Chicago: Bookman’s Corner
This place is filled with towers of books. Looking for a book here is like playing Giant Jenga. If you’re not careful, the whole thing will fall down.
Even the window displays are massed piles of books.
But it is a great bookstore, especially if you’re looking for books about old Chicago. This is where I found Deadlines & Monkeyshines, and of course some books on Mike Royko, including one I’d been looking for, For the Love of Mike.
As you can see, they also have a nice selection of cheap Tarzan novels. Not a huge amount of mass-market fiction, but I was able to find some nice options there as well.
And a whole lot of history books and a bunch more. You have to wander through it to believe it.
If you are in Chicago, there are a handful of places you must visit. The Billy Goat Tavern; the Lincoln Park Zoo; the Printers Row Lit Fest; and, in my opinion, if you’re a book-lover you must visit Bookman’s Corner.
Bookman’s Corner
2959 North Clark
Chicago, Illinois
Nov. 7, 2021
| The Closing of the American Mind• | Allan Bloom | $3.50 | hardcover |
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March 17, 2015
| Tarzan and the Lion Man | Edgar Rice Burroughs | $0.25 | mass market paperback |
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| Tarzan the Invincible | Edgar Rice Burroughs | $0.25 | mass market paperback |
| Tarzan the Magnificent | Edgar Rice Burroughs | $0.50 | mass market paperback |
| Tarzan and the City of Gold | Edgar Rice Burroughs | $0.75 | mass market paperback |
| The Gates of Creation | Philip José Farmer | $0.75 | mass market paperback |
| Chains of the Sea | Robert Silverberg | $0.75 | mass market paperback |
| That Hideous Strength | C.S. Lewis | $1.50 | mass market paperback |
| the cabin• | David Mamet | $3.00 | small trade paperback |
June 5, 2014
| Turkish Cookery | $3.00 | unknown print | |
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| Deadlines & Monkeyshines | John J. McPhaul | $4.00 | hardcover |
| For the Love of Mike• | Mike Royko | $5.00 | hardcover |
In response to The bookstores less traveled: These aren’t the bookstores people travel across the country to visit. But if you’re already traveling across the country, you’ll want to take advantage of the opportunity to visit them.
- Deadlines & Monkeyshines: The Fabled World of Chicago Journalism
- The past is a dark place to look into; despite all of the paeans to a golden age of journalism, John J. McPhaul describes a world very much like our own, but without the Internet to shine a light on journalism’s monkeyshines.
- For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko
- This collection of Royko columns is basically the leftovers from the previous collection, from the sixties on up, and worth getting if you’re a Royko fan.