Easton Press Information
The Easton Press has been publishing fine quality leatherbound books for almost 30 years, using 22kt gold stamping on the covers, fine endpapers and sewn-in satin bookmarks. Although they offer a few series, most of their books are far-ranging in interest and topic, much more diversified than Franklin Library was. Many of their older books have increased tremendously in value, while others languish at about half the original price.
Most of their series books tend to hold or increase in value, especially the two signed first edition series - Signed First Editions and Signed First Editions of Science Fiction, which are issued in limited numbers, usually between 1,000 and 1,500 each. Their Signed Modern Classics series also has some gems in it, although Easton tends to reprint many of these, if the authors are still alive and willing to sign more pages and Certificates of Authenticity (COA), to accommodate new subscribers, often resulting in differing dates on the copyright pages and COAs, as well as watering down the market by increasing the supply.
Another series of note is the Masterpieces of Science Fiction, which includes about one signed book for every 10 unsigned ones. While containing some very nice titles, this series is a mish-mash in that titles are often removed from the series and others substituted, including the signed titles (my list below is simply the latest version, subject to change). Nevertheless, the signed titles do very well on the secondary market and even the unsigned ones are in demand, if in Fine condition.
The Library of the Presidents, another popular series, is now down to only three signed titles (Presidents Carter, Ford and Bush), making the previous signed offerings by Nixon and Reagan even more valuable. The unsigned editions do not tend to do well by themselves, but a complete collection commands a good price.
Finally, a word on the non-series signed books, which are available to the general public without a subscription. Many of these were formerly part of the Signed First Edition series and have been reissued as "Signed Collector's Editions," again depending upon the author's ability and willingness to sign new pages and (sometimes) COAs. Needless to say, the collector's edition is not as valuable as the original signed first edition, but still in demand, as are others which are first-time releases by Easton.
There are also a few unsigned series similar to the Franklin Library unsigned series (see below) and, like the Franklins, mostly sell below retail on the secondary market, but tend to hold that (reduced) value.
A Note to (Potential) Easton Subscribers
Since most of the major Easton series are available by subscription only, there is an active market for single books from the various series, even though some of them are still available directly from Easton. For those wanting a collection, rather than just a few individual books, Easton offers a program requiring only a small effort on your part. First of all, Easton offers a no-questions-asked 30-day return policy at their expense (you have to contact them and they'll send you a postage-page return sticker).
Second, and not so well known, you can request a listing of available titles in the series and send it back to them with titles you do not want marked. They will not send you those titles, saving you the trouble of returning an unwanted book. If you change your mind, you can request the formerly unwanted title and, if you decide you don't want a book you did receive, you can take advantage of the return policy. A no-lose situation for the collector!
Non-Easton Eastons?
This was brought to my attention by a couple of fellow booksellers. Apparently, Easton issued some books which were not printed by them. They bought the actual publisher's textblock and bound it in the famous Easton leather, putting the stylized "e/p" logo on the bottom of the spine; however, there is no reference to Easton on the title or copyright pages. An example of this is the Abrams' re-issue of <I>Monet</I> in 1989. Thanks to satnrose and psthomas (eBay usernames) for this information. I'd appreciate any other examples to add to this list.
List of Easton's Major Series
Signed First Editions (list of titles below)
Signed First Editions of Science Fiction (list of titles below)
Signed Modern Classics (list of titles below)
Masterpieces of Science Fiction (list of titles below)
Library of the Presidents
100 Greatest Books Ever Written
Great Books of the 20th Century
Books That Changed the World
First Edition Library (facsimile first editions of famous
books - this is new to Easton, but has been offered for years by the
original publisher, and I'm not sure if Easton bought them out or
just signed a distribution agreement - anybody know?)
Easton Press Signed Modern Classics
|
Easton ID # |
Title |
Author |
|
0450001 |
Death of a Salesman |
Arthur Miller |
|
0450002 |
Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
|
0450003 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Maya Angelou |
|
0450004 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Ken Kesey |
|
0450005 |
Rabbit, Run |
John Updike |
|
0450006 |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
|
0450007 |
A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest J. Gaines |
|
0450008 |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
John Berendt |
|
0450009 |
The English Patient |
Michael Ondaatje |
|
0450010 |
What Makes Sammy Run |
Budd Schulberg |
|
0450011 |
Trinity |
Leon Uris |
|
0450012 |
Cold Mountain |
Charles Frazier |
|
0450013 |
Sophie's Choice |
William Styron |
|
0450014 |
The Accidental Tourist |
Anne Tyler |
|
0450015 |
Schindler's List |
Thomas Keneally |
|
0450016 |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
John Fowles |
|
0450017 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Edward Albee |
|
0450018 |
Like Water for Chocolate |
Laura Esquivel |
|
0450019 |
Ironweed |
William Kennedy |
|
0450020 |
Little Big Man |
Thomas Berger |
|
0450021 |
Lake Wobegon Days |
Garrison Keillor |
|
0450022 |
The Homecoming |
Harold Pinter |
|
0450023 |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
Annie Dillard |
|
0450024 |
A Bend in the River |
V.S. Naipaul |
|
0450025 |
Burr |
Gore Vidal |
|
0450026 |
Inherit the Wind |
Jerome Lawrence |
|
0450027 |
Bright Lights, Big City |
Jay McInerney |
|
0450028 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Hunter S. Thompson |
|
0450029 |
At Play in the Fields of the Lord |
Peter Matthiessen |
|
0450030 |
The Joy Luck Club |
Amy Tan |
|
0450031 |
A Book of Common Prayer |
Joan Didion |
|
0450032 |
Fear of Flying |
Erica Jong |
|
0450033 |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
Robert Pirsig |
|
0450034 |
Ragtime |
E.L. Doctorow |
|
0450035 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner |
William Styron |
|
0450036 |
Exodus |
Leon Uris |
|
0450037 |
The Chosen |
Chaim Potok |
|
0450038 |
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
Alan Sillitoe |
|
0450039 |
Forrest Gump |
Winston Groom |
|
0450040 |
Them |
Joyce Carol Oates |
|
0450041 |
Love Story |
Erich Segal |
|
0450042 |
The Andromeda Strain |
Michael Crichton |
|
0450043 |
Flowers for Algernon |
Daniel Keyes |
|
0450044 |
Angela's Ashes |
Frank McCourt |
|
0450045 |
Bang the Drum Slowly |
Mark Harris |
|
0450046 |
The Boys of Summer |
Roger Kahn |
|
0450047 |
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
Tom Robbins |
|
0450048 |
I, the Jury |
Mickey Spillane |
|
0450049 |
Shoeless Joe |
W.P. Kinsella |
|
0450050 |
The Ledge Between the Streams |
Ved Mehta |
|
0450051 |
Alive |
Piers Paul Read |
|
0450052 |
Amadeus |
Peter Shaffer |
|
0450053 |
Possession |
A.S. Byatt |
|
0450054 |
The Long Walk |
Slavomir Rawicz |
|
0450055 |
Rumpole of the Bailey |
John Mortimer |
|
0450056 |
The Snow Leopard |
Peter Matthiessen |
|
0450057 |
Seven Years in Tibet |
Heinrich Harrer |
|
0450058 |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
|
0450059 |
The Best and the Brightest |
David Halberstam |
|
0450060 |
The Thorn Birds |
Colleen McCullough |
|
0450061 |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (see note below) |
Muriel Spark |
|
0450062 |
Independence Day |
Richard Ford |
|
0450063 |
A Thousand Acres |
Jane Smiley |
|
0450064 |
A Winter's Tale |
Mark Helprin |
|
0450065 |
Going After Cacciato |
Tim O'Brien |
|
0450066 |
Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
|
0450067 |
The Ice Storm |
Rick Moody |
|
0450068 |
The Shipping News |
E. Annie Proulx |
|
0450069 |
Empire Falls |
Richard Russo |
|
0450070 |
Life of Pi |
Yann Martel |
|
0450071 |
Soul Mountain |
Gao Xingjian |
|
0450072 |
White Teeth |
Zadie Smith |
|
0450073 |
The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen |
|
0450074 |
The Graduate |
Charles Webb |
|
0450075 |
The Alienist |
Caleb Carr |
|
0450076 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
Oscar Hijuelos |
Note: Muriel Spark died before signing all the copies of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, so Easton issued it separately as a "Collector's Edition" at a higher price.
Easton Press Signed First Editions
|
Easton ID # |
Title |
Author |
|
0116001 |
Self-Consciousness |
John Updike |
|
0116002 |
Loyalties |
Carl Bernstein |
|
0116003 |
Life-Sketches |
John Hersey |
|
0116004 |
Crosswinds of Freedom |
James McGregor Burns |
|
0116005 |
Not That You Asked |
Andrew A. Rooney |
|
0116006 |
His Eminence and Hizzoner |
John Cardinal O'Connor and Edward Koch |
|
0116007 |
Love and Marriage |
Bill Cosby |
|
0116008 |
To be determined |
|
|
0116009 |
Not used |
|
|
0116010 |
The Long Gray Line |
Rick Atkinson |
|
0116011 |
Red Victory |
W. Bruce Lincoln |
|
0116012 |
Men at Work |
George P. Will |
|
0116013 |
Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt |
Harvey Mackay |
|
0116014 |
Bachelor Girls |
Wendy Wasserstein |
|
0116015 |
My Life in Three Acts |
Helen Hayes |
|
0116016 |
Fighting for Peace |
Caspar W. Weinberger |
|
0116017 |
Peril and Promise |
John Chancellor |
|
0116018 |
Out There |
Howard Blum |
|
0116019 |
Tell Me More |
Larry King |
|
0116020 |
Life on the Road |
Charles Kuralt |
|
0116021 |
Blown Away |
A.E. Hotchner |
|
0116022 |
Beijing Diary |
Charleton Heston |
|
0116023 |
Under God: Religion and American Politics |
Garry Wills |
|
0116024 |
The New Russians |
Hedrick Smith |
|
0116025 |
In the Company of Writers: A Life in Publishing |
Charles Scribner Jr. |
|
0116026 |
The Next Century |
David Halberstam |
|
0116027 |
Collision at Home Plate |
James Reston |
|
0116028 |
What's Wrong with Sports |
Howard Cosell |
|
0116029 |
Bully for Brontosaurus |
Stephen Jay Gould |
|
0116030 |
Karpov on Karpov |
Anatoly Karpov |
|
0116031 |
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery |
Stephen E. Ambrose |
|
0116032 |
Three Blind Mice |
Ken Auletta |
|
0116033 |
Entering New Worlds |
Max M. Kampelman |
|
0116034 |
American Originals |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
|
0116035 |
Fates Worse Than Death |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
|
0116036 |
Ginger |
Ginger Rogers |
|
0116037 |
Sages and Dreamers |
Elie Wiesel |
|
0116038 |
Windfall |
William F. Buckley |
|
0116039 |
The Happy Isles of Oceania |
Paul Theroux |
|
0116040 |
Undue Process |
Elliot Abrams |
|
0116041 |
A Life in Music |
Daniel Barenboim |
|
0116042 |
A Bus of My Own |
Jim Lehrer |
|
0116043 |
Inner Circles |
Alexander Haig |
|
0116044 |
Origins Reconsidered |
Roger Lewin and Richard Leakey |
|
0116045 |
The Wives of Henry VIII |
Antonia Fraser |
|
0116046 |
Horowitz - His Life and Music |
Harold C. Schonberg |
|
0116047 |
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car |
William Kennedy |
|
0116048 |
Push Come to Shove |
Twyla Tharp |
|
0116049 |
The First Dissident |
William Safire |
|
0116050 |
Looking for Gatsby |
Faye Dunaway |
|
0116051 |
The Four Dimensions of Philosophy |
Mortimer J. Adler |
|
0116052 |
Healing and the Mind |
Bill Moyers |
|
0116053 |
Turning Point |
President Jimmy Carter |
|
0116054 |
Out of Control |
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
|
0116055 |
The Book of Virtues |
William Bennett |
|
0116056 |
Voices and Silences |
James Earl Jones |
|
0116057 |
Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life |
Herbert Block |
|
0116058 |
The Art of Dreaming |
Carlos Castaneda |
|
0116059 |
Barbara Bush |
Barbara Bush |
|
0116060 |
Taken on Trust |
Terry Waite |
|
0116061 |
Further Along the Road |
M. Scott Peck |
|
0116062 |
Live from the Battle Field |
Peter Arnett |
|
0116063 |
On the Line |
Larry King |
|
0116064 |
The Camera Never Blinks |
Dan Rather |
|
0116065 |
The New Middle East |
Shimon Peres |
|
0116066 |
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness |
Peggy Noonan |
|
0116067 |
Divided We Fall |
Haynes Johnson |
|
0116068 |
Certain Trumpets |
Garry Wills |
|
0116069 |
Global Paradox |
John Naisbitt |
|
0116070 |
Fear of 50 |
Erica Jong |
|
0116071 |
Lost Moon |
Jeff Kluger and James Lovell |
|
0116072 |
All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President |
James Carville and Mary Matalin |
|
0116073 |
Leveling Wind |
George F. Will |
|
0116074 |
Resurrection |
John C. Danforth |
|
0116075 |
Stranger to the Game |
Lonnie Wheeler and Bob Gibson |
|
0116076 |
Cleopatra's Nose |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
|
0116077 |
Broken Covenant |
Moshe Arens |
|
0116078 |
Adler's Philosophical Dictionary |
Mortimer J. Adler |
|
0116079 |
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam |
Robert McNamara |
|
0116080 |
I Was Right on Time |
Buck O'Neill |
|
0116081 |
This Side of Peace |
Hanan Ashrawi |
|
0116082 |
In the Arena |
Charleton Heston |
|
0116083 |
By George |
George Foreman |
|
0116084 |
One Man Tango |
Anthony Quinn |
|
0116085 |
Power, Pasta and Politics |
Alfonse D'Amato |
|
0116086 |
A Good Life |
Benjamin C. Bradlee |
|
0116087 |
The Politics of Diplomacy |
James Baker |
|
0116088 |
The Moral Compass |
William Bennett |
|
0116089 |
Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir |
Bill Bradley |
|
0116090 |
The American Family |
Dan Quayle and Diane Medved |
|
0116091 |
Messages from My Father |
Calvin Trillin |
|
0116092 |
Name-Dropping |
Alan King |
|
0116093 |
Why I Am a Democrat |
Theodore C. Sorensen |
|
0116094 |
I'll Always Have Paris |
Art Buchwald |
|
0116095 |
An Easy Burden |
Andrew Young |
|
0116096 |
Leading With My Chin |
Jay Leno |
|
0116097 |
Blues All Around Me |
B.B. King |
|
0116098 |
The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life |
Thomas Moore |
|
0116099 |
In Heaven As on Earth |
M. Scott Peck |
|
0116100 |
The Right Word |
William F. Buckley Jr. |
|
0116101 |
Waylon |
Waylon Jennings |
|
0116102 |
Bouncing Back |
Joan Rivers |
|
0116103 |
Brain Droppings |
George Carlin |
|
0116104 |
Locked in the Cabinet |
Robert B. Reich |
|
0116105 |
Egypt's Road to Jerusalem |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
|
0116106 |
The Grand Chessboard |
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
|
0116107 |
A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
Stanley Kramer |
|
0116108 |
The New War |
Senator John Kerry |
|
0116109 |
When Do I Start? |
Karl Malden |
|
0116110 |
Climbing the Mountain |
Kirk Douglas |
|
0116111 |
Timequake |
Kurt Vonnegut |
|
0116112 |
Citizen Soldiers |
Stephen E. Ambrose |
|
0116113 |
Lost Man's River |
Peter Matthiesen |
|
0116114 |
To be determined |
|
|
0116115 |
Future Talk |
Larry King |
|
0116116 |
A Shining City |
Ronald Reagan |
|
0116117 |
Singing Lessons |
Judy Collins |
|
0116118 |
The Real McKay |
Jim McKay |
|
0116119 |
Don't Tell Dad |
Peter Fonda |
|
0116120 |
My Heart Laid Bare |
Joyce Carol Oates |
|
0116121 |
Pataki: An Autobiography |
George Pataki |
|
0116122 |
George Jones: I Lived to Tell It All |
George Jones |
|
0116123 |
Great Political Wit |
Bob Dole |
|
0116124 |
All Too Human |
George Stephanopoulos |
|
0116125 |
Bech At Bay |
John Updike |
|
0116126 |
Reporting Live |
Lesley Stahl |
|
0116127 |
Paul Simon |
Senator Paul Simon |
|
0116128 |
Front Row at the White House |
Helen Thomas |
|
0116129 |
For the Time Being |
Annie Dillard |
|
0116130 |
Heat |
Dwight Gooden |
|
0116131 |
Ex-Friends |
Norman Podhoretz |
|
0116132 |
Deadlines and Datelines |
Dan Rather |
|
0116133 |
The Times of My Life and My Life With the times |
Max Frankel |
|
0116134 |
You're Missing a Great Game |
Whitey Herzog |
|
0116135 |
The Redhunter |
William F. Buckley Jr. |
|
0116136 |
Reason for Hope |
Jane Goodall |
|
0116137 |
Just Revenge |
Alan Dershowitz |
|
0116138 |
Name Dropping: From FDR On |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
|
0116139 |
Get a Life! |
William Shatner |
|
0116140 |
Bagombo Snuff Box |
Kurt Vonnegut |
|
0116141 |
Worth Fighting For |
Dan Quayle |
|
0116142 |
Command Performance |
Jane Alexander |
|
0116143 |
'Tis: A Memoir |
Frank McCourt |
|
0116144 |
My First 79 Years |
Isaac Stern |
|
0116145 |
In Praise of Public Life |
Joseph Lieberman |
|
0116146 |
Married to Laughter |
Jerry Stiller |
|
0116147 |
Cybill Disobedience |
Cybill Shepherd |
|
0116148 |
It's All Relative |
Bill Cosby |
|
0116149 |
Lying Stones of Marrakech |
Stephen Jay Gould |
|
0116150 |
Special Prisoner |
Jim Lehrer |
|
0116151 |
Don't Make Me Stop the Car! |
Al Roker |
|
0116152 |
Nothing Like It in the World |
Stephen E. Ambrose |
|
0116153 |
Eyewitness to Power |
David Gergen |
|
0116154 |
Anything Goes! |
Larry King |
|
0116155 |
The Golden Age |
Gore Vidal |
|
0116156 |
A Life in the 20th Century |
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
|
0116157 |
Licks of Love |
John Updike |
|
0116158 |
Great Presidential Wit |
Bob Dole |
|
0116159 |
Maestro |
Bob Woodward |
|
0116160 |
I Don't Want to Go to Jail |
Jimmy Breslin |
|
0116161 |
The American Dream |
Dan Rather |
|
0116162 |
A Passion to Win |
Sumner Redstone |
|
0116163 |
Around America |
Walter Cronkite |
|
0116164 |
Lake Wobegon: Summer, 1956 |
Garrison Keillor |
|
0116165 |
War in a Time of Peace |
David Halberstam |
|
0116166 |
Hello Darlin' |
Larry Hagman |
|
0116167 |
Memoirs |
Edward Teller |
|
0116168 |
The Music of Silence |
Andrea Bocelli |
|
0116169 |
The Great Movies |
Roger Ebert |
|
0116170 |
American Scoundrel |
Thomas Keneally |
|
0116171 |
Genes, Girls and Gamow, After the Double Helix |
James D. Watson |
|
0116172 |
Still Woman Enough |
Loretta Lynn |
|
0116173 |
When I Was a Young Man |
Bob Kerrey |
|
0116174 |
The Judges |
Elie Wiesel |
|
0116175 |
We'll Laugh Again |
Art Buchwald |
|
0116176 |
My America: What My Country Means to Me |
Hugh Downs |
|
0116177 |
Worth Fighting For: A Memoir |
John McCain |
|
0116178 |
Memoirs |
David Rockefeller |
|
0116179 |
An Amazing Adventure |
Hadassah and Joseph Lieberman |
|
0116180 |
A Long Way From Home |
Tom Brokaw |
|
0116181 |
This Just In |
Bob Schieffer |
|
0116182 |
An Independent Man |
Senator James M. Jeffords |
|
0116183 |
Funny Letters From Famous People |
Charles Osgood |
|
0116184 |
Madame Secretary |
Madeleine Albright |
|
0116185 |
The Majesty of the Law |
Sandra Day O'Connor |
|
0116186 |
General Ike |
John S.D. Eisenhower |
|
0116187 |
Friends of a Feather |
Bill Cosby |
|
0116188 |
Ask Me Again Tomorrow |
Olympia Dukakis |
|
0116189 |
Gettysburg |
Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen |
|
0116190 |
Reflections: Life After the White House |
Barbara Bush |
|
0116191 |
The Pleasure of My Company |
Steve Martin |
|
0116192 |
Never Give In |
Winston S. Churchill |
|
0116193 |
A Call to Service |
Senator John Kerry |
|
0116194 |
Shameless Exploitation |
Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner |
|
0116195 |
God Has a Dream |
Desmond Tutu |
|
0116196 |
Founding Mothers |
Cokie Roberts |
|
0116197 |
Why Courage Matters |
Senator John McCain |
|
0116198 |
Big Russ and Me |
Tim Russert |
|
0116199 |
It's Not Easy Being Me |
Rodney Dangerfield |
|
0116200 |
The Economics of Innocent Fraud |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
|
0116201 |
Herding Cats |
Senator Trent Lott |
|
0116202 |
Moving to Higher Ground |
Wynton Marsalis |
|
0116203 |
Golden Boy |
Paul Hornung |
|
0116204 |
American Soldier |
Tommy Franks |
|
0116205 |
A Paper L |