Stationery and Note Cards to Spruce up Your Desk

Based on the New York Times bestseller Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores, Bob Eckstein brings his heart-tugging illustrations to a postcard set. Here are 100 postcards that celebrate the pillar of every community — the independent bookstore — with 50 total illustrations, including seven never-before-seen designs — to both send and save.

These 100 stunning postcards celebrate 50 groundbreaking African American women, from Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks to Angela Davis and Beyoncé — published in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Featuring artwork from illustrator Mari Andrew, this colorful postcard book filled with poignant cards for every occasion is the perfect addition to anyone’s stationery collection.

From the editors of PUNCH, these eight small notebooks, organized by base ingredient, feature classic and modern drink recipes for essential spirits, liqueurs, and wines: whisky, rum, gin, vodka, tequila, champagne, sherry, and amaro. Each notebook also includes space in the back for jotting down that new cocktail creation. Nested in a sturdy slipcase, this colorful compilation is the ultimate bar cart accessory.

This gorgeous box of 12 elegant, wintry note cards and envelopes features different rare botanical portraits of winter plants drawn from The New York Botanical Garden’s extensive archives.

Best of Summer Stationery is a brightly colored stationery set of 20 sheets, 20 envelopes, and 1 yard of ribbon, perfect for campers writing home, pen-pals wanting to keep in touch, or party hosts looking for fun stationery to use as invitations or thank you notes.

Birdwatchers everywhere will love this beautiful box of 50 postcards featuring original bird paintings by renowned ornithologist David Sibley. Housed in an elegant keepsake box with tabs dividing them by type (sea birds, birds of prey, songbirds) for ease of choice, these postcards are ideal for mailing to friends and family, framed and used as décor, or attached to presents as unique gift tags.

Since its launch with The Odyssey in 1946, Penguin Classics has become the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history, and philosophy, 100 Postcards from Austen to Zola is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere. Here you will find Shakespeare, Austen, Balzac, Ibsen, Virgil, Chekhov, Gaskell, Dickens, Bronte, Nietzsche, Wells, Confucius, Keko, Keats, and more!

This official set of 12 illustrated note cards features friendly characters and iconic images from Eric Carle’s beloved bestseller The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Emblazon each card with your own personal touch, pop in the accompanying envelope, and send via snail mail — or drop at a friend’s doorstep! Sending mail has never been more fun with the help of Carle’s friendly crawling creature.

From Coralie Bickford-Smith, the award-winning author of the beloved children’s book The Fox and the Star, comes a set of 12 all-occasion note cards embellished with full-color illustrations from the original book. Coordinating envelopes include silver metallic ink on the inside and the box includes foil stamping.

A box of stylish note cards featuring Nordic art. The format includes 12 beautifully printed cards in a keepsake box with tinted envelopes. Note cards, envelopes, and box are covered with Petra Börner’s bright, graphic shapes and rich natural colors.

Self-exploration is not a solitary journey — often, it’s the interactions we have with others that teach us the most about ourselves. These note cards, filled with inspirational quotes and Meera Lee Patel’s resonant illustrations, are the consummate expression of the interpersonal side of introspection, the perfect token to send to a friend in your life who you want to thank, who is going through a rough time, or whom you want to encourage.

Amp up your music collection with this set of fifty uniquely illustrated postcards celebrating the most iconic records of the post-punk music genre, including albums from The Cure, New Order, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, and The Smiths.