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History
From its founding in 1973 until it closed permanently in 2000, the Franklin Library was one of the two largest publishers in the United States of leather bound books. Today, the high quality leather books produced by the Franklin Library are sought after by collectors. The books were arranged in several series consisting of 50-100 books each. Customers subscribed to a particular series and received one book per month, as long as their subscription remained current, until the entire series had been delivered. Thus, it could take over eight years to complete a 100 book set, such as The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series.
Today, the books can only be acquired on the secondary market. The eBay community is one of the largest online auction sites in which collectors are able to purchase and sell Franklin Library books, both individually and in lots. Most titles are also easily obtainable on abebooks, Amazon, and similar sites, or from booksellers and bookshops specializing in antiquarian or collectible books.
Although most of the Franklin Library collections were issued in the full leather bindings (like to per book), some were also simultaneously issued in alternate binding materials such as “faux leather” — also called “leatherette” or imitation leather ( per book). Like the best-bound books, these particular better-bound books were printed on archival paper or acid-free paper to prevent yellowing or tanning. They were also gold gilted and decorated on the covers and the edges of the pages of the book were also gilt in gold to protect the paper from damage due to humidity. Other books were isued in quarter bound leather ( per book) — consisting of a “coated cloth” cover with a leather spine like the Franklin Mystery Series.
Some of their earlier, smaller collections were bound in ‘bonded leather’ (made of leather strips and scraps). This has given rise to a myth that Franklin books bound in other than leather are somehow inferior in publishing standards (such as Easton Press). While some Franklin books are, in fact, not covered in ‘real’ leather, they are still considered to hold high standards of publishing quality.
Of course, the vast majority of their finer collections were bound in the highest degree of publishing bindings like genuine leather, silk pictorial end-pages and silk ribbons attached for a bookmark (like Easton Press). As a cost-cutting measure, Franklin Library Press went into satin or marbled moir end sheets and satin ribbons in its Signed First Editions series.
In addition to the cost of the book, subscribers were expected to pay shipping & handling charges as well as sales taxes. As time went on, later subscribers were asked to pay higher prices.
First Editions
Many publishers in the publishing world, including the original publisher of a book, issued “Limited First Editions” of certain books, especially those of popular authors or books that were particularly important due to award nominations, movie deals, or critical acclaim. Consequently, they represent a different category of books as compared to the typical “trade” edition books.
These “Limited First Editions” were issued in limited numbers (about 100 to 1000 and sometimes even more) and they were issued with a particular designation to set them apart by giving them a special distinction such as a special binding, a slipcase, hand-numbering, a signature by the author, or any combination (or all) of the above. Many of these ‘special’ editions were simultaneously published with the “trade” editions or were done sometimes later.
Some small press publishers actually bought the pages from the original publisher and placed them in a special binding of their own design, had them signed by the author, and had them numbered.
Others, like Easton Press, do their own printing also, using special paper, and they release the “Limited First Edition” up to a year or more after the “trade” edition has been publishedomething that had made a claim of a true “First Edition” somewhat questionable.
In the case of the Franklin Library, it was their policy to contract for the printing rights of the “First Edition” with both the author and the mass-market publisher first, thus making the Franklin Library edition a “true-first-edition” that was published prior to the “trade” edition. This is something that added considerably to the value of their books. To emphasize this difference or distinction, the Franklin Library “trade” editions bore a statement of “First trade edtion” on the copyright page and had a disclaimer stating that “A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by the Franklin Library Press.” Thus, this statement acknowledged that the “First Edition” issued by the Franklin Library Press was indeed the first printing of the book and truly and accurately described as a “first edition.”
A question often asked is: What is the difference between the “First Edition” and the “First Signed Edition”? The difference consists in the fact that a “first edition” contained a signed introduction that was printed along with the book, that is, a “print” of the signature but not a ‘real’ or authentic or personal signature done in ink by hand. The “First Signed Edition” series, something Franklin Library Press started doing in 1983, consisted of a hand-signed authentic and ‘real’ signature done by the author for that one particular book, usually done on a separate page that was then bound into the book. A separate and loosely placed tissue or onion-skin paper was placed over it to protect the printed pages.
The series
Due to overlapping series themes, the same title may appear in more than one series, but ordinarily with a differently designed binding. Many of the book collections issued by the Franklin Library were “open” or “trade” editions, therefore, no edition figures are available.
Here is a list of the individual series:
100 Greatest Books of all Time (leather, 1974-1982, .00; leatherette, 1973-1986, .00) First Edition Society (leather, 1976-1980) Pulitzer Prize Series (leather, 1975-1982) 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature (leather, 1976-1984, .00) 60 Signed Limited Editions (leather, 1977-1982, .00) – (the most spectacular collection) Stories of the World’s Greatest Writers (leather, 1977-1985) 20th Century’s Greatest Books (leather, 1977-1982, .00) World’s Best-Loved Books (leather, 1977-1986, .00) Great Books of the Western World (leather, 1978-1985) – a great one to own! World’s Great Books Family Library (quarter-bound, 1979-1984) Heirloom Library of the World’s Greatest Books (quarter-bound, 1979-1983) Oxford Library of the World’s Great Books (quarter-bound, 1981-1985). Note: e-Bay member book fever has provided examples of at least some of this series proving that they were issued in full leather as well. Greatest Books of the World’s Greatest Writers (cloth, 1981-1985) Signed First Edition Society (leather, 1983-2000) Franklin Mystery Series (cloth and leather versions, 1986-1989 – offered in either leather or cloth; the leather versions didn’t sell well and they were discontinued. The leather editions version contained a different or separate list and didn’t follow the same sequence of the cloth editions. Metropolitan Museum of Art (cloth and leather versions, 1987) – a 12-volume set – each volume highlights the art of a different society and culture. Foreign Language Editions (early ’80s) – Franklin also issued great books collections in German (The German Masterworks I & II) and Japanese (The Japanese Heirloom Library), mostly leather-bound or quarter-bound, but with a few Sturdite editions as well (possibly just prototypes).
The 100 Greatest Books of All Time (1974-1982)
Considered to be one of the more popular collections, the titles shown below were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents between 1974 to 1982.
This series was also published in the same quality paper starting in 1973, pre-dating the leather bound series, but using the faux leather or leatherette bindings decorated in gold/silver with printed design papers for the end-pages and gold on the edges of the pages of the book but without the ribbon bookmark. Some book titles were substituted with others. Books with this type of binding were published beyond 1986.
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Oresteia by Aeschylus
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Five Comedies by Aristophanes
Politics by Aristotle
Confessions of St. Augustine
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon
Le Pre Goriot by Honor de Balzac
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bront
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Tales From The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard F. Burton
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Don Quixote de La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Plays by Anton Chekhov
Analects of Confucius
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Philosophical Works of Ren Descartes
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Poems of John Donne
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Collected Poems (1909-1962) of T. S. Eliot
Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plays by Euripides
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
The Basic Works of Sigmund Freud
The Poetry of Robert Frost
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Favorite Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm Brothers Grimm
The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison and Jay
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Plays by Henrik Ibsen
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Nine Tales of Henry James
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Poems of John Keats
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Prince by Niccol Machiavelli
Five Stories of Thomas Mann
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Political Writings of John Stuart Mill
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Seven Plays by Molire
Four Plays of Eugene O’Neill
Political Writings of Thomas Paine
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
Satyricon by Petronius
The Republic by Plato
Twelve Illustrious Lives by Plutarch
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Six Tragedies by Jean Racine
Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Eight Comedies by William Shakespeare
Six Histories by William Shakespeare
Poems of William Shakespeare
Six Tragedies by William Shakespeare
Three Plays by Bernard Shaw
The Tragedies of Sophocles
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Aeneid by Virgil
Candide by Voltaire
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Selected Poems of William Butler Yeats
Nana by Emile Zola
The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature (1976-1984)
The following titles were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents from 1976-1984:
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Collected Poems of W. H. Auden
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Bent
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 by William Bradford
The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
My ntonia by Willa Cather
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
The Collected Stories of Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The DeerSlayer by James Fenimore Cooper
The Collected Poems of E. E. Cummings
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto
Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson
1919 by John Dos Passos
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
Dusk of Dawn by W. E. B. Du Bois
Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
The Collected Poems (1909-1962) of T. S. Eliot
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack for 1733-1758 by Benjamin Franklin
The Poems of Robert Frost
The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison and Jay
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
The Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Six Plays by Lillian Hellman
The First Forty-Nine Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Selected Tales of Henry James
Psychology by William James
Pragmatism by William James
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
The Country of the Pointed Firs and 14 Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
Round Up, The Stories of Ring Lardner
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Collected Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor & The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
Typee by Herman Melville
The Plays by Arthur Miller
The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore
Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison
Interpretations and Forecasts: 1922-1972 by Lewis Mumford
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
McTeague by Frank Norris
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
Four Plays of Eugene O’Neill
Common Sense, The American Crisis and The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Collected Poems and Essays on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Personae – A Draft of 30 Cantos by Ezra Pound
Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Carl Sandburg
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
Week on the Concord and Merrimak Rivers by Henry D. Thoreau
The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Up From Slavery, an Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Plays of Thornton Wilder
The Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams
The Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
The Collected Stories of the World’s Greatest Writers (1977-1985)
The following titles were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents from 1977-1985:
Notes from Underground, The Gambler, and Poor People by Fyodor Dostoevsky
28 Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
27 Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Daphne du Maurier
The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and The Woman of Andros by Thornton Wilder
Seven Gothic Tales of Isak Dinesen
Mr. Moto’s Three Aces by John P. Marquand
The Collected Stories of Franz Kafka
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories by John Updike
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
Sermons and Soda-Water by John O’Hara
The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Stories From the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Moon Lake and 12 Other Stories by Eudora Welty
Stories of Five Decades by Hermann Hesse
Dubliners by James Joyce
One Basket by Edna Ferber
Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
The Apple Tree and Other Tales by John Galsworthy
35 Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
38 Stories by Saki H. H. Munro
Nabokov’s Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
13 Stories by Sinclair Lewis
Three Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and 18 Other Stories by Mark Twain
The New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
21 Collected Short Stories by Aldous Huxley
Seven Tales by Henry James
17 Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
22 Stories by Edith Wharton
The Country of the Pointed Firs and 4 Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
14 Selected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
The Ranger and 3 Other Stories by Zane Grey
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
74 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
30 Stories by Guy de Maupassant
The Kreutzer Sonata and 10 Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Troll Garden & Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather
Thirteen O’Clock – Stories of Several Worlds by Stephen Vincent Bent
73 Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Queen of Spades and 3+ Other Tales by Alexander Pushkin
7 Stories by Booth Tarkington
Peasants and 8 Other Stories Anton Chekhov
Heart of Darkness and 10 Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett
222 Fables, Fully Indexed by Aesop
Round Up by Ring Lardner
Tales of All Countries and 8 Other Stories by Anthony Trollope
16 California Stories by Bret Harte
25 Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas
The Magic Barrel and Idiots First by Bernard Malamud
From Death to Morning by Thomas Wolfe
45 Selected Stories by O. Henry
Taras Bulba and 8 Other Tales by Nikolai Gogol
These Thirteen by William Faulkner
5 Stories by Thomas Mann
Here Lies. 24 Collected Stories by Dorothy Parker
Four Short Novels by D. H. Lawrence
Three Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyon
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
4 Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Wall and 5 Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
First Love and 7 Other Tales by Ivan Turgenev
100 Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
This Gun for Hire, The Confidential Agent, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
A Descent into the Maelstrom and 23 Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Gimpel the Fool and 10 Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
32 Droll Stories by Honor de Balzac
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and 22 Selected Stories by Stephen Crane
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
18 Stories by Heinrich Bll
27 Stories by Erskine Caldwell
22 Stories by Luigi Pirandello
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Laughing to Keep from Crying and 25 Jesse Semple Stories by Langston Hughes
The Best (14) Short Stories by Theodore Dreiser
In the Midst of Life – Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
Stories by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
16 Tales of the Northland by Jack London
Stories & Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde
Candide and Zadig by Franois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Billy Budd, Sailor and The (6) Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
36 Stories by Alexandre Dumas
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. by Washington Irving
8 Collected Short Stories by Carson McCullers
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Around the World in Eighty Days & From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
60 Signed Limited Editions (1977-1982)
Signature of Robert Penn Warren from the Signed Limited Edition of All the King’s Men
Considered to be one of the most valuable, the following titles were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents from 1977 to 1982:
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Singer Gimpel, The Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Beshevis
God Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Deliverance by James Dickey
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
A God Against the Gods by Allen Drury
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell
The Collector by John Fowles
The French Lieutenant Woman by John Fowles
Mary Queen Of Scotts by Antonia Fraser
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Good As Gold by Joseph Heller
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
The Wall by John Hersey
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Collected Plays of Arthur Miller
Birds of America by Mary McCarthy
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patton
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
The Affair by C.P. Snow
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Exodus by Leon Uris
Burr by Gore Vidal
Julian by Gore Vidal
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
All the King Men by Robert Penn Warren
Selected Poems (1923-1975) of Robert Penn Warren
The Optimist Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West
In Search of History by Theodore H. White
Selected Plays of Tennessee Williams
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Pulitzer Prize Classics (1975-1980)
This was a 53 volume collection of Pulitzer Prize winning novels, from the 1917 prize inception through 1979. The following titles were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents from 1975-1980:
1917 no prize for novel
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkingon
1920 no prize for novel
1920 no prize for novel
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather
1924 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson
1925 So Big by Edna Ferber
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933 The Store by T.S. Stribling
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1935 Now in November by Josephine Johnson
1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1937 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1938 The Late George Apley by John Marquand
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1941 no prize for novel
1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1946 no prize for novel
1947 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1950 The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1954 no prize for novel
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor
1957 no prize for novel
1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee
1959 The Travels of Jaime Mcpheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner
1964 no prize for novel
1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Ann Porter
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1971 no prize for novel
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
1974 no prize for novel
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra
1976 Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
1977 no prize for novel
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan Mcpherson
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
The (Signed) First Edition Society
The Franklin Library published limited first editions of a large number of books. They were distributed to the members of its First Edition Society. Initially the books were unsigned and not numbered. Later the name was changed to the Signed First Editions Society, and the books issued to members were all signed by the authors, and in some cases were also numbered as to the limitation.
See also
Easton Press
Folio Society
Oxford Press
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The first step in creating a website isn’t hiring a designer or finding a programmer. It’s choosing the name of the domain. This should be your “point A”, the first thing on your check list. Your domain name can be the cornerstone of your site or it can become a major stumbling block.
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Michell
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Feb 15, 2011
What Factors Affect Automobile Shipping
Shipping car or any other vehicle can only be considered if you make all your efforts to search for professional international auto shipping company. This will give you the best and the cost effective way to ship your vehicle to another country.
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maria jennifierl
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Customer Servicel
Feb 14, 2011
Understand The True Value Of The Show Exhibitors Do Mature
Electrical Industry Exhibition is the exhibition industry heavyweight, from the exhibition industry in China’s history, mechanical and electrical manufacturing exhibition is the first steps
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Ethicsl
Oct 26, 2010
Giant International Construction Machinery Plant In China Overcapacity Highlight
Volvo Construction equipment in China and set up the first technical and customer center Reporter recently held in Beijing from the Tenth Beijing International Construction Machinery
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Oct 26, 2010
Concern: The Real Estate Market Driving The Development Of Stainless Steel Security Doors
As China’s economic development, whether Project Decoration or family Decoration All in the pursuit of high quality and high grade Building Materials Products, and have distinct characteristics
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Agriculturel
Oct 26, 2010
Expert Analysis Of The Traditional Function Of Stock Cardboard
Traditional view that small plants and corrugated cardboard manufacturer functional significantly different is that the former will provide the smaller amount of orders
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Human Resourcesl
Oct 26, 2010
Summer Beauty Whitening Mm Chronicle
“One-third of white beauty” is a traditional Chinese aesthetic standards, the summer is a woman with the sun and stain fighting season, but everyone is doing skin care
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Ethicsl
Oct 26, 2010
Community Car Wash Car Wash Industry, Quite A Mixed Bag Shop Mostly Black Shops
Roadside Car wash Sharing can be seen everywhere Core tips Fuzhou, Chen recently discovered that they only bought half of the car lost its luster, look for reason
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Business Opportunitiesl
Oct 25, 2010
Information Tea: January 5 News Easy To See Machinery Industry
Mechanical information easy to see, Welcome to IT afternoon tea time. When the clock struck three, the machinery industry all instant suspended for the afternoon tea every day at 3 pm
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Networkingl
Oct 25, 2010
Liu Yunjie: Internet Of Things Present And Future Industry Outlook
Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning! I am very pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this meeting
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[email protected]l
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International Businessl
Oct 25, 2010
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