The following highly collectible Franklin Library Signed Editions were published between 1977 and 1982. They are all fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contain gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers. Signatures are protected by unattached tissue inserts.
The values listed are average prices that were sought by booksellers at the market cycle top of the collectible book selling market in 2007 during after the Pop in U.S. Housing Bubble and prior to the full blown World Economic Collapse. It should be noted that these prices would be for books in pristine or like new condition.
- 1977 – Allen Drury – Advise and Consent – $110
- 1977 – Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men – $395
- 1977 – Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny – $160
- 1977 – Leon Uris – Exodus – $190
- 1977 – John Updike – Rabbit Run – $110
- 1977 – Louis Auchincloss – The Rector of Justin – $85
- 1977 – Bruce Catton – A Stillness in Appomattox – $110
- 1978 – John Kenneth Galbraith – The Affluent Society – $120
- 1978 – John Hersey – A Bell for Adano – $75
- 1978 – Wallace Stegner – The Big Rock Candy Mountain – $195
- 1978 – Joseph Heller – Catch 22 – $385
- 1978 – Alan Paton – Cry the Beloved Country – $115
- 1978 – Jean-Paul Sartre – Five Plays – $295
- 1978 – J.P. Donleavy – The Ginger Man – $95
- 1978 – Philip Roth – Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories – $150
- 1977 – Irving Stone – The Agony and the Ecstasy – $195
- 1978 – Mary McCarthy – The Group – $85
- 1978 – Gerald Green – The Last Angry Man – $85
- 1978 – Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five – $385
- 1978 – John Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle – $85
- 1979 – Gore Vidal – Burr – $130
- 1979 – William Styron – Confessions of Nat Turner – $130
- 1979 – Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon – $120
- 1979 – John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman – $115
- 1979 – James Baldwin – Go Tell It on the Mountain – $225
- 1979 – Erskine Caldwell – God’s Little Acre – $95
- 1979 – Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead – $195
- 1979 – Truman Capote – Other Voices, Other Rooms – $385
- 1979 – Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex – $245
- 1979 – Joyce Carol Oates – Them – $95
- 1979 – Arthur Schlesinger – A Thousand Days – $295
- 1979 – Irwin Shaw – The Young Lions – $110
- 1979 – James Ferrell – Young Lonigan – $70
- 1980 – Arthur Miller – Collected Plays – $455
- 1980 – Bruce Catton – The Coming Fury – $125
- 1980 – Isaac Singer – Gimpel the Fool – $95
- 1980 – Theodore H. White – In Search of History – $125
- 1980 – Ralph Ellison – The Invisible Man – $385
- 1980 – Lawrence Durrell – Justine – $110
- 1980 – Walker Percy – The Moviegoer – $240
- 1980 – Eudora Welty – The Optimist’s Daughter – $165
- 1980 – Tennessee Williams – Selected Plays – $795
- 1980 – Morris West – Shoes of the Fisherman – $155
- 1980 – John Barth – The Sot-Weed Factor – $150
- 1981 – C.P. Snow – The Affair – $90
- 1981 – Mary McCarthy – Birds of America – $90
- 1981 – Joan Didion – A Book of Common Prayer – $90
- 1981 – James Dickey – Deliverance – $295
- 1981 – Joseph P. Lash – Eleanor and Franklin – $140
- 1981 – Allen Drury – A God Against the Gods – $90
- 1981 – Gore Vidal – Julian – $145
- 1981 – Irving Stone – Lust for Life – $195
- 1981 – Herman Wouk – Marjorie Morningstar – $195
- 1981 – Antonia Fraser – Mary, Queen of Scots – $140
- 1981 – John Updike – Rabbit Redux – $135
- 1981 – Robert Penn Warren – Selected Poems 1923-1975 – $795
- 1982 – John Fowles – The Collector – $165
- 1982 – Joseph Heller – Good As Gold – $120
- 1982 – William Styron – Lie Down in Darkness – $125
- 1982 – John Hersey – The Wall – $125
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