Cheese List Tea Towel
The Cheese List Tea Towel highlights different cheeses from around the world arranged by their milk content (sheep, goat, cow), and includes the origin of each. The caseophile/turophile in search of a culinary adventure may well use this as a virtual guide to exploring the terrain beyond cheddar.
Bullet Ballpoint Pen
This compact, bullet-shaped pen fits snugly in a pocket; when it's time to write, post the pen cap onto its body. It is a comfortable weight to hold in the hand and comes with permanent oil-based black ink, refillable. Packaged in a custom box, for gifting. Made in Japan.
50-Year Calendar Paperweight
This slim but hefty paperweight has a monthly calendar for the next fifty years. Line up month and year at the top of the dial to reveal the complete calendar of the month. A handsome and practical addition to any desk.
Eudora Welty Cuff Bracelet
“All serious daring starts from within.” For anyone interested in writing, reading, and creativity, Eudora Welty’s autobiographical One Writer’s Beginnings is an iconic work. This sterling silver cuff is engraved with the memoir's most famous line.
Littlest New Yorker Welcome Bundle (with Bib)
We've gathered the perfect products to welcome New York's newest, just-born residents: 100 First Words for Little New Yorkers, a board book to introduce a little one to all things NYC; a reversible bib featuring iconic symbols of the city; and a plush yellow rattle inspired by the vintage NY taxi.
Littlest New Yorker Welcome Bundle (with Romper)
The perfect products to welcome New York's newest, just-born residents—a bundle of joy for your bundle of joy! Includes: a board book to introduce a little one to all things NYC, onesie romper (size 6m) featuring iconic symbols of New York, and a rattle shaped like an authentic NYC cab.
Edward Gorey Sterling Heart Cat Pin
This gently romantic sterling silver pin is a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day or an anniversary, or any occasion when one wants to express affection…or something stronger. Based on a series of drawings by Gorey, creator of more than 100 works—from a wealth of darkly hilarious books to the animated opening sequence of the PBS television series Mystery!
Shakespeare’s Britain: 1,000-Piece Puzzle
Decorated with symbols and icons of towns and abbeys, castles, battlefields, forests, and heaths, the image on the puzzle is a pictorial map of Britain as it was in 1583, with the geographical settings of Shakespeare’s history plays labeled.
The World of Quentin Blake: 1,000-Piece Puzzle
This 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle is a wonderful collage of Quentin Blake’s most memorable characters and will provide hours of fun and memories of the books Blake illustrated.
Zig & Go Musical Chain Reaction Construction Set
A large set of chain reaction and wooden construction components as well as chimes, bells, a gong, and other “instruments” that can produce sound when positioned to do so. The possibilities are endless as kids learn about the ingenuity and magic involved in chains of movement.
The Moth: A Game of Storytelling
NPR’s The Moth is all about true stories told live, and this game is designed to prompt a volley of sharing and listening between players. Created by the program’s storytelling experts, this interactive card game encourages lively conversations, sparks creativity, and improves public speaking abilities.
League of the Lexicon
Recommended "for wordsmiths and language lovers," League of the Lexicon is “the perfect gift for that erudite friend or trivia junkie in your life," according to "The Wall Street Journal." "[It] features 2,000 questions—crafted by linguists and lexicographers—that probe every corner of language: from etymology and archaic words to usage and wordy trivia. Since the word game’s launch … it has been awarded a spot on Mensa Minds Recommended Play List for 2023, making it a solid choice for book lovers who relish a challenge.“
The World of Jane Austen: 1,000-Piece Puzzle
You’ll find sixty characters and great houses from the novels of Jane Austen, set against the landscapes in which they are featured. Also included is a fold-out poster of the image on the puzzle, along with a key to people, both real and fictional, featured on the puzzle.
Precious Metals Fountain Pens for Everyday
Chic, affordable, and—most important for a tool to be used every day—beautifully engineered: comfortable to hold, lightweight yet anything but plastic-y, with a nib that glides across the page.
Gold-Stamped “Merci” Thank You Cards
A simple but elegant metallic gold “MERCI” is foil-stamped on these correspondence cards of heavyweight creamy stock. Send your thanks with personality and panache any time you want to show your appreciation.
Mythology Trivia
This dapper box is filled with 140 multiple-choice questions that cover myths and folklore—from gods and heroes to magical beasts and monsters—from cultures around the world, including Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Native American, Japanese, Senegalese, Chinese, Slavic, Haitian, and more.
Bloomsbury Homes Cards
British artist Amanda White has produced a series of notecards featuring cut paper collages of historic houses of writers and poets. This set of eight cards features two pivotal figures of the Bloomsbury Group, artist Vanessa Bell and her sister, the writer Virginia Woolf, at their respective homes in the English countryside.
Shakespeare Sonnet 116 Möbius Bracelet
Several lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments…”), one of his best-known, are engraved on this sterling silver möbius bracelet.
The Company They Kept, Volume Two
Twenty-seven memoirs of personal and intellectual relationships among writers and artists from the pages of The New York Review of Books, including pieces by Elizabeth Hardwick, Philip Roth, Isaiah Berlin, Bruce Chitin, and more.
The Company They Kept
Writers on Unforgettable Friendships from the pages of The New York Review of Books. “[an] extraordinarily striking, moving and delicious collection….”—Financial Times
Decoder Jigsaw Puzzle with Eyeglasses Masks
This is a delightful 100-piece puzzle for ages 4+ that comes with a fun payoff: once it is completed, the puzzle workers don the special animal masks to discover hidden objects printed on the puzzle that are invisible to the naked eye.
Baby Lit Collection
Introduce young ones (ages birth and up) to a world of literature with these cheerful, colorful, and humorous board books, bundled together in an I Love Books canvas tote. The ten books include four classics from the wildly popular Baby Lit series, two volumes from Baby Lit Shakespeare, and four from Baby Lit Little Poets.
The World of Frida Kahlo: 1,000-Piece Puzzle
Known for her self-portraits and representation of her Mexican heritage, this puzzle conveys the spirit of Kahlo and her world. Taking center stage is Frida herself surrounded by iconic elements of her life, including a huge cast of family, famous friends, and exotic pets. Those with a keen eye will also spot many references to her art and the tragedies and triumphs of her career.
"Reader, I Married Him" Silver Brontë Bracelet
"Reader, I married him."—Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë This declarative and witty quotation from Brontë's masterpiece, one of the most famous stories of romance in all of literature, is stamped inside this artisan-made silver bracelet.
Globetrotting
In 'Globetrotting,' Duncan Minshull, the UK’s “laureate of walking,” brings together the work of more than fifty walker-writers who have traveled the world’s seven continents by foot. From the 1500s to the present day comes a memorable band of explorers and adventurers, scientists and missionaries, pleasure-seekers and literary drifters recalling their experiences and asking themselves a compelling question—why travel this way in the first place?
Beneath My Feet
'Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking' rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1700s to the modern day, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. Follow in the footsteps of William Hazlitt, George Sand, Rebecca Solnit, Will Self, and dozens of others. Keep up with them—and be astonished.
Solar System Paperweight
Let your thoughts turn heavenwards as you gaze at the colorful solar system paperweight with its galaxies and planets. This glass paperweight combines style and functionality as a beautiful accent piece for any home or office.
Walt Whitman Earrings
"Resist much. Obey little." The poet's rallying cry for individual and collective liberty, from the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass is stamped on these sterling silver domed disc earrings, for pierced ears. They are handmade in the U.S.A. by artist Amy Volchok.
Women Who Changed the World Mug
These heirloom quality bone china mugs are decorated with engaging illustrations depicting more than forty remarkable women, from secret agents, scientists, and suffragists, to politicians, presidents, and paleontologists.
Walt Whitman Cuff Bracelet
“now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find,” from Walt Whitman’s "The Untold Want," is engraved on the outside of this lovely polished sterling silver cuff bracelet. Inside is the author's name with a picture of a sailing ship.
“Those who love each other” Sterling Silver Cuff Bracelet
"Those who love each other shall become invincible." As befitting the personal nature of the sentiment, Walt Whitman’s line has been stamped inside this cuff, a private message to a beloved recipient.
“Those who love each other” Gold Bracelet
"Those who love each other shall become invincible." Whitman’s words have been hand-cast on a 14K gold vermeil bangle using the ancient art of lost wax casting. The designer works from a solar-powered studio in Southern California.
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