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History

Since 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 produced by the Franklin Library books sought by collectors. The books were arranged in a number of series, consisting of 50-100 books each. Customers subscribed to a particular series and received a book each month as long as their subscription was current until the entire series had been delivered. Thus, more than eight years on a book set 100 as the 100 Greatest Books ever written, complete series.

Today, the books can only be acquired on the secondary market. The eBay community is one of the largest online auction sites where collectors are able to buy and sell Franklin Library books, both individually and in batches. Most Titles are also easy to obtain ABEbooks, Amazon and similar sites, or from booksellers and bookstores specializing in antiquarian and collectible books.

Although most of the Franklin Library collections were published in full leather straps (like $ 45 to $ 28 per book), some were also published simultaneously in alternative binders such as "leather" – also called "leather" or leather ($ 19 per book). Like the best-bound books, these especially a better bound books printed on archival paper or acid free paper to prevent yellowing or tanning. They were gold plated and decorated on the covers and the edges of the pages of the book were also plated the paper into gold to protect against damage from humidity. Other books were isued quarter bound in leather ($ 9 per book) – consisting of a "coated fabric" cover with a leather spine, such as the Franklin Mystery Series.

Some of their earlier, smaller collections were bound in "leather bound" (made of leather strips and scraps). This has given rise to a myth that Franklin-bound books in a different doctrine somehow inferior in publishing standards (such as Easton Press). While Some Franklin books are not actually covered with real leather, they are still considered a high level of publishing quality retention.

Of course, the vast majority of their finer collections were bound in the highest degree of publishing ties like real leather, silk pictorial end pages and edges ribbons attached to a bookmark (such as Easton Press). As a cost saving measure, Franklin Library Press Moir went in satin or marbled end sheets and satin ribbons in her autographed first editions series.

In addition to the cost of the book, subscribers were expected to pay shipping and handling charges as well as sales taxes. As time went on, after subscribers were asked to pay higher prices.

First editions

Many publishers in the publishing world, including the original publisher of a book published "Limited first editions" of certain books, especially those of popular authors or books that were of particular importance because Award nominations, movie listings, and reviews. Consequently, they represent a different category of books compared to the typical "trade" edition books.

This "Limited first editions "were published in a limited edition (about 100 to 1000 or even more) and they were issued a specific instruction to set them apart put them through a special honors, including a special bond, a slipcase, hand numbered, a signature of the author or a combination (or all) of the above. Many of these 'special' editions were published simultaneously with the "trade" editions or were sometimes made later.

Some small press publishers actually bought the pages of the original publisher and placed them in a special bond of their own design, she had signed by the author, and she numbered.

Others, such as Easton Press, do their own printing, including using special paper, and they let the "limited first edition" of one year or more after the 'trade' edition is that publish dome thing had a claim of a true "First Edition" somewhat doubtful.

In the case of the Franklin Library, it was their policy to contract for printing Rights "First Edition" with both the author and the first mass-market publishers, so the Franklin Library edition a "true first-edition trade edition" this was before published. "This is something that greatly added to the value of their books. To emphasize this difference or distinction, the Franklin Library" trade " editions carried a statement of "First trade edtion" on the copyright page and had a disclaimer stating that "A first edition of this book signed is privately printed by the Franklin Library Press. "So this statement acknowledges that the" First Edition "published by the Franklin Library Press was indeed the first edition 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" Signed First Edition "? The difference lies in the fact that a" first edition "signed an introduction which was contained in printed The book, which is a "Print" from the signature, but not a 'real' or authentic or personal signature in ink by hand. The "First signed edition "series, something Franklin Library Press began doing in 1983, consisted of a hand-signed authentic and" real "signature made by the author for that special book, usually on a separate page which was then bound in the book. A separate and loosely put tissue paper or onion-skin was placed on the printed page protection.

The series

Due to overlapping range of themes, the same title appears in more than one series, but usually designed with a different binding. Much of the book collections were issued by the Franklin Library "open" or "trade" editions, so no expense figures available are.

Here is a list of the individual series:

100 Greatest books of all time (leather, 1974-1982, $ 28.00, leather, 1973-1986, $ 19.00) First Edition Society (leather, 1976-1980) Pulitzer Prize-series (leather, 1975-1982) 100 greatest masterpieces of American Literature (leather, 1976-1984, $ 35.00) signed in 1960 Limited Editions (leather, 1977-1982, $ 45.00) – (the most spectacular collection) Stories of the World's Greatest Authors (leather, 1977-1985) Top Books 20th Century (Leather, 1977-1982, $ 39.00) World's most popular books (leather, 1977-1986, $ 39.00) large books of the Western world (leather, 1978-1985) – A good to own! The world's great books Family Library (quarter-bound, 1979-1984) Heirloom Library of Greatest books in the world (quarter-bound, 1979-1983) Oxford Library of the World Great Books (quarter-bound, 1981-1985). Note: e-Bay Member book fever examples of at least one episode of this series shows that they were issued also in full leather. Greatest Books of World's Greatest Authors (canvas, 1981-1985) Signed First Edition Society (leather, 1983-2000) Franklin Mystery Series (fabric and leather versions, 1986-1989 – available in either leather or cloth, the leather versions are not selling well and they were discontinued. The leather edition version included a separate list or another, not according same order of cloth editions. Metropolitan Museum of Art (fabric and leather versions, 1987) – a 12-volume set – Each volume highlights the art of a different society and culture. Foreign language editions (early '80) – Franklin also large collections of books published in German (German Masterworks I & II) and Japanese (Japanese Heirloom Library) usually bound in leather or quarter-bound, but with a few editions Sturdite and (possibly only prototypes).

The 100 Greatest Books of All Time (1974-1982)

Considered one of the more popular collections, the titles below bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents from 1974 to 1982.

This series was also published in the same quality paper from 1973, predated the leather-bound series, but with the faux leather or imitation leather bindings with gold / silver printed design papers for the final pages, and gold on the edges of the pages of the book, but without the ribbon bookmark. Some book titles were replaced with others. Books with this type of binding were published after 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 of Aristophanes

Politics by Aristotle

Confessions of St. Augustine

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon

Le Pre Goriot by Balzac honor

The flowers of evil by Charles Baudelaire

Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Tales From The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard F. Burton

The adventures Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Plays of 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

Raver Flanders by Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Philosophical Works of René 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 George Eliot

Collected Poems (1909-1962) by TS Eliot

Essays by 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, Jay and Madison

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Homer's Iliad

Homer's Odyssey

Plays Henrik Ibsen

The Ambassadors by Henry James

Nine stories by Henry James

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Poems of John Keats

Men in Love by DH Lawrence

The Prince by Niccol Machiavelli

Five Stories by Thomas Mann

Moby Dick Herman Melville

Political writings of John Stuart Mill

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Seven Plays by Molire

Four plays by Eugene O'Neill

Political writings of Thomas Paine

Pensees by Blaise Pascal

Satyricon by Petronius

The Republic by Plato

Twelve Illustrious Lives by Plutarch

Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Six Tragedies by Jean Racine

Political writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau

Eight Comedies by William Shakespeare

Six stories William Shakespeare

Poems of William Shakespeare

Six Tragedies of 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 Jonathan Swift

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

Walden by Henry D. Thoreau

History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Virgil's Aeneid

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 1.976 to 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

Wine, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

The collected poems by WH 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

1620-1647 Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford

The Unveiling of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks

By Willa Cather My ntonia

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

It Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper

The collected poems by EE 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 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Dusk of Dawn by WEB Du Bois

Freedom of the will of Jonathan Edwards

The Collected Poems (1909-1962) by TS 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 Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin for 1733-1758

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 by Ernest Hemingway

The Sun is by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

The Sketchbook 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

Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne 14 Jewett

Round Up, the stories of Ring Lardner

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Speeches and writings of Abraham Lincoln

The Call of the Wild Jack London

The collected poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

An anthology Mencken by HL Mencken

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor & The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Typee by Herman Melville

The plays of Arthur Miller

The collected poems of Marianne Moore

Admiral of the Ocean, 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 by 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 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 of Booker T. Washington

Miss Lonely Hearts 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 writer (1977-1985)

The following titles were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents 1977 to 1.985:

Notes from Underground, The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and poor people

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 HG Wells

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Kabbalah, the Bridge of San Luis Rey, and the wife of Thornton Wilder Andros

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 single by Nine Stories Ernest Hemingway

Tales from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

1912 Moon Lake and Other Stories by Eudora Welty

Stories of five decades by Hermann Hesse

Dubliners by James Joyce

A 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 Stories by John Galsworthy

35 stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

38 stories of Saki HH Munro

Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov

13 Stories by Sinclair Lewis

Examples of three novels by Miguel de Cervantes

The Man Who Corrupted Hadley Castle and 18 other stories by Mark Twain

The New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson

21 short stories collected by Aldous Huxley

Seven Tales by Henry James

17 stories by Rudyard Kipling

Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert

22 Stories of Edith Wharton

The Land of the Pointed Firs and Sarah Orne Jewett 4 Stories

Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

Selected stories of 14 W. Somerset Maugham

The Ranger and Other Stories by Zane Grey 3

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote

74 Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

30 stories of Guy de Maupassant

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy 1910

The Troll Garden by Willa Cather & Obscure Fate

Thirteen hours – Stories of different worlds by Stephen Vincent Bent

73 short stories by Katherine Mansfield

The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3 + The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin

7 stories of Booth Tarkington

8 Farmers and Other Stories Anton Chekhov

Heart of 10 Darkness and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad

The Continental Dashiell Hammett On

222 Fables, fully indexed by Aesop

Round Up by Ring Lardner

Stories from all countries and eight other stories by Anthony Trollope

California 16 stories of Bret Harte

1925 Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas

The Magic Barrel and Idiots First by Bernard Malamud

Morning of the death of Thomas Wolfe

45 selected stories by O. Henry

Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Gogol 8

These thirteen by William Faulkner

5 stories by Thomas Mann

Here lies. 1924 Collected Stories by Dorothy Parker

Four short novels of DH Lawrence

Three Christmas Books by Charles Dickens

The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber

Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyon

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Wine, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

4 Tales of ETA Hoffmann

The 5 Wall and Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre

Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus

7 First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev

100 tales of the Brothers Grimm

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift

This Gun for Hire, The Confidential, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene

A Descent into the Maelstrom and 23 other stories by Edgar Allan Poe

10 Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

32 Crazy 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 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 middle of Life – Stories of soldiers and civilians by Ambrose Bierce

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Stories

16 Tales of the Northland by Jack London

Stories & Fairy Tales 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 of George Eliot

36 stories of Alexandre Dumas

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. by Washington Irving

8 Short Stories collected by Carson McCullers

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Around the World in Eighty Days and From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne

60 signed Limited Editions (1977-1982)

Signature of Robert Penn Warren in the Signed Limited Edition of All the King's Men

Considered a 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 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 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 John Cheever

Deliverance by James Dickey

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion

The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy

Advice and consent of 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 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 Moviegoers 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 CP 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's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Selected Poems (1923-1975) of Robert Penn Warren

The Optimist's 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 novel of the 1917 prices start to 1979. The following titles were bound in genuine leather with 22k gold accents from 1975-1980:

1917 no prize for new

1918 his family by Ernest Poole

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkingon

1920 no prize for new

1920 no prize for new

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather

1924 The Able McLaughlin 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 Peters

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 TS Stribling

1934 Lamb in His bosom by Caroline Miller

Now in November 1935 by Josephine Johnson

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis

1937 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

1938 The Late George Grind by John Marquand

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings Kinnane

1940 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck's

No price for new 1941

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 new

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 AB Guthrie, Jr.

The Town by Conrad Richter 1951

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1954 no prize for new

1955 a Fable by William Faulkner

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

1957 no prize for new

1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee

1959 Journey of Jaime Mcpheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

1960 Advice and consent of Allen Drury

1961 to a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Kill

1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner

1964 no prize for new

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 of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

1970 Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

1971 no prize for new

1972 tilt by Wallace Stegner

1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty

1974 the price of new

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

1977 no prize for new

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 the first limited editions of a large number of books. They were distributed to the members of the first edition Society. Initially, the book neither signed nor numbered. Later the name changed to the Society signed first editions, and books issued to members were all signed by the authors, and in some cases were numbered as the restriction.

See also

Easton Press

Folio Society

Oxford Press

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Franklin Mint Porcelain KRISTINA GIBSON GIRL CHRISTMAS HEIRLOOM DOLL NRFB   $190.00

1262 NWOB THE FRANKLIN MINT GIBSON HEIRLOOM GROOM Porcelain Doll Tux Tails 23″ $179.99

NIB Franklin Heirloom Gone w/ the Wind Doll – Melanie, Olivia De Haviland $174.99

Franklin Mint Heirloom “The Wizard of Oz” 19″ Porcelain Doll-RARE! NRFB! RARE! $170.00

Vintage Franklin Heirloom Christening Doll, Seat, Pillow & Rattle Mint Condition $185.00

Franklin Heirloom Mint Doll THE SNOW QUEEN – C.O.A. $149.99

FRANKLIN HEIRLOOM DOLL “Noel Angel” Christmas Doll $169.00

16″ Franklin Heirloom doll marked Maryse Nicole- Limited Edition No. 20896 $165.00

Franklin Heirloom Mint CINDERELLA by Gerda Neubacher $149.99

Franklin Heirloom Mint RAPUNZEL by Gerda Neubacher $149.99

Franklin Heirloom Doll ELIZABETH TAYLOR as VELVET BROWN $149.99

Franklin Mint Porcelain Cleopatra Egyptian Heirloom Doll in Excellent Condition $159.99

FRANKLIN HEIRLOOM DOLL *LADY CECILY ASHWORTH* $164.99

FRANKLIN MINT Heirloom England Queens Elizabeth l & ll Mary l & ll Victoria Doll $174.99

Franklin Mint porcelain doll heirloom Danny Coca Cola $135.00

Wizard of Oz Cowardly Lion Franklin Mint Heirloom 21″ Porcelain Doll – NRFB! $157.50

Wizard of Oz Tinman Franklin Mint Heirloom 21″ Porcelain Doll – NRFB! $157.50

Wizard of Oz Scarecrow Franklin Mint Heirloom 21″ Porcelain Doll-NRFB! $157.50

SET OF 5 WIZARD OF OZ PORCELAIN DOLLS FRANKLIN HEIRLOOM LARGE $149.00

Vintage Franklin Heirloom Fine Porcelain Doll – Beautiful Victorian Lady $149.99

FRANKLIN MINT HEIRLOOM DOLL BALLERINA 19″: BISQUE ANNA PAVLOVA ODETTE SWANLAKE $150.00

The Goose Girl, The Franklin Heirloom Dolls $150.00

Little Red Riding Hood, The Franklin Heirloom Dolls $150.00

Franklin Mint Princess Grace State Portrait Porcelain Heirloom Doll RARE $159.99

Melanie 20″ Franklin Mint Heirloom Porcelain Doll Gone with the Wind Olivia $149.99

Franklin Mint JFK John F Kennedy President Heirloom Doll NRFB $145.00

Collectible Doll- Franklin Mint Heirloom-Irish Blessing $139.99

Franklin Mint Heirloom Doll Victorian Pleasure Series $150.00

Franklin Mint Heirloom Doll Victorian Pleasure Series $150.00

80s Franklin Heirloom Doll -18″ Gibson Little Girl $150.00

Franklin Heirloom Doll Elizabeth Ann $150.00

Pamela by Maryse Nicole Franklin Mint Heirloom Victorian Parasol Doll 15″ $129.99

Maryse Nicole Isabelle Franklin Mint Heirloom Victorian Parasol 15″ – Lavender $129.99

Maryse Nicole Melinda Franklin Mint Heirloom Victorian Parasol Doll 15″ -Peach $129.99

80s Franklin Heirloom Doll -18″ Gibson Little Girl-MIB $149.99

JACQUELINE KENNEDY FRANKLIN MINT HEIRLOOM BRIDE PORCELAIN DOLLWITH TAG’S $135.00 $135.00

Franklin Mint Heirloom Porcelain Doll “Mary Mary” Quite Contrary – Vintage 1988 $129.95

Franklin Heirloom 23″ doll – “The Bride” on Stand – NWT #SNYDER $124.95

Franklin Heirloom Porcelain “Little Bo Peep”Doll $130.00

Franklin Heirloom Colleen County Cork Musical Doll Limited Edition By A Jackson $139.99

Franklin Mint Heirloom Porcelain 18″ Jazz Blues Big Band 1940′s Era Doll $125.00

Franklin Mint 1st Annual Gibson Girl Christmas Heirloom Doll Kristina 21″ $125.00

1990 Franklin Heirloom Maryse Nicole LINDSAY MARIE II Porcelain Collectible Doll $119.99

Lrg Franklin Mint – Heirloom Heritage Gibson WEDDING DOLL – New In Box RARE $129.99

BOB MACKIE Couture Porcelain Model Marissa Doll Franklin Heirloom 1992 NIB 18″ $129.99

Vintage -1987 “Little Bo Peep” Franklin Heirloom Doll NEW IN BOX $110.00

stunning franklin heirloom imperial chinese baby doll $100.00

Franklin Heirloom RHETT BUTLER of Gone With The Wind $99.99

Franklin Heirloom Cinderalla & Prince Charming Dolls $120.00

Franklin mint Fabrege heirloom doll Queen of the Masquerade Retired limited ed $99.00

Vintage Franklin Heirloom House of Faberge Porcelain Doll Victorian Era $99.99

FRANKLIN HEIRLOOM DOLL / BOX $99.99

16″ Franklin Heirloom Limited Edition EMILY $99.95

Jacqueline Kennedy Heirloom Bride Doll Franklin Heirloom Dolls $100.00

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