On Jeudi, déce 5, 2002, at 09:06 US/Eastern, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
I know at one time in our acquaintance, JCB had a list of some 2000 purchases or enquiries about the 1975 edition. It may well have been destroyed. I believe he at one time, probably when the latest edition appeared, sent cards to these people informing them of the new edition, but a large proportion of them returned undeliverable, and I don't think the delivered ones produced much response. He may have been careless about his bookkeeping, but he did keep careful note of such things as enquiries, responses to ads etc. My memory of the above is rather vague, so don't take it as gospel, aside from the fact that the list existed at one time. I think it would be even more useless at present, and I think the analogy of corn growers to book buyers is weak.But the 30-year TLI customer list is probably unrecoverable, even to McIvor, and most of JCB's book buyers did so more than 25 years ago.