The Bookworks

06/29/2025

Just uploaded lots of great new arrivals. Sixties, art, sports, literature and more! Check out the link to see what's new:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=134742

12/30/2024

Links Hall has been an important alternative music and performance venue in Chicago for 45 years. They were great neighbors to have when we opened our bookstore. Now they need donations to keep going so please give any amount you can. Every little bit will help. Thanks.

https://www.linkshall.org/about-links-hall

https://givebutter.com/LifelineForLinks

By Links Hall Incorporated

09/18/2024

The auction goes live Thursday, September 19th. Here's a direct link to the sale for previews and early bidding:

https://auctions.potterauctions.com/Catalog.aspx?auctionid=1189.

09/16/2024

Decided it’s time to sell the 1960s Counterculture collection.
Books on psychedelics, hippies, civil rights, music, feminism, literature, radical politics and more. There are also rare posters, recordings, and ephemera.
Other consigners will be offering large Grateful Dead and Gay erotica collections.
No sign in needed to view the sale. Check it out.
https://auctions.potterauctions.com/Catalog.aspx?auctionid=1189

03/12/2024

We've been working hard to list a lot of new arrivals. Sixties counterculture, history, art, literature and more!

05/31/2023

Another spectacular Chicago book auction from Potter & Potter. Live and online June 1st.

05/31/2023

Great image and an excellent chance to buy books in Chicago!

Beasley Books will be exhibiting at our June 17th fair, and they always bring an exciting mix of modern first editions, radical literature, art and photography as well as books on blues and jazz, and surrealism. This year they will also have on hand some vintage Polish language play and movie posters.

04/15/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/arts/design/tres-riches-heures-calendar.html?smid=url-share

What is a day, a month, a year? Science, religion and art coalesce in an invaluable 15th-century book of hours.

02/18/2023

The mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book

Centuries-old books, manuscripts and printing plates often contain invisible etchings, mysterious letters – and even doodles.

02/10/2023

Still some great bookstores in Chicago with retail locations!

From novels to nonfiction, you'll find all of the titles you could possibly want and more at these best bookstores in Chicago

12/04/2022

An excellent history of books at Christmas (and they don't have to be "new"!)

As Christmas came to be celebrated in the home, choosing the right volume was a way to show intimate understanding of the person opening the package.