Easton Press
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Easton Press, based in Norwalk, Connecticut is a publisher specializing in high-quality leather-bound books. In addition to canonical classics, poetry and art books, they publish a large library of science fiction and popular literature as well. Some of Easton Press's products are arranged in series to which a customer can subscribe, receiving a new book every month. For example, The Library of Great Poetry (25 volumes), The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens (16 volumes) and C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (seven volumes). However, it is possible to order many titles alone.
Easton Press books are highly sought on the secondary market due to their collector value. Scores of Easton Press books can be found on eBay and other trading communities. A few people have been known to collect the books solely for their beauty, never intending to read them.
Almost all Easton Press books have the following traits:
- bound in leather
- distinctive gilt stamped cover designs
- threadsewn pages
- gilded page edges
- permanent satin ribbon page-marker
- endsheets of moire fabric
- 22kt gold-stamped spine accents
However, there is some variance. For instance, the Easton Press library of "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" does not have endsheets of moire fabric, but otherwise it has all the aforementioned traits.
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