Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The shelf
Prints & pennants
36 designs from the shop’s own press: banned-book library cards, first-edition census sheets, poems set to hang, and pennants for the places books made famous. Each is printed to order, as a poster or a download, and bought on Etsy.
Removed From Circulation 17
Library cards stamped BANNED, with the borrowing carrying on underneath in handwritten ink. One card per book they tried to take away, each date and fact documented.
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
Ulysses
James Joyce
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
1984
George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Removed From Circulation
The series card: the stamp, the borrowing, the whole idea on one sheet.
First Edition Census 5
What a true first of the book looks like, point by point, on one sheet: the issue points, the states, the numbers that matter. The reference we use, drawn to hang.
Anatomy of a First Edition
A copyright page, annotated: what every line on it is telling you.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Literary Posters 4
Poems and lines that earned a wall: typeset, illustrated and printed to be read from across a room.
Hope Is the Thing With Feathers
Emily Dickinson
Long Live the Weeds
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Words Outlast Empires
Borders Shift, Stories Remain
A vintage travel poster for the journeys books send you on.
Pennants 10
Felt-style pennants for the places books made famous, and for the shelf itself.
Walden Pond
Thoreau
Nantucket
Melville
Wessex
Hardy
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
Salinas Valley
Steinbeck
Dust Bowl
Steinbeck
Long Island Sound
Fitzgerald
Read Banned Books
Ex Libris, navy
personalised
Ex Libris, forest green
personalised
Prints are made to order and ship from the printer, so they are bought on Etsy for now; a link opens the listing in a new tab. Books on the other shelves are one copy each and never printed.