Thanks for the purchase of the two volumes, Peck. They are indeed classics.
In 1964, Tom Dunn founded The Universal Coterie of Pipe Smokers, also known as TUCOPS. TUCOPS was a pipe smokers club, in a sense, and was comprised of pipe smokers from across the the globe. Those interested in joining simply needed to send Tom a note with name address and phone number to join. His communication to the Coterie came through a publication called The Pipe Smokers's Ephemeris, with a membership of almost 9,000 subscribers until Mr. Dunn's death in 2006, and per his wishes, the Ephemeris was discontinued. This publication was often referred to as an "irregularly" published quarterly that contained an exhaustive amount of information about pipes and tobacco. The Pipe Smokers Ephemeris Book I is a Hard Bound Illustrated Collected edition of The Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris consisting of every issue from Spring 1965 to Summer-Autumn 1979. A Limited Edition of only 300 ever produced and signed by the editor.
The Pipe Smokers Ephemeris Book II covered the second fifteen years (1980-1995) of the TUCOPS. It is a hardbound 825 pages full of articles, missives, advertisements, pictures, poetry, etc, celebrating the pipe smoking hobby.
The publications are truly fascinating and that is whey they are so expensive along with the fact that so few were ever printed that they are hard to find.
So Peck, if you want any individual issues after 1995, you can hunt them up on eBay and elsewhere. I know I used to be as excited as a kid on Christmas morning every time I found an issue in my mailbox.
Pipestud