List of the 60 Franklin Library Signed Limited Editions

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. 

1. 1977 – Allen Drury – Advise and Consent – $110
2. 1977 – Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men – $395
3. 1977 – Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny – $160
4. 1977 – Leon Uris – Exodus – $190
5. 1977 – John Updike – Rabbit Run – $110
6. 1977 – Louis Auchincloss – The Rector of Justin – $85
7. 1977 – Bruce Catton – A Stillness in Appomattox – $110
8. 1978 – John Kenneth Galbraith – The Affluent Society – $120
9. 1978 – John Hersey – A Bell for Adano – $75
10. 1978 – Wallace Stegner – The Big Rock Candy Mountain – $195
11. 1978 – Joseph Heller – Catch 22 – $385
12. 1978 – Alan Paton – Cry the Beloved Country – $115
13. 1978 – Jean-Paul Sartre – Five Plays – $295
14. 1978 – J.P. Donleavy – The Ginger Man – $95
15. 1978 – Philip Roth – Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories – $150
16. 1977 – Irving Stone – The Agony and the Ecstasy – $195
17. 1978 – Mary McCarthy – The Group – $85
18. 1978 – Gerald Green – The Last Angry Man – $85
19. 1978 – Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five – $385
20. 1978 – John Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle – $85
21. 1979 – Gore Vidal – Burr – $130
22. 1979 – William Styron – Confessions of Nat Turner – $130
23. 1979 – Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon – $120
24. 1979 – John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman – $115
25. 1979 – James Baldwin – Go Tell It on the Mountain – $225
26. 1979 – Erskine Caldwell – God’s Little Acre – $95
27. 1979 – Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead – $195
28. 1979 – Truman Capote – Other Voices, Other Rooms – $385
29. 1979 – Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex – $245
30. 1979 – Joyce Carol Oates – Them – $95
31. 1979 – Arthur Schlesinger – A Thousand Days – $295
32. 1979 – Irwin Shaw – The Young Lions – $110
33. 1979 – James Ferrell – Young Lonigan – $70
34. 1980 – Arthur Miller – Collected Plays – $455
35. 1980 – Bruce Catton – The Coming Fury – $125
36. 1980 – Isaac Singer – Gimpel the Fool – $95
37. 1980 – Theodore H. White – In Search of History – $125
38. 1980 – Ralph Ellison – The Invisible Man – $385
39. 1980 – Lawrence Durrell – Justine – $110
40. 1980 – Walker Percy – The Moviegoer – $240
41. 1980 – Eudora Welty – The Optimist’s Daughter – $165
42. 1980 – Tennessee Williams – Selected Plays – $795
43. 1980 – Morris West – Shoes of the Fisherman – $155
44. 1980 – John Barth – The Sot-Weed Factor – $150
45. 1981 – C.P. Snow – The Affair – $90
46. 1981 – Mary McCarthy – Birds of America – $90
47. 1981 – Joan Didion – A Book of Common Prayer – $90
48. 1981 – James Dickey – Deliverance – $295
49. 1981 – Joseph P. Lash – Eleanor and Franklin – $140
50. 1981 – Allen Drury – A God Against the Gods – $90
51. 1981 – Gore Vidal – Julian – $145
52. 1981 – Irving Stone – Lust for Life – $195
53. 1981 – Herman Wouk – Marjorie Morningstar – $195
54. 1981 – Antonia Fraser – Mary, Queen of Scots – $140
55. 1981 – John Updike – Rabbit Redux – $135
56. 1981 – Robert Penn Warren – Selected Poems 1923-1975 – $795
57. 1982 – John Fowles – The Collector – $165
58. 1982 – Joseph Heller – Good As Gold – $120
59. 1982 – William Styron – Lie Down in Darkness – $125
60. 1982 – John Hersey – The Wall – $125