Heirloom Books

Cozy eclectic used bookstore located in Chicago at 6239 N Clark St. A used bookstore should cherish the growth of book-reading, one page at a time. Chicago book stores are heirlooms to our city, thus our name. Come check us out, and say hello! (We're dog friendly, too!)

 

*Please note that books listed here are fulfilled directly via Bookshop. Finding a particular book here does not mean we have it in stock at our brick and mortar location.

Less Lincoln in the Bardo Flights
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Chelsea's Favorite Reads

Where the Tour Buses Don't Go: Chicago's Hidden Sites of the Mysterious, Macabre, Ghostly & Glamorous
The Moral Defense of Homosexuality: Why Every Argument against Gay Rights Fails
Becoming
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
St. Augustine's Bones: A Microhistory
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America
Algren: A Life
Synchronized Sleepwalking
Against Capitalism
The Big 50: Chicago Blackhawks: The Men and Moments That Made the Chicago Blackhawks
Sky People: Untold Stories of Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
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"High Weirdness" with Mr. Graff

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Enlarged)
Anna Karenina: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Deluxe)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Rasputin: The Role of Britain's Secret Service in His Torture and Murder
Khrushchev
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
My Soul Looks Back (Revised) (Revised) (Revised)
Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage
Bismarck
Soul on Ice
J.B.S: The Life and Work of J.B.S Haldane
The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint
Washington: A Life
Compañero / Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara: Vida Y Muerte del Che Guevara--Spanish-Language Edition
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
The Andromeda Strain Twistor What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
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EG's Speculative Fantasy Favorites

The Female Brain
Studies in Hysteria
An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.
Erotism: Death and Sensuality
The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present
Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmondvolume 48
Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
Studies in Analytical Psychology
Existence
Visual Thinking (Anniversary)
Dibs in Search of Self: The Renowned, Deeply Moving Story of an Emotionally Lost Child Who Found His Way Back
The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition (Revised)
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EG's History Favorites

A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition (Expanded)
The Yugoslav Drama: Second Edition
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition, Second Edition
Corruptions of Empire
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
World Orders Old and New
American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays (Revised)
Chomsky on Miseducation
Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice
Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America
Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
Language and Myth The Philosophy of the Enlightenment: Updated Edition (Revised) Neither Victims Nor Executioners: An Ethic Superior to Murder
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EG's Philosophy Favorites