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Year-Long Subscriptions
Four times each year we create a new Quarterly Limited Edition incorporating different designs, papers, and themes. Start a year-long subscription today and enjoy the following benefits:
Year-Long Subscriptions are $110 and in the U.S.A. they ship free. For all other countries there is a one-time $20 shipping charge added during checkout. This covers all four shipments.
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Current Quarterly Edition
50 and Counting!
FNC-50: Spring 2021
Fifty
Edition Size: 32,500 Packs
We’ve gone back to basics for this edition. Simple, beautiful, “Red Hot” French Paper Co. covers with silver metallic ink + a Stamp Set. Subscribers get the “Anniversary Desk Ledger” too.
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FNC-49: Winter 2020
Snowy Evening
Edition Size: 33,333 Packs
Each snowflake is different, so the cover illustration on each one of 99,999 Memo Books is too. The “Snowy Evening,” our Limited Edition for Winter
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FNC-48: Fall 2020
United States of Letterpress
Edition Size: 40,000 Packs
Our 48th Quarterly Release for the Fall of 2020 is the “United States of Letterpress,” and features the work of nine independent letterpress shops from across America.
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FNC-47: Summer 2020
Heavy Duty
Edition Size: 25,000 Packs
FNC-47, The “Heavy Duty” Edition. A pair of memo-sized Work Books, durable enough for your toughest assignments.
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FNC-46: Spring 2020
Vignette
Edition Size: 35,000 Packs
Our 46th seasonal release for Spring 2020 is the “Vignette” Edition. The covers are personalizable. Just add your own images. Subscribers get a complete set of FN Insert Cards.
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FNC-45: Winter 2019
Group Eleven
Edition Size: 37,500 Packs
Our 45th seasonal release for Winter is the “Group Eleven” Edition. Three standard Dot-Graph Memo Books. But aside from the size, there’s not much standard about them.
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FNC-44: Fall 2019
Autumn Trilogy
Edition Size: 35,000 Packs
The “Autumn Trilogy” Edition is deceptively simple. Subscribers received a “Nathaniel Hawthorne Field Notes Pocket Handkerchief.
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FNC-43: Summer 2019
National Parks
Edition Size: 60,000 Packs
Our 43rd seasonal release for Summer is the “National Parks” Series. Nine Memo Books featuring nine American National Parks in three 3-Packs, celebrating America’s “Best Idea.”
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FNC-42: Spring 2019
Mile Marker
Edition Size: 35,000 Packs
Our 42nd seasonal release for Spring is the “Mile Marker” Edition, which celebrates the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Subscribers received a sweet Nat’l Highway Map free.
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FNC-41: Winter 2018
Clandestine
Edition Size: 37,500 Packs
There’s a lot more than meets the eye to this edition. It’s all about secret codes and ciphers and features a 3-part history of cryptography. Subscribers receive a special “Cipher Wheel.”
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FNC-40: Fall 2018
End Papers
Edition Size: 32,000 Packs
Our 2018 Fall Release is a 2-Pack of Journals sporting a new profile, marbled End Papers and Smyth-sewn bindings.
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FNC-39: Summer 2018
Three Missions
Edition Size: 50,000 Packs
Our 2018 Summer Release celebrates American space flight with Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Memo Books and “Punch Out and Assemble” Crew Capsule Models. Subscribers also receive a sweet Water Transfer Decal.
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FNC-38: Spring 2018
Coastal
Edition Size: 35,000 Packs
Field Notes’ Spring 2018 quarterly limited edition (our 38th!) features two 3-Packs of Memo Books, separated by 2,800 miles. The “Coastal” Edition is a celebration of the left and right edges of the U.S.A..
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FNC-37: Winter 2017
Resolution
Edition Size: 35,000 Packs
Two Checklist Journals and a Date Book. Cyan, White, & Red Covers stamped with Crown Foil. Tools to help you get it together.
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FNC-36: Fall 2017
Dime Novel
Edition Size: 27,500 Packs
An homage to Beadle’s Dime Novels from the 1860s. A great story and a new (and old) format, that took us 157 years to make. Subscribers got a sweet one-inch button.
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FNC-35: Summer 2017
Campfire
Edition Size: 30,000 Packs
Three unique covers, made with bold line screens and solid spot colors. A “Campfire Master” patch included in each pack.
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FNC-34d: Subscriber Exclusive
Blue Book
A Surprise Shipment
In the spring of 2017, we surprised all our active subscribers with free shipment of three exam Blue Books.
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FNC-34: Spring 2017
Utility
Edition Size: 35,000 Packs
Hard-working, high-visibility memo books that are ready for anything. Two styles are available, Engineer Grid and Ledger. (Subscriber Extra: an “After Hours” Bottle Opener)
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FNC-33: Winter 2016
Black Ice
Edition Size: 30,000 Packs
Dark metallic foil on the covers, a flood of orange on the insides, Black Ice has ruled pages, PUR-Binding and comes with custom Wrapping Paper.
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FNC-32: Fall 2016
Lunacy
Edition Size: 35,000 Packs
Die-cut, embossing, instructions on how to avoid becoming a werewolf, special 4-Pack for subscribers. It’s Lunacy!
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FNC-31: Summer 2016
Byline
EDITION SIZE: 25,000 PACKS
The sight of one being whipped out and flipped open is a sure sign that somebody is about to write down something important. (Subscriber Extra: a “Power of the Pen” Laptop Sticker)
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FNC-30a: Subscriber Exclusive
Personalized Reprints
A Surprise Shipment
In the spring of 2016, we surprised all our active subscribers with free Commemorative Reprints of our very first editions, Butcher Orange and Butcher Extra Blue, and we personalized them by printing each subscriber’s name on the belly-band!
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FNC-30: Spring 2016
Sweet Tooth
EDITION SIZE: 30,000 PACKS
Each book is a solid block of bright color all the way through, with a Field Notes first: perforated pages!
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FNC-29: Winter 2015
Snowblind
EDITION SIZE: 25,000 PACKS
The white covers turn blue in bright sunlight! The cover text sparkles with “interference” pearlescent ink. Inside you’ll find 60# paper with a very light gray graph.
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FNC-28: FALL 2015
Shenandoah
EDITION SIZE: 40,000 PACKS
Watch fall arrive as you open the covers this edition. Three green books, “Sweet Birch,” “Chestnut Oak,” and “Red Maple” open to reveal the trees’ fall colors in custom-duplexed French papers. There’s graph paper inside, and they’re wrapped in a birch veneer bellyband. (Subscriber Extra: Set of 3 buttons)
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FNC-27: SUMMER 2015
Workshop Companion
EDITION SIZE: 17,000 BOX SETS
Workshop Companion is a boxed set with six books to help you with all those DIY projects around the house. Wood Working, Automotive, Plumbing, Gardening, Painting, and Electrical books on French “Kraft-Tone” stock, in a custom slipcase with decal sheet. (Subscriber Extra: Toolbox Magnet)
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FNC-26: SPRING 2015
Two Rivers
EDITION SIZE: 40,000 PACKS
Sales of this Quarterly Edition benefited the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. Featuring a variety of hand-set wood type designs in a variety of colors on mixed French papers, these have our standard graph paper inside and are bound with copper staples.
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FNC-25: WINTER 2014
Ambition
EDITION SIZE: 30,000 PACKS
Ambition 3-Packs feature a Speckletone “Olive” ledger, “Chocolate” 56-week planner and “Wine” graph memo book. Did we mention the page edges are gilded in gold?
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FNC-24: FALL 2014
Unexposed
EDITION SIZE: 20,000 PACKS
A mystery right up until they’re opened! Each 3-Pack is hidden in an opaque black sleeve with a random selection of three of six bright new versions inside. You didn’t know what you ordered and we didn’t know what we shipped.
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FNC-23: SUMMER 2014
Arts and Sciences
EDITION SIZE: 25,000 PACKS
Our first “Note Book” sized Quarterly Edition included an “Arts” book with a wine-colored cover and alternating plain/ruled pages, and a “Sciences” book in slate gray with plain/engineering graph paper inside. Both are packed with useful facts and subscribers received a pair of matching 1½" buttons.
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FNC-22: SPRING 2014
Shelterwood
EDITION SIZE: 25,000 PACKS
Real American Cherry veneer was fused to a kraft substrate, creating a real wood cover, a first. Inside find heavy Finch Fine “Soft White” paper ruled in “Maidenhair” light green.
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FNC-21: WINTER 2013
Cold Horizon
EDITION SIZE: 20,000 PACKS
This edition sports an icy-blue gradient that carries across three very glossy UV-coated 120-lb Appleton Utopia One covers. The insides are graph paper on a Finch Opaque 50-lb text stock, tinted a different color in each book; light green, light blue, and cool gray.
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FNC-20: FALL 2013
Drink Local
EDITION SIZE: 10,000 of Each 3-Pack
One 3-Pack for Ales and one for Lagers feature heavyweight New Page Sterling Premium 120# covers with a “soft touch” varnish. Each of the six books represents a different brew, with a brief history of each style on the back cover. Subscribers also received a handy 6-Pack carrier.
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FNC-19: SUMMER 2013
Night Sky
EDITION SIZE: 15,000 PACKS
Covers made from French Construction “Blacktop” 100# cover paper with grey text and three groups of constellations highlighted in silver holofoil on the back. The insides are Finch Opaque “Bright White” text paper, with a grey “reticle-graph” pattern.
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FNC-18: SPRING 2013
America the Beautiful
EDITION SIZE: 15,000 PACKS
Our first edition to feature full-color photographic covers; “Spacious Skies,” “Amber Waves,” and “Mountain Majesty” are printed on a meaty 15pt coated-one-side cover stock with 1960s imprecision. Inside is Finch Fine “Soft White” paper ruled in “looseleaf blue.” A vintage-style water-transfer decal was also included.
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FNC-17: WINTER 2012
Expedition
FIRST PRINTING: 20,000 PACKS
Hi-visibility “Antarctic Survey Orange” front cover and “Polar Night Black” back cover, with a subtle varnish effect featuring a topographic map of Antarctica. Body pages feature dot-graph paper. Printed on waterproof, tear-resistant Yupo Synthetic Paper.
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FNC-16: FALL 2012
Traveling Salesman
EDITION SIZE: 8,000 PACKS
Paying tribute to the door-to-door salesmen who moved product and kept the American economy humming throughout the last century, this edition features “Hot Fudge” covers from French Paper printed with a metallic gold ink and embossed logo. Interior pages are “Eye-Ease” green with green and red ledger rules.
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FNC-15: SUMMER 2012
Day Game
EDITION SIZE: 6,000 PACKS
Perfect with peanuts and Cracker Jack, “Day Game” features foil-printed Outfield Green, Infield Brown, and Hardball White 100# French Paper covers with dot-graph paper inside. The edition also includes Field Notes Brand Books’ first release, “A Drive into the Gap” by Kevin Guilfoile.
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FNC-14: SPRING 2012
National Crop
EDITION SIZE: 7,500 BOX SETS
National Crop goes back to our agricultural roots with a custom-boxed set of six notebooks paying tribute to America’s top six crops; corn, soybeans, hay, wheat, cotton and sorghum. Each book features a different French Paper Co. cover and tan graph paper inside. The box also includes a handy reference poster and a 3" patch for your overalls.
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FNC-13: WINTER 2011
Northerly
EDITION SIZE: 6,000 PACKS
This wintery edition featured our first ever coated cover, Mohawk/Smart Kromekote with “Icy Silver” text and an embossed logotype. The interior pages are our first colored paper, with a white grid on light blue-gray 50# Finch Opaque text paper.
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FNC-12: FALL 2011
Fire Spotter
EDITION SIZE: 4,000 PACKS
A celebration of forestry and lookout towers with covers hand-printed on a vintage Miehle vertical press on French Construction “Electric Red”, with the “Fire Spotter” logo on the back. This edition also included a temporary tattoo.
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FNC-11: Summer 2011
American Tradesman
EDITION SIZE: 5,000 PACKS
A hard-working edition, these featured a Neenah 120# duplex cover with “Indigo Blue” on the outside with a vertical linear finish and “Jefferson Nickel” metallic silver type, with grey on the inside. (Subscriber Extra: Carpenter Pencil)
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FNC-10: Spring 2011
Dry Transfer
Edition Size: 5,000 PACKS
Our tenth Quarterly Edition looks like our regular Dur-o-Tone “Packing Brown Wrap” 3-Pack with graph paper, but omits our logo and includes a sheet of dry-transfer lettering, allowing you to customize the notebooks with your own text.
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FNC-09: WINTER 2010
Balsam Fir
EDITION SIZE: 3,500 PACKS
These Memo Books featured white, high-gloss, foil-stamped type on a French Paper Speckletone “Olive” cover. They came with a “Gift Form,” Mailing Envelope and a sprig of Fir.
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FNC-08: FALL 2010
Raven’s Wing
EDITION SIZE: 5,000 PACKS
The outside cover was letterpress-debossed and varnished, black-on-black. The charcoal-colored inside cover was printed in black on a vintage offset press. The 3-Packs came surrounded by a lovely French Paper “Butcher Orange” belly-band.
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FNC-07: SUMMER 2010
County Fair
EDITION SIZE: SO COMPLICATED
50 versions (a 3-Pack for every U.S. State) in the colors of County Fair ribbons: blue, gold and red, with a sweet and hardy linen textured cover and metallic type. Each book is packed with information about its state.
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FNC-06: SPRING 2010
Packet of Sunshine
EDITION SIZE: 4,000 PACKS
Packaged in a custom top-loading kraft-paper packet with a string and button closure and included a small bag of marigold seeds and a die-cut card with growing instructions.
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FNC-05: WINTER 2009
Just Below Zero
EDITION SIZE: 3,000 PACKS
French Dur-O-Tone “Steel Grey,” Pop-Tone “Sno Cone,” and Construction “Steel Blue” 100# covers with metallic type. Brrr.
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FNC-04: FALL 2009
Mackinaw Autumn
EDITION SIZE: 2,500 PACKS
Our first multi-colored 3-Pack. While all three colors were called “orange,” they were more regularly described as “red, orange, and brown.”
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FNC-03: SUMMER 2009
Grass Stain Green
EDITION SIZE: 1,650 PACKS
The covers were letterpress-printed by hand at Flywheel Letterpress and feature a heavy impression with a tinted varnish for a debossed look.
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FNC-02: SPRING 2009
Butcher Extra Blue
EDITION SIZE: JUST 500 PACKS
When these went on press, we had no plans for Quarterly Editions, or subscriptions so when we released Butcher Extra Blue, we sold out almost immediately.
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FNC-01: WINTER 2008
Butcher Orange
EDITION SIZE: JUST 500 PACKS
The first Quarterly Edition edition was released on a whim and mostly because we thought Butcher Orange Field Notes would look cool. We were right.
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