Visit https://www.abaa.org/virtualbookfair on June 4 @ 9AM CDT!

Come see what ABAA members have been working on during our time apart. New acquisitions, discoveries, and rare finds are available exclusively at the first ABAA Virtual Book Fair.

The ABAA Virtual Book Fair will allow visitors to shop handpicked highlights and recent acquisitions from trusted ABAA members from all over the country. Interact with dealers in real-time, just as you could at a physical book fair! Items will be new-to-market, and exceptional!

No sales will be possible before the fair opens at 9AM CDT on June 4th.

Additional Event Information:

Leading up to this special event, the ABAA is hosting an online panel discussion: Book Collecting 101, Online Edition, similar to the educational session offered at ABAA book fairs held in Boston, New York and California. The panel will discuss some of the unique differences of shopping online versus the in-person experience and provide tips on avoiding some of the pitfalls.

Register for the live discussion on Zoom Monday, June 1 at 1PM CDT using this link: https://forms.gle/Lkw47ZDHw9vcXXAW6

View the ABAA press release.

June "Luncheon" Program

Mary Wisniewski - On Nelson Algren

        If you take the Chicago Tribune, you may know Mary Wisniewski as its transportation reporter and Getting Around columnist. Instead of giving us the latest infrastructure updates though, she will be transporting us to a different time in Chicago, as she puts on her other hat as an award-winning biographer of Nelson Algren.

        Perhaps you won’t believe it, but Chicago used to be a city on the make, with hustlers, crooked politicians, and a seamy underbelly that you didn’t have to look too hard to find. Wisniewski will take us there as she swings open the door to two-fisted writing that wasn’t set on the Gold Coast, with all the punches that connected and the ones that missed by a mile. There is more to Algren than his affair with Simone de Beauvoir, and as the New York Times said of Wisniewski in its review of her book — Algren - A Life — “… ah, she gets it.”

        This is program will be broadcast by reservation/invitation only via Zoom.  Registrants will be sent a link no later than one day prior to the event.