Easton Press

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The 2006 Early-Summer Easton Press Catalog.
The 2006 Early-Summer Easton Press Catalog.

Easton Press, a division of MBI Inc. 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.

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[edit] Book traits

Almost all Easton Press books have the following traits:

  • bound in leather with raised hubs on the spine
  • distinctive gilt stamped cover designs
  • threadsewn pages
  • gilded page edges
  • permanent satin ribbon page-marker
  • endsheets of moiré 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 moiré fabric, but otherwise it has all the aforementioned traits.

[edit] Popular collections

[edit] The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

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[edit] Library of the Presidents

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Andrew Jackson

  • The Border Captain by Marquis James
  • Portrait of a President by Marquis James

Benjamin Harrison:

  • Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior by Harry J. Sievers

Calvin Coolidge:

  • A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge by William Allen White

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

  • The Eisenhower Diaries by Robert H. Ferrell

Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox by James MacGregor Burns
  • Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns

Franklin Pierce:

  • Young Hickory of the Granite Hills by Roy Franklin Nichols

George Washington:

  • The Washington Papers edited by Saul K. Padover
  • Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman

Gerald Ford:

  • A Time to Heal

Harry S. Truman:

  • Harry S. Truman by Margaret Truman
  • Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman edited by Robert H. Ferrell

James Buchanan:

  • President James Buchanan by Philip Shriver Klein

James Madison:

  • The Complete Madison: His Basic Writing edited by Saul K. Padover
  • The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison by Irving Brant

James Monroe:

  • James Monroe by W. P. Cresson

James K. Polk:

  • Jacksonian, Volume 1

Jimmy Carter:

  • Always a Reckoning
  • Everything To Gain
  • Turning Point
  • Blood Of Abraham
  • Outdoor Journal
  • Why Not The Best?
  • A Government As Good As Its People

John Adams:

  • The Works of John Adams, Volume 2

John F. Kennedy:

  • Just Friends and Brave Enemies
  • A Nation of Immigrants
  • Profiles in Courage
  • The Enemy Within
  • Why England Slept

John Quincy Adams:

  • Volume I: And the Foundation of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
  • Volume II: And the Union by Samuel Flagg Bemis

John Tyler:

  • and Tyler too, A Biography of John and Julia Gardiner Tyler by Robert Seager II

Martin Van Buren:

  • Martin Van Buren by John Niven

Richard Nixon:

  • The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Volume 1
  • The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Volume 2

Theodore Roosevelt:

Thomas Jefferson:

  • Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation by Merrill D. Peterson
  • The Writings of Thomas Jefferson edited by Saul K. Padover

Ulysses S. Grant:

  • Grant, A Biography by William S. McFeely

William Howard Taft:

  • The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" by Henry F. Pringle

Zachary Taylor:

  • Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House by Holman Hamilton

Other:

  • Speeches of the American Presidents, Volume 2
  • The First Ladies Fact Book"
  • T.R.: The Last Romantic
  • Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
  • President Kennedy
  • All the Best, George Bush
  • A Time to Heal
  • An American Life
  • Keeping Faith
  • Washington
  • James Monroe
  • Abraham Lincoln



[edit] Horror Classics

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[edit] Masterpieces of Science Fiction

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[edit] Science Classics

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[edit] Books That Changed the World

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[edit] Great Books of the 20th Century

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[edit] Military History: The Masterpiece Library

Includes:

  • The Histories
  • The Art of War
  • The Rommel Papers
  • The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
  • On War
  • The Gallic Wars
  • Crusade in Europe
  • The Military Maxims of Napoleon

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