FNC-64: Birds and Trees of North America

Birds and Trees of North America

Edition Size: 36,000 Packs

Our 64th Quarterly Limited Edition for fall, 2024 is “The Birds and Trees of North America” Edition, featuring the artwork of Rex Brasher (1869–1960).

FNC-63: Index

Index

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

Our 63rd Quarterly Limited Edition for the summer of 2024 is dedicated to organizing your time, life, and the things that you love.

FNC-62: Flora

Flora

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

FNC-61: Heartland

Heartland

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

Some Field Notes are “FieldNotes-ier” than others, and our Winter 2023 edition, “Heartland,” might be the “Field Notes-iest” yet.

FNC-60: Birch Bark

Birch Bark

Edition Size: 24,000 Packs

Our 60th Quarterly Limited Edition, for Fall 2023, is “Birch Bark.” It’s as simple, elegant, and austere as its name-sake tree.

FNC-59: Foiled Again

Foiled Again

Edition Size: 26,000 Packs

Field Notes’ 59th Quarterly Edition, “Foiled Again,” revisits one of our favorite printing processes, hot-foil stamping. Subscribers get a second Gold & Red 3-Pack.

FNC-58: Streetscapes

Streetscapes

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

Our idea for the Spring 2023 Limited Edition revolved around urban architecture, and the juxtaposition of new and old styles in large American cities.

FNC-57: Kraft Plus

Kraft Plus

Edition Size: 37,500 Packs

The covers of our “Kraft Plus” Edition are the result of the interaction of a bright, transparent ink with the lovely, rich tone of French’s “Packing Brown Wrap” paper. Subscribers get a bonus “Berry” 2-Pack.

FNC-56: Hatch

Hatch

Edition Size: 36,000 Packs

We imagined a three-poster public service campaign about effective poster design. We called it Pressing Issues: A Series on Ink, Paper, and Muscle. We wrote some copy and handed it off to the crew at Hatch to design and print. And. They. Killed. It.

FNC-55: Great Lakes

Great Lakes

Edition Size: 17,500 Packs

Jump into six quadrillion gallons of fresh water with Field Notes’ Summer 2022 Quarterly Edition. “The Great Lakes” set of five Memo Books celebrates Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.

FNC-54: Spring 2022

Signs of Spring

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

Our limited release Spring 2022 is the “Signs of Spring” Edition. We wanted to produce something bright and warm, and to do that we focused on the papers.

FNC-53: Winter 2021

Ignition

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

We all need a place to jot down the first sparks of a big new idea, to record our “notes to self,” and to remind ourselves to pick up the doggo at 4 p.m. on Thursday. Ignition helps with that.

FNC-52: Fall 2021

Harvest

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

Celebrated American artist John Burgoyne's illustrations grace the covers of the six Memo Books in this series, each featuring a fruit or vegetable commonly harvested in the Fall.

FNC-51: Summer 2021

Trailhead

Edition Size: 30,000 Packs

Wherever your personal journey leads you, use these Memo Books to make your plans and record your adventures.

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.

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

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.

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.

FNC-46: Spring 2020

Vignette

Edition Size: 40,000 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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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!

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)

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!

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!

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.

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)

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)

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

FNC-09: WINTER 2010

Balsam Fir

EDITION SIZE: 7,000 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.