The deathbed confession of James Allen, a nineteenth-century highwayman in Massachusetts. He requested a copy of his printed memoirs be bound in his skin and gifted to John Fenno, a man who had resisted Allen’s attempt to rob him; it is the only known anthropodermic book bound with the consent of its source. Before being bequeathed to the Athenæum, Fenno’s copy was reportedly kept in the family home and used to spank his children.

Um den Kindern den Arsch zu versohlen.

Ist halt der rassengedanke zu Ende gedacht: wenn nicht-arier untermenschen sind, dann ist judenleder wahrscheinlich einfach die luxuriösere rinderhaut. Die ultimative dominanzgeste, nicht nur töte ich dich, ich hab so wenig Achtung vor dir dass ich aus deiner Leiche Möbel mache…