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Serious books
for a more
considered world.

Perfectly Respectable is an independent publisher of handsomely produced books that look like they belong on a shelf in a members' club and read like a joke told with a straight face.

Our Story

Featured Titles

A curated selection of recent and forthcoming publications from Perfectly Respectable.

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A More Considered Publisher

We believe in the enduring value of beautifully made books, in ideas both serious and playful, and in the quiet pleasure of handing someone a gift they cannot tell is a joke until page three.

Our Philosophy

Journal

Ebook Covers

New on Etsy

The Deadpan Classics Pack

Twelve printable covers for books that do not exist, for shelves that do.

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How This Works

Books live on Amazon

Printed, bound and shipped by people far better equipped than we are. Every title page here carries a button that takes you straight to the listing.

Covers live on Etsy

Instant digital downloads. Print them, wrap them around a book you already own, or use them as the cover of something you intend to write one day.

Guides live here

Our Journal exists to solve the hardest problem in gift-giving: knowing roughly what the person is like and nothing else.

The Occasional Dispatch

New titles, new covers, and gift guides sent only when a date on the calendar demands something be done about it.

No more than once a month. Possibly rather less.