franklin Library Collectors or Folio Society Devotees.
4. The LEC Monthly Letters are for education purposes only under fair usage and cannot be used for commercial gain: eBay, ABEbooks or any online or offline listing.

Purpose

The older editions of the Limited Editions Club (LEC), i.e., 1929 - 1985 were limited to 1500 copies and came with a Monthly Letter providing a rare glimpse of the background of the book incl. production and typesetting information, etc. These Monthly Letters are out of print and unobtainable in the conventional sense. They can only be acquired on the second hand market, e.g., eBay or ABEbooks and given their fragile nature, are deteriorating every second.

In the interest of what is the last testament of fine letterpress literature, we the People of the Dropbox LEC Ring of Trust, hereby set motion a series of events to save these fragile, foxed, musty, discoloured, sometimes ignored and discarded, Monthly Letters so that they are glorified - reinstated into their rightful position - to accompany their respectful brethren and other half: the LEC books - to be finally respected, cherished, and be able to pass down the valuable information contained in them to the respective George Macy Devotee.

In which we hail to thee! The LEC Monthly Letter

Signed (on behalf of the members of The Dropbox LEC Ring of Trust)

Join
To join the shared Dropbox "LEC Monthly Letters" you have to send a private PM with your email address to me and will in return be sent an invite as long as you fulfill and accept the above rules.

Edit: for updating the rules and language, grammar, etc.

"in the convetional sense. They can only be acquired on the second hand market, e.g., eBay or ABEbooks and given their fragile nature, are deteriating every second."

should read "conventional" and "deteriorating"

"to accompany their respectful brotherin and other half"

should read "brethren"

"In which we hail to thee! The LEC Montly Letter"

should read "Monthly"

Sorry, the proofreader in me can't let typos pass by! Otherwise, I think this is a good approach, but I think even 6 months is a little too long a qualifying period. I think we all know who are the legitimate George Macy Devotees and we trust your discretion.

edited to correct my own typos!

Dear Robert, thanks!

It went too fast when I was typing. I am so used to my Mac's built-in dictionary to mark out words I have misspelled that when writing from work on a PC I feel uneasy. I appreciate this very much.

I'm fine with that, ironjaw. :)

Agree, sounds great!

I have added 3 Monthly Letters and 5 Sandglasses, all in PDF format, to the DropBox folder:

LEC Monthly Letters:
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
Marlowe, Four Plays

Heritage Press Sandglasses:
The Song of Roland
Beowulf
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii
Marlowe, Four Plays

>64 mboudreau: Thanks Mike!

A little question for everyone. Mike recommended that the letters should be listed after book title or author instead of year. It's an excellent recommendation. What do you think?

I use year because it's easier for me to know which years I have and missing. I also follow the checklist of Bill Majure

http://www.majure.net/LECLISTOFTITLES.htm

I like title and author rather than year/

>66 Django6924: agree

mboudreau - Would you mind if I used your letters on my blog? I'll happily credit you for them.

>66 Django6924: But what about the cases where the LEC republished the same work? I think we need the year in the title as well.

>68 WildcatJF:
WildcatJF: no problem

>69 kdweber: Exactly that was reason I used year but I think it would easier to add (year) at the end.

I'll try to get some letters up this afternoon, everyone.

Okay, the five I've had on my blog are up for you to look at. I'm curious as to where I stuffed away my scan of the LEC Szyk Canterbury Tales, though. I'll have to pull them back off of the site and get them up later. Anyway, I've put up:

The Innocent Voyage
The House of the Dead
The Shaving of Shagpat
Tartuffe and the Would-be Gentleman
Argonautica
The Canterbury Tales - Added 9/15/2011, although I notice we had some smaller files on there - I'll let you be the judge of what to keep, ironjaw.

Question - I noticed all of the images on Dropbox are actually a bit smaller than the ones I've been hosting on my blog, which made me wonder how I should deal with the new images you all have given me permission to use. I've got two ideas - watermarking or rescaling their resolution to be smaller. Any others you can think of?

I received The Book of Ruth. It is absolutely beautiful. The illustrations by Arthur Szyk are wonderful. Does anyone have the LEC Monthly Letter for this?

This is just to let everyone know that I tried to bid for the first 15 Prospectus on eBay yesterday but it ended up selling for $203.50. And way behold today there is a seperate listing for the first LEC prospectus for $45.

>74 ironjaw: I'll try and post a copy on the Dropbox site later today.

>76 kdweber: Thanks, I just got it.

Btw, Robert can you see this folder on your homefolder:

Just repeating in case it wasn't noticed:

Question - I noticed all of the images on Dropbox are actually a bit smaller than the ones I've been hosting on my blog, which made me wonder how I should deal with the new images you all have given me permission to use. I've got two ideas - watermarking or rescaling their resolution to be smaller. Any others you can think of?

Just to let everyone know that there have been updates to the LEC Monthly Letters folder. I am sure someone who uploaded it will announce it shortly but Monthly Letters for Henry IV and Macbeth have been added.

Oh and Robert, I haven't see any file name "RobertTest" in the folder. We have at the moment 18 Monthly Letters and HP sandglasses. There is no files in your shared folder "LEC_Sandglass_scans"

I apologize Faisel--I've been scrambling the past few weeks since the film I was going to be doing this fall was abruptly cancelled. I'll try to sort out the Dropbox issue this week.

>80 Django6924:

Robert! Not need to apologize, I have just been worried that you did not have access.

Only a lack of access to gainful employment.....:-(

Thanks Faisel!

I added:

Dubliners
Pygmalion
Martian Chronicles
Streetcar Named Desire
Epictetus
Metamorphoses

So I added some 15 ML, and will add another seven during the week (Mont-St-Michel et Chartres, The Birds, Wilde's Earnest, Verne's Moon, St-Augustine's, Bligh, New Arabian Nights).
I recommend the reading of the short paper on photogravure process in the Dubliners' folder.

I would be happy to have the following ML: Austen's PandP, Aucassin and Nicolete (Busywine?), Walden, Cowley.

I have just received a truckload of LEC, including Mont St-Michel and Chartres. I find the photogravures simply stunning! The pictures have a soft texture while being extremely sharp. No digital camera can have this amazing aspect! Myself a former user of view cameras, I could not take off my eyes from the pictures.

Since it is considered to be a cheap LEC I recommend any LEC collector to get one! I got mine one week ago on Ebay for $25 in VG+ condition. It has a whole chapter on the love story between Aucassin and Nicolete.

Maretzo, I have Aucassin and the Cowley and will scan them today.

The photogravure process is indeed remarkable for the reproduction of photography as well as colored artwork such as watercolors. It was used during George Macy's tenure for the colorful illustrations for The Cloister and the Hearth, Un Vie and others, and most extensively during the Shiff years for reproduction of B&W photography. For reproduction of silver-based photography, nothing I've ever seen is quite as good.

>84 Maretzo: Thanks Meretzo!! I saw the Dropbox updates.

>85 Django6924: Robert, it's been a while. Hope your alright? Best wishes.

To everyone: Have a merry Christmas and a good New Year 2012!

>86 ironjaw:

Thanks Faisel! I have been very busy over the past month, thankfully because of a big work project, thee first I've had since January. I just finished it yesterday, and have decided to take the time between now and the New Year to catch up on personal business--including providing a batch of Monthly letters to the Dropbox (provided I've figured out how to do it correctly--have any6 of my postings gone through?) I also owe busy wine the pictures and description of one of my favorite books--Dante's La Vita Nuova which I'll try to get up in the next day or so.

I hope everyone has a happy holiday, whatever faith you follow, and that the New Year will bring peace and, if not prosperity, a sense of reassurance that things will be better.

Hi all, I will also try to post some monthly letters over the holiday. Btw, welcome back Robert!

Aye, nice to see you back, Django.

I put up all of my LEC letters that I currently have into Dropbox, just to say. If people want Sandglasses, I can get those going in the near future.

I see a number where the folder is created and the pdf file, but when I open the pdf, nothing is there. See Dubliners as an example. In the case of Dubliners, the Photogravure.pdf is there and shows correctly, but not the monthly letter.

Meant to ask, do others have the same issue?

I can see the monthly letter properly

odd, it opens, but no text...on a iMac

I'm not sure I know how to use Dropbox properly. I've uploaded files which I can see when I launch the website app, but I'm not sure if others can access them. I just uploaded the Letters for Aucassin and Nicolette and Cowley's The Exiles Return for Meretzo (and anyone else who needs them). If others here can see them let me know--and if not, then perhaps someone can tell me how to do it.

>94 Django6924: Robert, why did you post the files in the LEC_Sandglass_scans folder instead of the LEC Monthly Letters folder?

Well, when I was setting the folders up, I thought it was just going to be LEC Monthly Letters, then I realized many needed Sandglass, so to make my life easier I just put everything in one folder--except I don't think the 2 I just uploaded went into either. I guess I need to watch the tutorial, as it is less intuitive than it seems.

No, they're in the Sandglass folder. I can see both the Aucasssin and Nicolette and The Exiles Return pdf's.

Actually, it's the LEC_Sandglass folder.

I suppose I could separate them, just need to figure that out.

>91 busywine:+93

It opens on my Mac correctly, but I will delete it and put it again.
It can be opened with Acrobat 7 and later, not earlier, this may be creating the issue.

Robert there is already a Sandglass folder in the LEC Monthly Letters folder. In your folder LEC_Sandglass_scans there are only two sandglass files:







If you still have problems, I would suggest that I delete you from Dropbox and invite you again as your still listed as "joined" but not complete

>100 ironjaw:

OK, that's probably the best solution--sorry about the confusion.

All - I tend to lurk in this forum more than I post, and I haven't read this thread in awhile. But I just caught up on the posts and I have to say, the librarian in me is so incredibly impressed by your efforts as a group to create this private archive. It's always a beautiful thing to me when people take the time and care to preserve something out of sheer passion.

Your right, beatlemoon. I'm very impressed, all I can do is convey my appreciation to everyone who keeps on sharing.

Even via the web (not my desktop), opening Dubliners, Streetcar, Steppenwolf, etc., open empty files. Other older ones work just fine.

Martian Chronicles pages 2-7 shows just fine, but there is no page 1 or 8.

Don't get it, I will investigate asap!
Works fine with me.

I will save them again and sync.
Check again in few hours.

Martian Chronicles is fine I see all pages both with preview and abobe acrobat. And i'm running Mac OSX Leopard

strange, text shows on my pc, but on the mac, they open empty :-(

Hi all,
I have now joined the drop box group. I am a new collector, but I hope to add some letters and sandglasses, I just have to catalog which I have and which are missing. Do you print these out and keep them with the books, in which case does one have to be careful about printing on archival paper? I have noticed in at least one of the 70's volumes, that the staples used in the newer inferior style of letter were starting to rust and had marked the ffeps, something to wqtch out for and maybe destaple?

Just added: Verne's Moon and Earth, Birds, Carson's Sea, Confessions, Adams, South Seas, New Arabian Nights, Wilde's Being Earnest

I've had a go with: At the sign of the Queen Pedauque; 'Dead Souls'; L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. I don't have many (yet) pre 1960, thereafter perhaps a further 50 or so.
I am having trouble with some e.g 'The Prince and the Pauper' - I can see the file and its size, but there is no content shown when I open it. Any ideas?

Hi Starkimarki,

I have no idea, it works on some computers and not on others. It is usually ok with Mac and Leopard.
The problem may occur with the combined files, and the size file reduction, so I put the separate pdfs in the same folder.
Please try opening the 4 separate files inside the folder Prince and Pauper again in a while?
What about the pdf that are not in folders: 1959 The Birds, 1966 Verne and 1975 Voyage? Do they open properly?
The only remaining option is to put them in jpg format..

Hi Maretzo, you are a star! The Prince and Pauper works now. 1966 Verne is also good. May well be to do with the combined files, I am noticing a trend ( on MAC 10.6.6).
Thanks Mark

MAC 10.5.8 here

I am looking for LEC Monthly Letters 466, Chekhov's Short Stories, and 468, White Fang, to theoretically complete a set matching the Bibliography. If anyone has information that could help me locate them, it would be appreciated. I'll go to the image file, to see if I can fill in missing ones when I get approved several months from now. Most of my letters prior to #150, Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, are bound and may not be scannable.

I'll put shortly:

1986 Diary of a Country Priest
1979 Singer's Gentleman from Cracow and The Mirror
1982 Three Penny Opera.

I would like to have the 3 following Commentaries from the Shakespeare set:

Timon of Athens
The Tempest
Pericles.

Within the next weeks, I will put all the commentaries that I have in the Dropbox.

I haven't been in to see the changes for a couple of months but the good thing is we have many letters, the bad thing is that we slightly have a problem. A certain individual deleted the folder "_Heritage Press" 8 other files.

We are also missing the files "_Updates" and "_Readme" somehow they are also deleted.

So I tried restoring the files that were deleted by a member i.e., _Updates.txt file and _Readme.txt file and the folder _Heritage Press that had the sandglasses but alas I could not. They are lost. I don't know why someone would delete these files but I am contacting the individual member who did this to ask why.

I am therefore asking the members of this group to upload the sandglasses they have again. I will create a new folder again named _Heritage Press. I don't understand why someone would delete them. If this happens again I will have to disable deletion (so that I as an admin only have that access). Maybe this is the safer option?

Perhaps. I know that I got a little confused how Dropbox worked when I was playing with it and accidentally took a file or folder on mistake from the entire database, but I put it back immediately upon discovering that. I'm sure it was a mistake, but if you don't mind overseeing the database, I think making it impossible for others to cut or erase items would be a good idea.

Agreed--I also have problems working with Dropbox, and think it best for just the administrator to have delete privileges.

I'm sure it was just an accident. I agree it's best if only the admin has delete privileges.

> I do not know if the issue with the missing files was solved, my dropbox has always shown all the files, including Heritage, updates and readme. I have just noticed that the extension are .rtf and not .txt. That why maybe the PC do not see the files. I will try to save again the files as .doc (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!).

I would love to have the 3 missing ML of my Shakespeare set:

Timon of Athens
The Tempest
Pericles.

Could a good and kind soul put them in the dropbox?

Oops! I promised I would do that. I can do so...but, I am out of town until Thursday, so I can get to them then. There is a slight chance I can get my son to do it while I am gone on Sunday!

Maretzo I could not fix the issue, the files are deleted and I can't restore them but if you do have them and the Heritage files please do save them and upload them.

> 123 I would be very glad, but no need to hurry, they have been waiting since 1939-1940!

> 124 They are in the dropbox and all files are up to date! You should see the both .doc et .rtf files. I did not touch the Heritage folder, since I have only LEC. If it does not work, I can send the files by email.

The Monthly Letters used different typefaces. For the first 10-15 years it was usually the typeface used for printing the book it accompanied--although the first year or so the Monthly Letters were not devoted to a particular book, but Club news in general.

Since my copy is missing the ML, I do't know what typeface is used in the book.

> 122, these have been added under the '1939 Shakespeare Set' folder.
Timon of Athens
The Tempest
Pericles

BTW, I still could use quite a few. Here is set one of two. Any of these would be very appreciated!!! Please. :-)


Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Golden Ass
Light of Asia
Francis of Assisi
Northanger Abbey
Religo Medici
Sartor Resartus
Anton Chekhov (short stories)
Cicero
The Prairie
A Christmas Carol
Sherlock Holmes
The Gambler/Notes from the Underground
Sister Carrie
In Praise of Folly
The Great Gatsby
Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
House of the Seven Gables
Green Mansions
In the Penal Colony
Of the Nature of Things
Spoon River Anthology
The Prince
Typee
The Captive Mind
The Art of Love
The Oregon Trail
Samuel Pepys
Plutarch's Lives
Gordon Pym
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Shelley
The Gentleman from Cracow
Tennyson (poems)
Walden
Anna Karenina (1932)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Tom Sawyer (Benton)
The Age of Innocence
Ethan Fromme
The Castle of Otranto
The House of Mirth
The Ballad of Reading Gaol

I believe I have the Gentleman from Cracov, but I am not at home, I will check and put it next weekend.

>129 busywine: I have the Typee, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard and Sister Carrie (Norwalk reprint) Sandglasses if it's the Heritage Press one's you're missing.

I didn't realize they did an edition of Spoon River. I'll have to add that to my wishlist.

Sorry, meant LEC's! Though I am sure many would like the HP one's also!

Please be careful when deleting, as an administrator I can't remove delete privileges from users. Dropbox does not support this.

Thank to Chris for the three missing LEC of the Shakespeare set. I will try to run an OCR and if it works, will rework the 37 LEC to prepare a Blurb book. It would be nice to have the presentation prospectus, in case someone has it!

I added:

Singer - Gentleman from Cracow and the Mirror
Bernanos - Diary of a Country Priest

> 134, thanks for the Singer!

Still odd for me....some, like Maretzo's Cracow opens and prints perfectly for me (on my mac)...others like Kafka, just open blank and nothing I can do seems to solve it.... :-(

I will put another file "1984 Kafka B" in a moment, so please try this one. If it does not work, I will scan again.

Yea!!! Whatever you did, it worked. Thank you!!! I had the same problem with The Iceman Cometh, all blanks. :-(

I'll change it. Let me finish the dinner first ;)

Thanks! Out of curiosity, what causes that (do you know?). Take your time, enjoy dinner!

Some of the files, being too large, have been optimized in order to reduce the size. Most likely, access to the files was then possible only with some specific versions of the Adobe. (I think!).

So I started word processing the LEC of the Shakespeare set. As said above, I intend to make a Blurb book that will be made available to anyone interested. I will add some HR pictures to document the LEC. I would like to have the Prospectus in any form (photocopies, pdf, pictures) as an introduction to the book.
Busywine is welcome to prepare a preface...

I am interested in sharing my LEC ML with the Macy devotees. Also I have about a dozen of duplicates, and If there is anyone who have dupes as well, we could have an exchange.

Thanks,
Vladimir

skyschaker at hotmail.com

I am not quite sure how to read other people dropboxes with ML PDFs, if anyone gives me an idea, it could be appreciated!
V

>144 skyschaker:/143 Welcome to the group and Dropbox. If you have duplicates that you wish to sell, please send me a list. My email is on my profile.

Hi, I recently bought my first LEC, Salammbo. Unfortunately it came without the monthly letter. Is there one in your collaborative library?

>146 rdurie:

If there isn't one there already, I'll put one in this weekend.

>146 rdurie:

rdurie, I'm very sorry, but I can't find my Salammbo Monthly Letter; I thought it was tucked inside the fep, but I went through every page of the book and couldn't find it.

If I run across it, I will e-mail you.

Speaking of missing Monthly Letters, I can't find mine for Gone With the Wind, and when I downloaded the one in the Dropbox, the pages were blank; is this anyone else's experience as well?

I believe I put it myself in the box, so I will put it again. There is an issue when the pdf is downsized.

> 148 thanks for your efforts, Django, maybe it will turn up.

Django: try again to open the ML Gone with the Wind, it should work now!

Just to say, for everyone who's been trying to aid me with Monthly Letters, I got Dropbox installed on my laptop today, so I'll get those all up over the weekend. Thanks for your help!

Finally picked up a copy of Kwaidan (a perfect copy that even leccol would buy). Sadly, missing a copy of the Monthly Letter. Does anyone have a copy that they could post on Dropbox?

Will post after Wednesday unless someone beats me to it!

ironjaw,
I am interested in participation of the ML Drop Box pool. I have quite a bunch of them, at least a hundred or more, so hopefully I can contribute to the Drop Box.

skyschaker

Hi just send me a private pm with your email and delete the one here on this thread due to spam bots

Added Pepys' Diary's LEC letter to the Dropbox!

Great, thanks, I needed that.

I added quite a number of MLs about Shakespeare's plays. My scanner is a very simple one, so the usual MLs are 1-2 mm wider than it can accommodate... What a pity! But the Bard's MLs are a bit narrower so there are many new MLs now.

So moving data from my MLs to the Dropbox will become quite a project: I have to copy them at work on Zerox, and then copy the copies to DB. Slowly, it may be done.

I would welcome users here to take a separate copy/backup of the ML folder just in case and burn it on a cd or dvd. Remember that Dropbox is a sync service and not a backup place, which means if someone were to accidentally delete their ML folder it would get deleted in everyone's accounts, incl. mine as administrator!!!!

We've all come so far, no need in starting again from the beginning.

No, I am not deleting. I am adding the Monthly letters. But you are right: I will keep all ML on a separate Flash drive and will update it regularly. So no worries, we will not loose the valuable pages, there is always a back up.

FYI here's a list of the numbers of SandGlasses published:
http://books.google.com/books?id=avputwHlpYoC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=dr...

I got Turgenev's The Torrents of Spring LEC today with the letter and announcement. I see that that one is missing, so I'll get it added when I get the chance (probably next weekend).

Could anyone who has been involved in this project perhaps be so kind and post a summary of this project and also technical details about how to use it for persons like me who aren't so used to FTP and similar (i.e. barely computer literate).

(PS. I use a Mac - if that means any difference.)

I have all Shakespeare letters, perhaps a hundred monthly letters, as well as a few goodies, such as George Macy and Sid Shiff letters, marketing pamphlets and, for example "With the advice of G.B.S." and "Exhibition of Drawings for the engravings by John Farleigh" that came together with "Back to Methuselah".

>165 parchment:
You need to open a DropBox account. It is free. Then you need to contact the ML LEC admin, ironjaw . He is present in this thread. He may provide you with sharing feature that will allow you to see use and append files to this folder. You can certainly do it from your Mac. Then you need to scan the Shakespeare's MLs and upload them to the appropriate folder. It will be VERY easy, it is like a copy function, from your Mac folder to DropBox folder. Good luck and thanks for your plans to participate in a project.

Yes it's easy if you send me a private message incl. your email I will send you an invite to DropBox and our ML shared folder then you can take it from there. We usually scan the letters into a pdf file as they are easier to handle but you can incl. them in fx. jpg file. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me. I'm using a Mac also!

Oh an btw we want to scan the letters in high or higher resolution quality as possible.

I regret to inform that over the last 6 to 8 months we have lost some material in the LEC Monthly Letters folder. From what I can see is that from my post above #100 the Heritage Press folder incl. all the pdf scans within have been deleted and there is no way I can recover them.

So I have created another folder called Heritage Press Sandglass and I welcome members here to upload again what they have.

I found this on Ebay and immediately thought of this thread:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sandglass-from-Heritage-Press-Book-Collection-A-total-of...

If somebody here really wants them, let me know. I don't need them, but if there are no bids by the end, I might be convinced to spend $10, just for the fun of looking through all of them.

That sounds great. I think $10 is not much to pay for such a large collection, I would have gone for it if I was in the US

In some way or another I seem to have screwed it up. I thought that I managed to install dropbox correctly, and managed to open the monthly letters that were already in it. But when I had scanned one of my monthly letters and saved it in pdf format things went wrong - I really don't know what happened. The dropbox icon at top right on my screen disappeared, and the Monthly Letter folder is now on my desktop but not in dropbox. I thought that I might try to uninstall dropbox and try to install it again, but didn't succeed. I hope that I haven't screwed anything up.

Have you tried to restart your mac? Also I think for dropbox to work you also have to restart your browser. Try again by logging on the dropbox website and see if everything is alright. Btw when you do install dropbox it asks you where you want it to place the dropbox folder - maybe you chose something else than the standard recommended positon?

I've uploaded (I hope) pdf scans of the following Monthly Letters:

1939 Back to Methuselah (Shaw)*
1949 The Ring and the Book (Browning)
1961 Monsieur Beaucaire (Tarkington)

*Methuselah's illustrator John Farleigh sent Shaw a set of preparatory drawings for the book. The drawings and Shaw's scribbled comments were reproduced in 'With the advice of G.B.S.', a 16 page booklet that came with the Monthly Letter. I'll try to upload this too.

Ooh, excellent. I can use the Beaucaire. :)

>175 featherwate:

Awesome! (To coin a phrase.) That's great featherwate--my Monthly Letter did not include this booklet, and I'd be very interested in seeing it. Farleigh was a fantastic artist and I wish the LEC had used him more often..

>175 featherwate: Perfect timing. I just bought a copy of Monsieur Beaucaire in near perfect condition including the original glassine but no Monthly Letter. I like the double slipcase which really protects the book well.

>170 aaronpepperdine: I see the collection only attracted the one bid. Are we to congratulate you? :)

Lately I uploaded about 25+ Monthly letters and MLs for Shakespeare set. It looks like it is a huge project. My scanner is a tiny tube, and I can scan only A4 pages; the MLs are a bit wider. I need to scan them at work on standard page and then scan the newly created pages. Ironjaw, as the admin of this Dropbox huge LEC super folder you may need to erase some JPG files that are actually the dupes. They are located at the end of the list.

Hi All; Went through a couple of my bookshelves and am missing the following LEC Monthly Letters (four more shelves to go through, but will keep this a couple at a time!). If anyone has any of the following, please let me know!!! I have plenty of others, so let me know if you need some, especially not already in the dropbox.

The Pickwick Papers
Education of Henry Adams
Aesop's Fables
Three Corner Hat
Golden Ass
Aquinas
The Birds
The Frogs
Little Flowers of Assisi
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Droll Stories
Flowers of Evil (1940/1947)
Soldiers and Civilians
Religio Medici
Pilgrims Progress
Thousands Nights and a Night
Brothers Karamazov
Camille (1937)
The Cricket and the Hearth
Roxana
15 Decisive Battles
Youth, Typhoon
Troilus and Cressida
Discovery and Conquest of Mexico
Great Gatsby
Beggar's Opera
Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Sister Carrie
Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dombey and Son
A Christmas Carol
Lord Jim
The Prairie
Robinson Crusoe
Cicero
Short Stories of Chekhov
Sartor Resartus

Beggar's Opera is now in the dropbox.

In case someone has the ML for the Poems of Senghor, I'll appreciate very much!

>180 skyschaker: sky can you scan at 90%? Usually there is a setting in the scanner where you can select a scan rate below 100% so try 90% or 80% and try to scan at the highest quality.

Just got access to the dropbox to take advantage of the wonderful work everyone has done. Thanks to everyone and especially ironjaw for managing this. I need to double check if I have any Monthly Letters that aren't already included there.

But I do need:

Undine
Les Misérables
Swann's Way
Uncle Remus
The Wanderer: Le Grand Meaulnes
Cape Cod
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice

Oh yeah, and...

The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Memoirs of Saint-Simon
The Magic Mountain

Pepys is in there, and I fixed the Page 3 duplicate problem it had before. I also added The Torrents of Spring this morning.

We do seem to have some duplicates, though. There's two folders for the Szyk Canterbury Tales, and there's floating files of the 1931 Tartuffe and the '47 Penguin Island that seem unnecessary considering there are folders with those files for both.

>178 kdweber: I like the double slipcase which really protects the book well.

Yes, it's a good arrangement. I've only four or five books which still have it in place, worst luck. Monsieur Beaucaire is one of them and both its chemise and its outer case seem to be particularly sturdy. Mind you, at only 51 years old it is the youngest of them!

182> You added Threepenny Opera (which is great), but not Beggar's Opera!

> 177
I've added pdf files of the John Farleigh/GBS booklet to the Back to Methuselah Monthly Letter folder. The artwork has reproduced slightly darker than in the original, but making it lighter rendered the accompanying text almost invisible. Fortunately there is not a lot of detail in the sketches: they are about form and relationship.

>189 featherwate:

Thank you featherwaite--what a great addition to my favorite LEC edition of Shaw's plays! I wish my copy had this included, but at least now I can enjoy it thanks to your generosity.

Shaw's comments, on the whole, are very well taken. In some he is thinking too intellectually and not in consonance with the requirements of the plastic arts--such as his suggestion that Napoleon facing the oracle should be minuscule--but in his suggestion that the eyes of The Newly Born should be "lifted up in wonder of the world," he is spot on intellectually and visually. (The resultant drawing was used on the leather label on the front cover of the book as well.) As for Napoleon's height, Farleigh achieved a brilliant compromise: he made Napoleon much smaller than he was in the preliminary sketch Shaw critiqued, though not the tiny figure Shaw drew, but he made the shadow cast by Napoleon's figure as large as his sketch's original figure--actually even larger! Could there be a better solution? (Farleigh really was a great artist, and I wish he had done more LEC editions, and more of the Shaw plays.)

The Monthly Letter goes into the whole subject of the author's relation to illustrations of his work, and it makes very interesting and amusing reading. When Maugham was questioned by the LEC, he didn't want to make any suggestions, and Norman Douglas flatly refused to give any to Carlotta Petrina, who had gone to Capri to ask his advice on illustrating South Wind. Shaw, as per this booklet, had definite opinions and had originally suggested Farleigh was the man to illustrate his works (once he decided that they should be illustrated at all.) When you compare the sketches and Shaw's notes with the final works, one has to conclude this was amost serendipitous collaboration. Even so, Macy commented in his survey of the first 10 years of the LEC, that he wondered if it was a good idea to let an author have input, as he felt Hervey Allen's suggestions to E.A. Wilson for illustrations for Anthony Adverse led the illustrator far astray.

I have another goodie concerning this book, a catalogue from a gallery in England that was exhibiting his drawings for Back to Methuselah, that I will add as soon as I get dropbox to work. I will try to reinstall the program from scratch when I'm a little bit less busy at work.

I've uploaded pdf scans of the following Monthly Letters:

1943 Mlle de Maupin
1955 The Charterhouse of Parma
1961 The Rise of Silas Lapham

I have been through my books pre 1960, Monthly Letters are rare on the ground, I have only 14 from 170 books, but such as they are I have scanned in those not already here, some have been requested:
1933 Pickwick Papers
1951 I Promessi Sposi
1953 Volpone
1954 Popol Vuh
1954 American Tragedy
1957 The Wall
1957 Conquest of Peru
1958 Le Grand Meaulnes.

Post 1960 I have plenty ( >100 ironjaw: from 200 ), and will upload these too if so wished.

>193 starkimarki:, thanks! Needed Pickwick. Post 1960, do you have:

Aquinas
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Roxana
15 Decisive Battles
Youth, Typhoon
Great Gatsby
Cicero
Short Stories of Chekhov

>194 busywine:
Persuasion
15 Decisive Battles
Great Gatsby
Coming later today.

> great! Thank you!

>194 busywine:

Just bought a mint copy of Roxana on eBay that included both the announcement and monthly letter. I'll try to post the ML soon.

>197 kdweber:, great, thanks!

Wow, this is great the catalogue is growing nicely and we have new members. Yah!. Good work everyone.

With yesterday's post I have completed a decade, albeit 'only' the 70's, perhaps not the most distinguished, but I am enormously pleased with it. Just trying to shore it up now with the ephemera, so if anybody has any of the following, I should be most grateful:

437. RUSSIAN FOLK TALES. 1970.
438. Pushkin, Alexander. THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES. 1971.
443. Camus, Albert. THE STRANGER. 1971.
444. James, Henry. WASHINGTON SQUARE. 1971.
446. Pascal, Blaise. LES PENSEES. 1971.
449. Mann, Thomas. DEATH IN VENICE. 1972.
450. O’Neill, Eugene. AH, WILDERNESS! 1972. . 

451. Conrad, Joseph. YOUTH, TYPHOON, and THE END OF THE TETHER. 1972.
452. Tolstoy, Leo. CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH. 1972.
453. Twain, Mark. ROUGHING IT. 1972.
454. White, Gilbert. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 1972. 

456. Bierce, Ambrose. THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY. 1972.
457. THE ORATIONS AND ESSAYS OF CICERO. 1972. 

461. Blake, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE. 1973. 

463. Dumas, Alexandre. THE QUEEN’S NECKLACE 1973.
464. Chekhov, Anton. THE SHORT STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV. 1973.
465. IRISH FOLK TALES. 1973.
467. Wharton, Edith. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. 1973.
470. Huxley, Aldous. BRAVE NEW WORLD. 1974.
471. Leonard, William Ellery (translator). GILGAMESH. 1974.
472. Boswell, James. JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1974.
473. Weems, Mason L. THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON. 1974.
474. Thucydides. THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. 1974.
475. Twain, Mark. PUDDNHEAD WILSON. 1974.
477. Crane, Stephen. MAGGIE, A GIRL OF THE STREETS. 1974.
480. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. A RAW YOUTH. 1974.
491. Lawrence, D. H. SONS AND LOVERS. 1975.
496. Defoe, Daniel. ROXANA. 1976. 

498. Gogol, Nikolai. THE OVERCOAT and THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR. 1976. 

501. Austen, Jane. PERSUASION. 1977.
503. Hugo, Victor. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 1977.
504. Sassoon, Siegfried. MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. 1977.
505. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 1977.
508. Flaubert, Gustave. THREE TALES. 1978. 



509. THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 1979.

Uploaded:

315. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro). THE ECLOGUES. 1960.
330. ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE. 1961.
332. Thackeray, William Makepeace. THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS. 1961.
339. Shaw, George Bernard. MAN AND SUPERMAN. 1962. 

342. Kipling, Rudyard. KIM. 1962.
344. Verne, Jules. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. 1962.
354. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. 1963.
357. THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. 1963.
362. Collins, Wilkie. THE WOMAN IN WHITE. 1964.
368. Nietzsche, Friedrich. THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. 1964. 

374. BHAGAVAD GITA: THE SONG CELESTIAL. 1965.
380. Petrarch. THE SONNETS OF PETRARCH. 1965. 

390. Chekhov, Anton. TWO PLAYS OF ANTON CHEKHOV. 1966.
391. THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. 1966.
401. Alcott, Louisa May. LITTLE WOMEN. 1967.
407. Joyce, James. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. 1968.
409. THE BOOK ECCLESIASTES. 1968.
417. Remarque, Erich Maria. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. 1969.
420. Scott, Sir Walter. THE TALISMAN. 1969. 

423. Hardy, Thomas. JUDE THE OBSCURE. 1969.
427. Irving, Washington. THE ALHAMBRA. 1969.
428. Steinbeck, John. OF MICE AND MEN. 1970.
429. Frazer, Sir James George. THE GOLDEN BOUGH. 1970.
431. Washington, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. 1970.
432. Livy. THE HISTORY OF EARLY ROME. 1970.

Coming next:
The British Poets - but missing Blake and Burns - so if anybody has those, please share.

These are great! Thanks

>200 starkimarki: Posted Roxana, will try to post D. H. Lawrence soon.

8/10 British Poets posted:
Keats; Donne; Shakespeare; Tennyson; Browning; Yeats; Wordsworth; Shelley.

Blake and Burns to go, but I am missing these letters.

A few more from the 80s uploaded. One or two scans of the larger than A4 pages may be slightly wonky.

515. Rilke, Rainer Maria. SELECTED POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE. 1981.
517. Crane, Hart. THE BRIDGE. 1981.
519. Grimmelshausen, Johann von. THE ADVENTURES OF SIMPLICISSIMUS. 1981.
527. Heaney, Seamus. POEMS AND A MEMOIR BY SEAMUS HEANEY. 1982.
534. Milosz, Czeslaw. THE CAPTIVE MIND. 1983. 

537. Miller, Arthur. DEATH OF A SALESMAN. 1984. 

538. Borges, Jorge Luis. FICCIONES. 1984.
539. Poe, Edgar Allan. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.
541. Grass, Gunter. THE FLOUNDER. 1985.
544. Georges. THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST. 1986.
548. Faulkner, William. HUNTING STORIES. 1988.
549. Carpentier, Alejo. THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD. 1988.
551. Lampedusa, Giuseppe di. THE LEOPARD. 1988.

If anyone has any of these I should be most interested:

516. Sassoon, Siegfried. MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER. 1981.
520. Cowley, Malcolm. EXILE’S RETURN. 1981.
529. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. 1982.
530. Walcott, Derek. POEMS OF THE CARIBBEAN. 1982.


533. Cather, Willa. A LOST LADY. 1983.
535. Singer, Isaac Bashevis. THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN. 1984. 

540. Conrad, Joseph. THE SECRET SHARER. 1985.
545. Kafka, Franz. IN THE PENAL COLONY. 1987. 

546. lonesco, Eugene. JOURNEYS AMONG THE DEAD. 1987.
547. Rilke, Rainer Maria. THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE. 1987.

I'm soon giving up on this. I have reinstalled dropbox and tried to scan a ML and save it on desktop with the intention of creating a new folder in dropbox, and then dragging the pdf file there, but after scanning, it doesn't appear on the desktop. Guess I will have to reactivate my old windows computer. Being fifty, but feeling like ninety...

>205 starkimarki: Mark, does JOURNEYS AMONG THE DEAD have a Monthly Letter or just the one page, letter size, insert?

I will put the Fall of the House of Usher during the coming weekend, snow is coming so I will stay close to the fire.

Parchment, maybe there is a problem with your scanner. can you choose to scan to jpg or pdf? is it a wireless scanner or one connected to usb? Can you try scanning from work to pdf and take the pdf home to your computer to see if you can put into your dropbox folder and notify us so we can tell you if it's uploaded? You could also just try and create a TEST folder in LEC ML folder for testing to see if we others can see it. Then you'll know that at least that dropbox works.

Also can you see the other files?

> Ken, I don't know, my copy has nothing, but I notice some of the volumes of this era do not have the full 4 page letter.

Ironjaw. I believe now that the problem is this. I first had a username on my Mac that I later changed. When I scan, I am asked where to save the file and the old name will show up as the name of my desktop. I have tried to change that, but without success. On a PC, it would probably have been as simple as uninstalling and then reinstalling the scanner software, but on the Mac, I don't know how to do that, and it would probably lead to other problems, since I had a lot of trouble to find drivers that worked on my Mac. I have a CanoScan Lide 90, USB scanner.

have you tried googling for your Canon scanner / maybe the canon website for the mac drivers?

Yes, but there was none available for the 90 model. A friend of mine helped me and we got a driver for another CanoScan to work. Every time I change computer, it seems like I will have to replace my cameras, scanners and printers.

Added:

To the Monthly Letters Folder: 1965's The Poems of Robert Burns

To the Sandglass Folder: The Heritage Shakespeare set from 1958/59

Just to let everyone know that sadly and I don't know how the "_Heritage Press" folder was again deleted by someone. The good news is though that it did not contain anything, I think. I created the folder again for the 3rd or 4th time now so I hope this time it stays.

Maybe you all are trying to give me a hint about Heritage Press by deleting it again and again? :-)

Here are a few more, but then I am all tapp'd out, so I must rely upon the kindness of others. I have a fair few Sandglasses - do we want to upload all of these as well?

439. Dickens, Charles. THE SHORT STORIES OF CHARLES DICKENS. 1971. 


 

440. Darwin, Charles. THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX. 1971.
445. Ovidius Naso, Publius. (Ovid). THE ART OF LOVE. 1971.
447. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT. 1971.
455. THE MEMOIRS OF CASANOVA. 1972.
458. Faulkner, Raymond O. (translator and intro). THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. 1972.
459. THE PANCHATANTRA. 1972.
460. Voltaire. CANDIDE, or OPTIMISM. 1973.
482. Dickens, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES. 1975.
483. Wharton, Edith. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. 1975.
484. Conrad, Joseph. AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS. 1975.
486. Thoreau, Henry David. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. 1975.
487. Sophocles. ANTIGONE. 1975.
489. Burke, Edmund. ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA, AND OTHER PAPERS ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 1975.
490. Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Capt. Gonzalo. THE CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT OF THE ISLAND OF BORIQUEN or PUERTO RICO. 1975.
493. Kafka, Franz. THE TRIAL. 1975.
494. Pater, Walter. THE RENAISSANCE. 1976. 

495. Arnold, Sir Edwin. THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 1976.
499. Cabell, James Branch. JURGEN A Comedy of Justice. 1976.
506. THE BALLADS OF ROBIN HOOD. 1977.
507. Anderson, Sherwood. WINESBURG, OHIO. 1978.

starkimarki
I'll upload the letter and announcement for Ah, Wilderness tonight; I've already uploaded the Burns poems.

>217 featherwate: Featherwate, many thanks, I have them now.

Just picked up a fine copy of Maggie on eBay for a very good price. Unfortunately for me, it came with the wrong Monthly Letter. I've already got a copy of the monthly letter for White Fang Number 468, so I'm offering this copy for free in the USA or for postage (paid to my PayPal account) for the rest of the world. First come, first served, reply by PM.

I would love to get in on the Monthly Letters/Sandglass dropbox. My collection is small at this point, but I have letters for:

Simplicissimus
An Outcast of the Islands
Eugenie Grandet
Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man
The Ballads of Robin Hood
The Pathfinder
The Poems of William Blake
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Wall
Winesburg, Ohio
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Poems of Rilke
The Iceman Cometh
The Odyssey (1981)

Is anyone interested in any of those?

> 220 Yes! Blake will complete the British Poets series.
Several have already been posted ( Iceman; Winesburg; Robin Hood; Odyssey; Simplicissimus ),but I for one would be very keen to have the rest, especially the Sassoons.

Great! Should I PM Ironjaw for the dropbox login info?

Added:
The Monthly Letter for the 1961 The Story of an African Farm. It's an attractive volume, illustrated by Paul Hogarth (1917-2001), a prolific English artist who also illustrated the LEC's poems of Robert Graves, and the first two volumes of Siegfried Sassoon's semi-fictionalised autobiography (the LEC appears not to have published the concluding volume); Hogarth also illustrated several Folio Society books.

African Farm has an unusual, and pleasantly tactile, binding of Ugandan bark-cloth:

Laboriously produced from pounded tree bark, the cloth has traditionally been used for making blankets, women's clothing and - as the monthly letter gleefully points out - shrouds. The letter describes the process in detail, although it mis-spells the tree as Ficus matalensis; it should be Ficus natalensis. Other countries use other trees. It seems a versatile and hard-wearing material.
As well as the Monthly Letter I've added – I hope it's not against Dropbox etiquette! - the above scan and a section enlarged to show the grain.

>223 featherwate: The Story of an African Farm.

Thanks for posting this, featherwate. I've always felt this is a most unjustly neglected LEC--I've seen it sell on eBay for under $20--the bark-cloth alone would cost you 10 times that if you tried to bind a book in it! It's beautifully produced and a fascinating story.

>224 Django6924: Glad you like it too, Django. I couldn't believe how little I had to pay for it!

I just added Poems of William Blake, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. I scanned the letters at 600 dpi (the highest quality the machine would do). The downside is that the file sizes are fairly large. Before I scan the rest, I'd like to know whether everyone thinks that the higher quality is worth it, or whether it would be preferable to scan at a lower resolution?

Well it depends on what size we are talking about; if we are talking about 20 or 30 MB per file, then there is no harm done. We have about 4GB left of space

I've added the Sandglass for the 1959 two-volume The Histories of Herodotus to the Heritage Press folder.
One of my favourite HP publications.

>228 featherwate:

featherwate, I think I've mentioned previously that I prefer this edition to the LEC original on many accounts.

>229 Django6924:
You did, indeed, Django, and this is one HP I wouldn't want to trade in for an LEC. Others are:-
The Miguel Covarrubias Green Mansions – The artwork is fabulous.
The three-volume Montaigne – for its down-to-earth binding; that on the LEC edition is fussier, and it doesn't take much handling/exposure to sun for white leather to look grubby.
Carlotta Petrina's Aeneid – for its far from down-to-earth binding! The LEC is wan by comparison, and I don't like the chopping-off of the wheat ears at the top and bottom of the boards. (I don't actually have either edition yet, but the HP is the one I want to get.)
A Journal of a Plague Year – again, I prefer its binding, and so far as I can tell from online images, the HP reproductions of Domenico Gnoli's striking illustrations aren't significantly inferior to the LEC originals.

>229 Django6924:

featherwate, I agree completely with your selections! I just finished rereading the HP Plague Year last night, and the illustrations are beautifully reproduced (if one can use such an adjective in this case). My HP version has the sickly, gray-green sackcloth style binding with the ominous red 1665 on the cover which seems so much more appropriate than my LEC's light brown burlap with a red X--which matches the bags my favorite Kona coffee beans are shipped in!

One more HP that I wouldn't trade for an LEC is the first printing of France's Penguin Island with Sauvage's wonderful color illustrations, and a binding similar to the Aeneid--a black pebble-finish with a delightful cover blindstamping of a penguin wearing a jaunty musketeer's hat. The later LEC illustrated by Malcolm Cameron, which was then reprinted as a HP edition, is also nice, but that first HP edition is peerless among all of France's works done by Macy.

> 231
I'd forgotten about Sauvage's Penguin Island, perhaps because I already also have the Malcolm Cameron LEC. In their different ways, they're both attractive volumes but in an emergency, yes, I think I'd rescue the Sauvage!
I can see that Penguin Island is going to be one of those books like South Wind of which I'm going to end up owning multiple copies. In his blog Wildcat mentions having an early Dodd, Mead edition illustrated by Frank C. Pape. This is in series with the Dodd, Mead South Wind which I have, illustrated by Valenti Angelo (my other South Winds are Carlotta Petrina's delicate LEC and a two-volume Argus Books edition illustrated by John Austen).
Ah, well. As the prophet almost said, And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of buying many books there is no end.

>232 featherwate:

I have that Angelo-illustrated South Wind as well, and love it! The frontispiece of the seasick bishop is the best rendition of him I've seen (I haven't seen Austen's, but I believe he was born to illustrate this book and I will also have to snag that edition one day--I have the LEC and the first HP editions of this as well).

232) I took another look at my Pape-illustrated Penguin Island a few days ago, and it truly is a beautiful edition. I'll have to take some photos of it one of these days.