Books That Should Have an EP Edition

I'm fairly new to the Easton Press thing. I've seen the books in people's homes, on eBay, etc. and only just got around to starting a couple subscriptions. Now I find myself pouring through LibraryThing, eBay, Alibris, etc. trying to determine if specific books have been made by EP (this is an inexact science). I'm finding a number of books that have not (which is completely understandable for a variety of reasons) which I would buy in a second...

For me, a few are:

Watership Down
A Town Like Alice
Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (Lovecraft collection?)
Foucault's Pendulum
Gravity's Rainbow

What FIVE books would you most like to see EP make?

No individual books specifically, but I have been pestering EP for nearly a year now to start a Signed First Editions of Fantasy, similar to their Science Fiction series of which I subscribe. They keep saying "we'll forward to your suggestion." That would be great.

1: I totally agree on Dream Quest :)
That would be awesome! They did publish At the Mountains of Madness, and the Dunwich Horror and Others, but that latter book is very hard to find.

I hope they publish more "real" literature and less crapola such as "1000 Wines you must taste before you die"... just my personal opinion of course!

cheers,

-astropi

1) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
2) The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
3) A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson's
4) The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Feynman
AND
5) !!! Harry Potter 7 book set !!!

James Joyce's writings enter the public domain in 2012. His estate has kept a tight hold on publication rights. A Joyce set might be in the offing in a couple of years.

Os.

In no particular order:

the Harry Potter Saga

the Silmarillion

Autobiography of a Yogi

the Time Quintet (if they haven't already)

A People's History of the United States: 1492-PRESENT

I know it isn't EP, but LoA does have a HP Lovecraft volume out that includes 22 of his short stories and novellas, including some of his most well known ones. I know Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness are in there, though Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is unfortunately not included.

>6 DeusExLibrus:

The Silmarillion is part of the Tolkien Classics set in EP. I'm almost positive you could order the book individually as they're all individually wrapped.

For me that I can think of right now:

- Tristan & Iseult
- Harry Potter

I think an RL Stevenson set would be nifty.

What about the "Little House" books? Also, of course, Harry Potter - I keep wondering if there is some copyright obstacle with the Potter books, as neither Easton Press or Folio Society has published them. I also would like to see Revolutionary Road.

elmaynard: Folio HAVE an Harry Potter complete set... but is unavailable in Europe (I'd been told by Folio costumer service, due to copyright issues)
At this moment if I'm not wrong is offered as a joining offer for few bucks oversea... it will be resold sorthly after for huge sum on abebooks et similia...

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Harry-Potter-Folio-Society/dp/B0014WJJR8

>11 TTCdevote: It's not a folio edition even though they sell it - it's the Scholastic set.

Thank you Annie, it wasnt clear to me at all

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:vY3mKOQDObYJ:www.foliosociety.com/book/AZA1...

See message 22 here http://www.librarything.com/topic/43108 (and the ones just before and after this)

annie, when you told:"and the one just before" you should had warned me about the link in message 14...
http://www.librarything.com/topic/783 I couldn't stop reading, but now I feel frustrated not knowing anyone in Italy to whom show off all my formidable and newly acquired knowledge about laundromats :-)

I believe the Little House books have already been done.

>15 TTCdevote: - I meant the ones related to HP :) But isn't it funny what kind of things you end up learning sometimes :)

acidneutral,
Do you know if they are part of a collection, or not currently in print? I don't see them on the website.

Also,
I would love to see some of Neil Gaiman's work - particularly American Gods.

AnnieMod: a lot!

elmaynard:

There is a set on eBay right now....

http://cgi.ebay.com/Easton-Press-LITTLE-HOUSE-ON-THE-PRAIRIE-Laura-Wilder-9_W0QQ...

Look like all 9 books. I believe the printing date was 1995, but I am not certain. That would be nice to see done again, though!

I would love, LOVE to see Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy!

> 20

I believe the prices for the Little House are over valued, I saw a set end for $675 recently in very fine condition while another went for $1275. Prices at times are too undetermined for which listings are genuine or phony bids which has happened multiple times on high end editions. Collectors would prefer sets to be limited and not reproduced once again.

Regarding previous posts ... 'The Silmarillion', 'Little House On The Prairie Series', and 'The Time Quartet' have all been published by E/P at one time. Also, 'Guns, Germs, And Steel' was slated to be published as part of the signed editions of 'The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winners' set. I have never seen a copy of the book or any of the others scheduled as part of the set, however, so I am not sure it ever made it to production.

There are so many titles I would love to see E/P publish I know I won't be able to limit myself to just five ... but here is a list of classics that I would love E/P to consider:

'All Creatures Great And Small' - Herriot
'Bambi: A Life In The Woods' - Salten
'Big Change' - Allen
'Captains Courageous' - Kipling
'Catcher In The Rye' - Salinger
'Cheaper By The Dozen' - Gilbreth
'Death Be Not Proud' - Gunther
'Demian' - Hesse
'Doll's House, A' - Ibsen
'Education Of Little Tree, The' - Carter
'Franny And Zooey' - Salinger
'Future Shock' - Toffler
'Go Ask Alice' - Anonymous
'Goodbye Mr. Chips' - Hilton
'Harry Potter' (set) - Rawlings
'How Green Was My Valley' - Llewellyn
'I Never Promised You A Rose Garden' - Green
'Incredible Journey' - Burnford
'Johnny Tremain' - Forbes
'Karen' - Killilea
'Light In The Forest, The' - Iichter
'Lillies Of The Field' - Barrett
'Lord Of The Flies' - Golding
'Member Of The Wedding' - McCullere
'Men Of Iron' - Pyle
'Miracle Worker, The' - Gibson
'Murder In The Cathedral' - Elliot
'O' Pioneers' - Cather
'Outcasts Of Poker Flats' - Harte
'Pigman, The' - Zindel
'Pillars Of The Earth' - Follett
'Points Of View' - Moffit/McElheny
'Raisin In The Sun' - Hansberry
'Roots' - Haley
'Sunshine' - Klein
'Tuck Everlasting' - Babbitt
'Up A Road Slowly' - Hunt
'Watership Down' - Adams
'When Legends Die' - Borland
'Witch Of Blackbird Pond' - Speare
'Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume' - Jeff Smith

Easton Press ... are you listening?

Y'know as long as this thread has been hanging around I've never had a suggestion for a book to be included, but I just thought of one:

Infinite Jest - by David Foster

I know it's a bit "newish" to be included as an EP volume, but Foster is now deceased, so I guess it's permissible! I think this would be an AWESOME inclusion in an upcoming Reader's Choice collection. Man, I hope EP reads this message board. (but I'm not holding my breath)

P.S. I second your vote for "Catcher in the Rye". That should not only be an EP print, but definitely part of the "great books of the 20th century" collection.

Also, it's good to see another Zindel fan, but I think Pigman is too short a book to deserve its own volume. Perhaps a Zindel collection would be nice, including:

Pigman
Pigman's Legacy
My Darling, My Hamburger
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on my Eyeball!
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Now that book, I would buy!

@ wailofatail: EP did publish All Creatures Great and Small. They had a James Herriot set, and I could kick myself for not buying it.

Some of the books I'd like to see published by EP:

Lord of the Flies - Golding
How Green Was My Valley - Llewellyn
Watership Down - Adams
My Cousin Rachel - du Maurier
Bronte novels
Robert Louis Stevenson novels
Devil in the White City - Larson
The Thirteenth Tale - Setterfield
The Pillars of the Earth - Follett
The Great Train Robbery - Crichton
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Time and Again - Finney
Seabiscuit - Hillenbrand
Sharon Kay Penman Welsh Trilogy
Charles Swindoll's Great Lives collection
some of Alice Hoffman's best works
Harry Potter set

I'd like to see EP reprint:
James Herriot set (Edit: not sure this was ever printed)
Herman Wouk's War & Remembrance and Winds of War
Steinbeck Collection
Out of Africa
Michener collection
Narnia collection
Anne of Green Gables series

... and I'm sure there are others.

indigosky #25: I hope I don't sound arrogant but I think you are wrong about All Creatures Great And Small and the James Herriot set by Easton Press. Of course, if you can show me evidence I will eat my words. There have been sets released of which I was not aware at the time of publication but I think I have caught up with them all sooner or later. I have never seen nor can I find even a trace of such a set.

Again, if I'm mistaken I would sure like to know more about it.

Get a plate, because you're going to have to eat your words, my friend. :) Truly, though, you are the most knowledgeable person I've ever "met" when it comes to Easton Press books. The set was 5 volumes, selling for $59 each. I have a shoebox of fliers I have saved of the sets I wanted, but couldn't afford at the time. I don't remember exactly when these were sold, but it was during the time I was subscribed to the 100 Greatest, so it was sometime between 1998-2008.

You wanted proof, so here you go...

Nomnomnom ... oooh ... these words are bitter.

That is incredible, indigosky! I would never have believed it. I wonder if it ever made it to press? I find it incredible that I have never seen this set come up for auction in all the years I've been collecting these books. I thought I had seen them all. Thank you so much for posting that for me. These five titles have been officially entered into the archive.

This is another quirky aspect of Easton Press that I find quite disturbing, i.e. that they don't make all of their publications readily available to everyone equally. This is one example. The new limited edition Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is another. I used to receive flyers in the mail every day, it seemed. Now, nothing! I find out about new publications from you folks more readily than from Easton Press.

As avid an Easton Press collector that I am and have been for many years, it truly bothers me that E/P publishes books and sells them out without even having given me a chance to participate. Repeatedly I have requested to be included back to their mailing list but still I never receive anything.

I feel like the bitter, literary character who discovers that the affection of his heart's desire is unreciprocated. Easton Press ... come back to me! I love you!

Well, I don't actually know if they ever made it to press, but I do remember them being in a few of the catalogs. I'd love to see your archive. I'll have to start an archive for myself. I had never seen the Michener books until you told me about them the other day, and now they keep popping up on ebay.

I still get fliers from EP, but they don't send as many as they used to. I used to get about 3 or 4 a week, and lots of repeats. It may be because it had been awhile since I ordered anything. It seems strange that they won't put you on the mailing list. Looks like they'd want as much business as they could get.

These last few posts were fantastic fun to read. I will have to agree with Indigosky in saying that Wailofatail is the most knowledgeable person I have ever run across. (With regards to books, that is. Who knows, he might be a quantum physics whiz, or philosophical pundit, but those are questions that have not been answered here. Come to think of it, he may be a she! The profile is very vague...)

Indigosky is right, though, these books probably never went to press. EP does that from time to time, and I've never seen them in any of my ebay searches either.

Repeatedly I have requested to be included back to their mailing list but still I never receive anything.

This has been happening to me too. I get a mixed bag of mailings--sometimes being passed over on the ones I would want most.

I have a theory about this.

I'm beginning to suspect that, in order to save money, EP pigeonholes their mailings based on series subscriptions. I have subscribed and unsubscribed to various series several times over the last 30 years. Although under my current account I have bought a large number of books, there is an even larger number of books (including nearly all of the 100 Greatest series) that I either bought before starting my current "membership" or obtained from outside sources (used bookstores, ebay, etc.).

Perhaps, their computers having no record (under the current account) of my having ever subscribed to the 100 Greatest Series, the mailings that I get are limited to those deemed appropriate to the series to which they know I've subscribed.

The frustrating thing--as expressed more eloquently by wailofatail--is that this automated pigeonholing seems to trump specific requests to the contrary.

I'm not familiar with 'current accounts' v. 'former accounts'. I always presumed that Easton Press kept track of all of their customers for as long as they were able. After all, they advertise that they will never send you a duplicate book from a new collection that you have already purchased from a previous collection without your express consent. They can't do that if they keep assigning you new accounts.

However, I do think you are correct about the profiling. I once ordered a Bible and requested it be sent to my mother's address so as not to spoil a surprise. Ever since, my mom continues to receive flyers with regard to E/P's religious/spiritual publications. My MOTHER can get flyers but I can't!

I asked customer service once in dealing with this issue if a computer determines who gets flyers and I was told this is the case. It seems to me it would make so much more business sense if E/P would simply indicate which books they plan to publish or are considering publishing and see what type of advance reservations they get. They would then have a much better idea of the level of interest and could sell copies to everyone interested.

I think they do this to some degree already. Truly, I think they publish advertisements for books that they have not yet even created. If they don't get enough advance orders they may very well cancel the publication. This is how you end up with books published in catalogues and flyers that ultimately don't even exist. I am personally aware of at least one instance of a book that was advertised in their catalogues, complete with pictures, that, according to Easton Press, was never published. So apparently it does happen. Consequently, in the archives I've distinguished between books for which I've seen advertisements and/or reports from other sources and those for which I have actually witnessed a published copy with verifiable proof. The 'James Herriot's Classics' above goes into the former category until one of us runs across an actual copy. Another set of which I am highly suspect is E/P's 'The World's Greatest Operas', an advertised set of six books of six famous operas. Each book was to include two cds. I have never seen a trace of even one of these books in existence. Any of you ever seen one?

> 23

Looks like Easton were listening wailofatail, as Roots is now available in an Easton edition -

http://www.eastonpressbooks.com/leather/product.asp?code=2552

>27 indigosky: I too have several of those brochures of things I was interested in. I haven't looked at them in a while. It is funny how fast time passes. An offering is made and you just wait for the right financial opportunity where you can afford it and then -poof- it is gone! Or, new offering trumps another - Can you say Famous Editions! :)

Updating my list at post #23 to include: Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume. This would make a great signed edition as well.

One book whose lack of an EP edition frankly puzzles me is Arthur Szyk's Blood and Ink. This was a Heritage Press exclusive, in a limited edition signed by Szyk, and I would have thought EP would own the rights to it. Since I doubt I would ever be able to afford the original edition, this is one EP LE I would love to see published.

I would add Maus by Spiegelman to the list. An autographed copy by EP, would be fantastic! Not to mention the fact that Maus is the ONLY graphic novel ever to win a Pulitzer Prize!

Many yesses on Maus!!

I'm sending in the 'Reservation Application' for my limited, signed edition of Maus today! I can't wait to get it!

Think an e-petition for Maus would have any affect?

Screw a petition to EP; we should all write Art Spiegelman and suggest that he call up EP and offer to sign a DLE edition if they are willing to create one. Now if I could only find out where to write...

The only question is...should Maus I and Maus II be published in a single volume or in two volumes enclosed in a single slipcase?

I'd vote for one volume :)

41:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_I_contact_Art_Spiegelman

it's a start. Also there's this:

http://www.barclayagency.com/spiegelman.html

really would like a Aldous Huxley collection

> 44

Ahh how lovely it would be to have an EP edition of "The Devils of Loudon" my favorite Ken Russell movie, of course along with "Women in Love".

>45 WinterGloaming: I second your vote for "Women in Love", along with the rest of D. H. Lawrence's novels (in case they haven't done him yet).

>46 iluvbeckett:: Actually, they have.

(wailofatail is playing strait man, letting one of us have the punch line):

Women in Love is currently available as part of the Great Books of the 20th century series.

(Badda Boom! **cymbal crash**) As far as other D.H. Lawrence novels go, E/P published the 'D.H. Lawrence 80th Anniversary Edition' collection, which included Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women In Love, and Sons And Lovers.

Lady Chatterley's Lover was later added to the '100 Greatest Books Ever Written' collection as part of the additional twenty-five '100 Greatests'. (Yeah, I can't figure it out either except that the '125 Greatest Books Ever Written' doesn't have quite the same ring.)

The cover designs from the 'D.H. Lawrence 80th Anniversary Edition' collection, which were companion volumes but not identical, were adopted at least for a time as the 'Great Books of the 20th Century' edition of Women In Love and the '100 Greatest Books Ever Written' edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Sons and Lovers was also included in the 2007 Reader's Choice set.

i would be happy about:

1. The Sea of Fertility; tetralogy by Yukio MISHIMA
2. Journey to the West, vol. 1-4 by Wu Cheng'en

I would love to see EP print the 5 books of "The Pendragon Cycle", by Stephen Lawhead.

>51 rsmuc:

A Folio or Easton version of the Sea of Fertility would get me reaching immediately for my wallet!

>51 rsmuc: Yes to both (the Mishima in particular--I loved those four books!)

To that I would add Murasaki Shikibu's Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji)!!

>55 SilentInAWay: The Franklin Library published a beautiful edition of The Tale of Genji, The Uji Chapters, in 1983 in their World's Best Loved Books series. The special introduction and translation is by Edward G. Seidensticker with 15 black and white illustrations by Yamamoto Shunsho. The leather is lavender or light purple with a gold fan design. There are 307 pages.

Sounds beautiful. EP remains my drug of choice, however (although I've been known to take an occasional hit of Folio).

>5 Osbaldistone:

In theory it's 2012...it will work for Dubliners, Portrait, etc...

The error-ridden 1922 edition of Ulysses will be in the public domain, not the standard 1934 random house edition which will enjoy copyright privileges until the year 2030, the 1961 edition until 2057. But an EP set with the 1922 edition could be marketed as containing the historic, "first printing" of Ulysses, or something to that effect.

As E/P is a U.S. company U.S. copyright laws are in force. All works published before 1923 are already in the public domain in the U.S., but no other copyrighted works will enter public domain until 2019. See the Wikipedia article or Chapter 3 of the U.S. Copyright law, Section 304, subsection b: "(b) Copyrights in Their Renewal Term at the Time of the Effective Date of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.7 — Any copyright still in its renewal term at the time that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act becomes effective shall have a copyright term of 95 years from the date copyright was originally secured."

I would love to buy the rest of the "Sharpe's Series." They printed the first three, why not print the rest?

"Lonesome Dove" by Larry Mcmurtry.

The "North and South" trilogy by John Jakes.

"Texas Rangers" by Walter Webb.

"Bonsai Techniques" 1 and 2 by John Naka.

"War on the Run" by John Ross.

Any of Glen Beck's books. (signed of course)

I also would like to see more of the "Sharpe's Seies" as well as "Lonesome Dove".

Another book I would like to see EP publish is "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett in a two-volume edition similar to the Michener novels they published several years ago.

I know we have the Treasury of American Folklore, but I would really like to see EP publish a nice collection of American folklore in an edition similar to Folio Society's nice new set of "Folk Tales of Britain". A set of 2-3 volumes, done well, with two-tone leather, preferably something as beautiful as the Fitzgerald books, and well-illustrated.

http://www.foliosociety.com/book/FKT/folk-tales-of-britain

I own the E/P Treasury of American Folklore and it appears to be quite inclusive. I would much prefer if it had illustrations, but not if it was split into three volumes at $120 each. Much as I like the FS Folk Tales of Britain set, I find that more than I'm willing to pay.

#3>

Please keep in mind that Barnes & Noble has published a very well bound edition of the complete works of Howard P. Lovecraft, with special embossed leather binding and gilt edge pages for only twenty dollars. It is the best quality book I ever bought.

63: I have seen that book and I would not call it paritcularly high quality. The EP Dunwich and Mountains is far higher quality, as is the Centipede Press Lovecraft collection. I would recommend those before the B&N edition, although the B&N edition is of course far cheaper (but I do believe you get what you pay for in the end :)

I am sure that both the EP and Centipede editions of Lovecraft are beautiful (as is the LOA edition of Lovecraft). But for me, when it comes to Lovecraft, only the Arkham House editions will do. It seems to me to be the only authentic way to read Lovecraft.

66: I didn't know there was an "authentic" way to read books? Also, I tend to prefer illustrated books, which for me is the main reason to spend more on a "fine" copy. I don't believe any of the Arkham editions are illustrated (please correct me if I'm wrong).

> 67

They are not illustrated. But they have wonderfully lurid covers and are printed on quite pulpy paper. Just right for Lovecraft.

I can't help thinking that some writers just feel better being read in a non-de luxe edition. Lovecraft is one of those writers. He wrote for the pulp market and a de luxe, leather illustrated Lovecraft just does not feel right - or at least not for this Lovecraft fan. That is what I mean by "authentic".

Also, it was Arkham House that pioneered Lovecraft and were the first publishers to collect his works. Those seminal editions are still in print.

68: but didn't the pulp magazines have illustrations throughout? Also, Weird Tales sold so well in large because of their famous covers.

I actually love pulp stories reprinted on decent (or better) paper.

That inspired my comment on the fine press blog about the Arion Press edition of Jim Thompson's novel. He was never printed on anything but the pulpiest of pulps during his life (and for many years after).

I'd love to see Stephen King's The Stand, The Dark Tower and the Harry Potter Saga.

Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes, for the kid in me that refuses to grow up and pay taxes

73: will likely never happen. If it does, it will be an EP cover only. However, I would recommend you purchase the hardcover complete C&H box set, it's great!

Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
The Gaean Trilogy by John Varley
Any China Mieville
Terry Pratchet
Neil Gaiman

>75 jlabeatnik:: The Scar by China Mieville was included in the 'Signed First Editions Of Science Fiction'.

>75 jlabeatnik:: I guess I'll have to look around for that one on ebay or something.

Individually bound editions of The Complete Tales Of Beatrix Potter, in the pocket size format for us fans of children's picture books.

60: Reviving a dormant thread, I know. But not only is EP releasing Lonesome Dove, they are releasing all four books and Lonesome Dove is signed! It is however, quite expensive.

Come on Easton Press - get the rights to the Harry Potter Saga already!

Could you just imagine EP's strategy for Harry Potter if they did get the rights to reprint it? I could see them trying to sell each book as a $600 DLE, each built only as good as their standard $65 product.

> 81
Precisely! I'm hoping Folio Society beats them to the punch.

Wasn't it Folio Society that released the plain hardcover box set of the seven HP books?

Yep. I thought I had seen that listed as Folio Society published before. Barnes and Noble shows it as Scholastic. I just saw a different entry, for the same box, on Amazon showing it as Folio. I wonder if Folio made some sort of first printing and then subcontracted the subsequent printings. In any case, it's not EP so I apologize for taking us off the Group theme.

EP: If you're reading this, even though you haven't printed any Harry Potter yet, we can already tell you that you're charging too much for it. :-)

I don't know if they've published these but I'd like to see a nice leather bound copy with a nice slipcase of Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye

Frankly, I would love to see EP publish a DLE edition of Potter. If they did charge $600 for such a book, I'm sure there would be "outrage" by a few members of this group. Of course, the book would sell out immediately and prices would rise to the thousands. Then said complainers would complain that the second-hand prices are too high.

>87 JuliusC: 'Catcher in the Rye' would fit very nicely. It should have been in the masterpieces of 20th century collection -- perhaps they could not get the rights.

Regarding Harry Potter --- at some point a fine press edition should happen. I'd be more inclined for an FS edition, but what worries me there is there recent off putting choices for illustrations. I've been quite underwhelmed these past few years. However, since the movies, I expect there is no way to illustrate the main characters without offputting some fans.

>87 JuliusC:: Willa Cather? That would be nice. -Especially in a field of rye, with a bottle of rye. Very atmospheric, that! ;-)

>86 treereader:: Am I mistaken, or did Scholastic (the UK branch?) publish the very first printing of "...The Philosopher's Stone", the one that now sells for tens of thousands of dollars/pounds/whatever currency?

I'm quite pleased with the Harry potter deluxe editions that can be had for about £20 each

>90 iluvbeckett: hahaha clearly I had too many myself....

>91 iluvbeckett:

I have no idea, unfortunately. I just know I've seen the one box set that's supposed to look like a chest listed sometimes as a Folio Society set.

>94 treereader:: My apologies: I double-checked and the first-ever print run of "Philosopher's...(etc.)" was by Bloomsbury (U.K.) in 1997 - around 500 copies, I think. Woe unto anyone lacking the foresight to have picked up a couple of copies at retail back then! (-on second thought, most of those went either to libraries or to people connected to the author, I guess.)

An english Orlando Furioso with these Dore illustrations would be pretty epic. https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dore/gustave/orlando/

Dore was an illustrating machine!!! What hasn't he illustrated?

96: Brilliant! I would love to see all of Dore's work eventually published by Easton Press.

97: Hmmm, he never did the Martian Chronicles. If only he had been around then... imagine the possibilities :)

Captains Courageous is available on both EP and Franklin Library. I have seen the Franklin for as low as $15....I have it...nice copy.

All Bronte, Stevenson are in various EP sets. Plenty on eBay for both EP and Franklin as low as $20. Most Michener come up as sets on eBay and usually don't sell. Which is why I will not list my complete Michener on eBay. No one seems to want them.

Willa Cather available on eBay under Franklin library

I would like to see a better quality and oversized LOTR and Hobbit with the fine color art work in existence by the artists who consulted on the movie. I think their work existed in some of the original Hardback editions. The current green set with runes on the front is disappointing....but better than nothing.

Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon.....maybe the most enlightened Sci-fi ever.

Slipcase simulated leather anniversary edition of autobiography is still available on Abe books. I got one. maybe SRF can get you one.

>102 HugoDumas:

I would like to see a better quality and oversized LOTR and Hobbit with the fine color art work in existence by the artists who consulted on the movie. I think their work existed in some of the original Hardback editions. The current green set with runes on the front is disappointing....but better than nothing.

It would be great to see all the older (pre Fall of Arthur) Tolkien books re-issued with more tasteful/modern cover design (I'm actually OK with the content, as I'm not a fan of illustrations, anyway). The LOTR would probably be really nice if the design emulated the original 1st Edition UK dustjackets (which would be easy in gilt). The Hobbit just needs the dragon design that has been used on most UK editions. Perfect simple gilt-stampable designs already exist for pretty much all the other covers, either produced by the illustrators of later-publications or Tolkien himself.

I live in hope (not very much hope, but a bit).

I hope they don't do more of the covers like the Snyder and History of LOTR books. The design on those is just lazy, excessive and meaningless "fancy work" that bears no relation to the content.

I would add War and Peace in 5 large volumes now having experienced the incredible Routledge DLE reprint of Les Miserables and Count of Monte Cristo. Franklin Library did a fabulous job with their 3 volume edition commemorating the 25th anniversary of Great Books of the Western World (I have a copy). Gorgeous bright red with the Romanoff seal on the binding. Check it out on eBay, there is one out there by our least favorite seller. (I do not know how to paste a picture in a message).

Here is a link to that War and Peace. It is not worth that price....I was able to find 2 copies near mint for $150.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tolstoy-Leo-WAR-AND-PEACE-3-Vols-Franklin-Library-1st-Ed...

Here is another link to Franklin's War and Peace set from abe.com. I agree with skochkin that it is nicely done, as were most volumes in their Great Books of the Western World anniversary edition.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=11496249979&searchurl=pn%3D...

Ladies and gentlemen, that is a great price at Abe and I would grab it if in fine condition. It's the coveted Maude translation too.

As a Robert E. Howard fan, I'd be all over a complete set of all Conan stories and short stories done correctly, in a multi-volume set with great paper and illustrations. I hated the version EP produced earlier -- the paper was cheap as heck, and the sheer size of the book did not bode well for structural integrity over the years, nor for comfort in reading.

Catcher in the Rye with a blind stamp

F Paul Wilson. "The Keep"

>112 Studedoo: I've only read one of the Repairman Jack novels (I don't remember which one) -- what's The Keep like?

Oh, and we should go ahead and get the Game of Thrones signed editions started

> 114

Those would seem more likely to happen than a Harry Potter edition.

>113 SilentInAWay:

I've only read one of the Adversary books, so I'm no expert on the overall plot as it fits into the wider story (including where Repairman Jack fits in). I enjoyed The Keep, though. It is quite atmospheric due to the setting (Carpathian Alps, World War 2). I'm not sure it is high literature or anything, but I certainly enjoyed it. I also have a fondness for the much-hated movie adaptation, even though it IS somewhat ridiculous.

They should totally do this set:

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/picart-bernard-bernard-jean-frederic/r...

The Kite Runner signed edition would be something I'd buy for sure

Orlando Furioso with all of Dore's illustrations would be awesome.
I'd love to see an Easton edition of al-Tabari's History of Prophets and Kings, which seems to be the most important source for Middle Eastern history from Mohammed to 915 AD, and to a lesser extent the Sassanids and their contemporaries. SUNY, which did the English translation, charges $50 each for cheap hardbacks...

>119 Archangel-Michael:
I'd love to see Orlando Furioso too, but don't hold your breath. EP only copies previously published editions, and to my knowledge there has never been an English-language edition with all of Dore's illustrations.

I had to buy a French-language Gargantua and Pantagruel in order to get all 700-plus illustrations. I don't read French, but at least now I can enjoy his fabulous art!

I would love to see EP put out version's of J.R.R. Tolkien's titles The Children of Hurin, Unfinished Tales, Tales From The Perilous Realm, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, and The Complete History of Middle Earth.

Tolkienfan, Easton Press has already printed The Children of Húrin, Unfinished Tales, Tales from the Perilous Realm, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and the following volumes from The History of Middle-earth: The Book of Lost Tales 1, The Book of Lost Tales 2, The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring and Sauron Defeated.

Thanks for the heads up on these titles. I had no idea since I just started collecting EP last year. Much appreciated!

Thought I'd revive this thread as I'm actively filling in my collection with missed favorites. Some great wish lists, particularly Orlando Furioso, but surprised that no one mentioned:
- Magister Ludi - Hesse
- Narcissus & Goldmund - Hesse
- A Clark Ashton Smith collection
- A Mark Twain collection

>124 Mark72:
Easton did a 12-volume Twain set in 1998, and it comes on the market occasionally. For example:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=5594799251&searchurl=pn%3D...

It might be less expensive to buy the volumes separately, though.

>124 Mark72: I wrote EP a long ago to print more Hesse, such as Glass Bead Game. As you are aware they printed Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.

The books I would like to see are by Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God and Dear and Glorious Physician. I have them in the faux leatherette International Collectors Library.

Despite having the Franklin Patrons Edition of Gone with the wind would consider a DLE with about 30 quality color plates. Previous EP 2 volume set was wretched, and I sold it.

Thank you HugoDumas and Jroger1 for the responses. Yes, I have the Steppenwolf and Siddhartha but always wondered why they didn't publish the two books that earned Hesse the Nobel Prize (i.e., Narcissus and Magister Ludi).

I was not aware of the Twain series but will look it up although I suspect it falls short of complete set of Twain's work, including his short stories, esseys, and novelettes (a favorite was Mysterious Stranger).

Can anyone direct me to a complete listing of everything Easton Press has published? I have seen numerous of the lists but never a comprehensive listing.

>127 Mark72:

There is no comprehensive list.

>127 Mark72:
We would all like to have a comprehensive list of EP books, but it does not exist. We are not even sure that EP keeps sufficient records to construct such a list. If you haven't run across it, find the topic in this forum titled "Easton Press Deluxe Limited Editions" in which >128 Wootle: has done us a great service by cataloging the more than 100 DLEs.

The most comprehensive set of Twains that I know of is the Library of America set at the link below. LOA's books aren't fancy and rarely contain illustrations, but they are very well made and never contain flaws like so many of the recent Eastons have.

https://www.loa.org/books/writer/253-mark-twain

Are you aware of the single volume Gone With The Wind that EP published as part of the Great Works of the 20th Century collection? Looks like approximately 29 pages of color plates (numerous are two-page plates that I've counted as two). Illustrated by John Groth - might fall short of your standards.

FYI: many of the lists (by series) are published on www.leather-bound-books.net. I found these when pulling together information for insurance purposes and refer to them periodically when trying to find a favorite book that I might have missed at time of publication. I have been collecting for approximately 40 years and have accumulated ~550 of the EP and Franklin Library editions, most of which are EP.

>131 Mark72: yes that one volume book was the same as the 2 volume piece of rubbish which I sold. EP does this a lot issuing the same work in one and two volumes. In the latter they can double the price and I despise them for this.

>132 HugoDumas: To be fair, this edition of GWTW is a reissue of the original LEC which was published in two volumes.

>133 kdweber: other than this horrible work, they also did it with biographies , Ayn Rand, Dr. zhivago to name a few,

I would love to see a signed limited edition box set from Simon Sinek: Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and The Infinite Game!! At least a release of Start With Why--that book changed my career.

>7 Goran: But not if you live in Canada :(
For some reason their licensing agreement prevents EP from selling to Canadians. I was able to get The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy way back in the 80s. Not sure what changed. It would be nice if I could pick up The Silmarilion.

I wish EP would published all of the books in Asimov’s Robots and Foundation series. There are a few missing (Robots and Empire, Forward the Foundation, The Stars Like Dust, Currents of Space).

Plus, I would like them to publish the other two books in Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos (Fall of Hyperion and Endymion) and his Ilium and Olympos.

Yes, I am a SF & F fan!