From the library of . . . death!

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A great gift for the medical history junkie, from Manifesto Letterpress: twelve "Dreade of Death" letterpress bookplates ($9.95 on sale). The designs are also available as coasters.

Manifesto also has skeleton and microscope letterpress postcards for the scientist in your life.

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Sweet! I don't have any labels inside my own books (in fact I probably have more used ones than new ones) so I might just have to pick some of these up. Thanks for sharing this!

That's totally fucking awesome! I just ordered the coasters! This way I can look at death as I slowly kill myself with booze.

Too bad I don't know anybody who would appreciate those . . . except you, of course!