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.

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!

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.

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 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 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