Books Published

~Selection of titles~

Selection of first editions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries books encompassed literary importance, historical significance and author recognition. Publishing was based on copyright considerations and availability of the original. First Edition Library eventually produced one hundred eleven titles and could be categorized:

BANDED BOOKS SERIES

'Published in Paris or Banned Import Books series: 3 titles published in clam-shell boxes instead of slipcases. Also, none of the three books possess information cards; rather, there is a single informational brochure referring to all three.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Ulysses by James Joyce

JAMES BOND SERIES

All fourteen titles by Ian Fleming

Casino Royale 1953 - 1st original

Diamonds are Forever 1956 - 4th original

Dr. No 1958 - 6th original

For Your Eyes Only 1960 - 8th original- art Richard Chopping 1st FEL

From Russia with Love 1957 - 5th original - 1st Richard Chopping cover

Goldfinger 1959 - 7th original - art Richard Chopping

Live and Let Die 1954 - 2nd original

Man with the Golden Gun 1965 - 13th original - posthumously - art Chopping

Moonraker 1955 - 3rd original

Octopussy 1966 - 14th original - posthumously - art Chopping

On Her Majesty's Service 1963 - 11th original - art Richard Chopping

Spy Who Loved Me 1962 - 10th original - art Richard Chopping

Thunderball 1961 - 9th original - Spectre introduced - art Chopping

You Only Live Twice 1964 - 12th original - art Richard Chopping

ETHNIC BOOKS

Go Tell It On The Mountain * by James Baldwin

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

Invisible Man* by Ellison, Ralph

Native Son * by Richard Wright

Miss Lonelyhearts by West, Nathaneal

Separate Peace by John Knowles

MYSTERY SERIES

Comprised of 13 titles published in collaboration with Otto Penzler, the noted publisher and proprietor of the Mystery Book Shop in NYC.
FEL titles were issued with slipcases and publisher's lay-in card.
Penzler were printed as a limited edition of 2,500 copies with red stripe lay-in card and without slipcases.

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Dragon Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine

House without a Key by Earl Der Biggers,

I, The Jury by Mickey Spillane

Little Caesar by W.R. Burnett

Little Sister by Raymond Chandler

Phantom Lady by William Irish

Postman Always Rings Twice by James M.Cain

Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen

Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Farewell My Lovely * by Raymond Chandler

Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara

SCIENCE FICTION SERIES

Books that influenced many aspects of modern popular culture particularly with respect to Science Fiction and technology.

Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury

Beyond This Horizon by Robert Heinlein

Dreadful Sanctuary by Eric Russell

Earthman Come Home by James Blish

Grey Lensman by Edward E. Smith

I, Robot by Issac Asimov

Legion of Space by Jack Williamson

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Shambleau by C.L. Moore

Star Man's Son by Andre Norton

Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Lewis Padgett

Weapon Makers by A.E. Vogt

Who Goes There by John Campbell

LITERARY BOOKS

Absalom, Absalom * by William Faulkner

Age of Innocence * by Edith Wharton

All the King’s Men * by Robert Penn Warren

As I Lay Dying * by William Faulkner

Augie March by Saul Bellow

Awakening by Kate Chopin - No dust-jacket as Original

Babbitt * by Sinclair Lewis

Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 2nd FEL ??

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Catch- 22 * by Joseph Heller

Deliverance by James Dickey

East of Eden * by John Steinbeck

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Farewell to Arms * by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls* by Ernst Hemingway - 1st FEL ??

Fountainhead * by Ayn Rand

From Here to Eternity * by James Jones

God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell

Gone With The Wind * by Margaret Mitchell

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Copyright - Collector's Reprints

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 2nd FEL ??

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Huckelbury Finn * by Mark Twain - No dust-jacket as Original

Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jungle by Upton Sinclair - No dust-jacket as Original

Kill a Mockingbird , To * by Harper Lee

Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron

Light in August by William Faulkner

Look Homeward, Angel * by Thomas Wolfe - 4th issue of FEL ??

Main Street * by Sinclair Lewis

Men Without Women * by Ernst Hemingway

Mice and Men, Of * by John Steinbeck - 3rd FEL ??

Mosquitoes * by William Faulkner

My Antonia * by Willa Cather

Naked and the Dead * by Norman Mailer

Old Man and the Sea * by Ernst Hemingway

On The Road * by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest * by Ken Kesey, Ken

Pearl by John Steinbeck

Rabbit Run by John Updike

Red Badge of Courage* by Stephen Crane - No dust-jacket as Original

Red Pony by John Steinbeck - No dust-jacket as Original

Reivers by William Faulkner

Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner

Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

South Pacific by James Mitchner

Sun Also Rises * by Ernst Hemingway

Tarzan of the Apes * by Edgar Burroughs

Tender is the Night * by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise * by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tobacco Road * by Erskine Caldwell

Tom Sawyer * by Mark Twain - No dust-jacket as Original

Tortilla Flat * by John Steinbeck

Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Yearling by Majorie Rawlings


* Easton Press purchased publishing rights - Latter day Easton books published w/o slipcase


Not Published:
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley