Nobel Prize Winners and Fine Press

With the Nobel prize winners in the news lately, I got to wondering how many past recipients have had their works published in fine press editions. In addition to some Folio Society editions, I have Thornwillow’s T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland and Arion Press’ Seamus Heaney’s Stone from Delphi. I’ll be purchasing Arion’s new Steinbeck when it comes out and am always on the lookout for the LEC version of Snow Country in fine condition, but are there other gems that are out there that I should be aware of?

Not fine press perhaps, but Franklin Library published an extensive set of leatherbound Nobel Prize winners.

Correction: it was a set of Pulitzer Prize winners, but several had also won Nobels.

Rampant Lion published T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' which is a lovely edition to own as well.

The Schiff-era LEC has several I can recall -- Günter Grass, Seamus Heaney, Octavio Paz, Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel García Márquez, Czeslaw Milosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Pablo Neruda, Yasunari Kawabata

I can’t yet speak to their quality, as I don’t have them in hand as of yet, but No Reply Press did fine press editions of T.S. Eliot’s Preludes and The Hollow Men.

Both the LEC and Arion Press have had a few Nobel Prize winners sign their books. Same with Easton Press, in fact I would say EP has had quite a few, although EP is not technically "fine press".

Thank you all. This definitely gives me further works to look out for. I was surprised by all the T.S. Eliot available, though I too am waiting for the No Reply Press editions to arrive. After posting this I broke down and bought a LEC version of One Thousand Years of Solitude. It’s my first LEC, so I’m very curious to see how it compares with the other publishers in my fine press collection.

>4 gmacaree: Also Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Pasternak, Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott, Eugene O'Neill - Schiff did publish quite a few. And many of them are signed by authors!

During the Macy and the interim years Nobel laureates weren't as frequently published, but I can still think of Steinbeck, Hemingway, Hesse, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Kipling, Yeats, a few Shaw plays, a few titles by Anatole France (must be one of Macy's most published authors), Sinclair Lewis, and Galsworthy.