Quimby's Bookstore

Quimby's is an independently owned bookstore in Chicago that sells independently-published and small press books, comics, zines and ephemera. We favor the unusual, the aberrant, the saucy and the lowbrow. Find us at 1854 W. North Ave in Wicker Park and at quimbys.com.

Matchmaker
Sad Girl Space Lizard
Totem
Roaming
My Picture Diary
A Book to Make Friends with
Macbeth
Blankets: 20th Anniversary Edition
Dementia 21 Box Set: Vols. 1 & 2
The Cloven: Book Two
Eden II
Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas
Mage and the Endless Unknown
Okinawa
Starseeds 3
Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop
This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music
A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
Good Pop, Bad Pop: The Sunday Times Bestselling Hit from Jarvis Cocker
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Just a Minor Threat: The Minor Threat Photographs of Glen E. Friedman
Bowie Odyssey 73
B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
Illustrated History of Rock
A Book of Days
Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones
Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country
Proudhon's Sociology
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression
No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno
The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France (1891-1909)
Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice
Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76
Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right
Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
The Cry of Mother Earth: Plan of Action of the Ecosocialist International
MS Davis: A Graphic Biography
My Country Is the World: Writings, Speeches, Statements, and Interviews Against the Vietnam War
From Angels to Werewolves: Animal-Human Hybrids in Myth and Art
Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism
Acky Bright B/W
Soleil Fashion Lookbook
Sean Aaberg's Halloween Book
Street Art for the Planet
Graffiti Bible: A Complete Guide on How to Do Graffiti
20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads. 40th Ed.
Welcome to the Peculiar Antique Shop: The Art of Makura Kurama
A is for Anarchist
Signal: 08: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture
2am Eternal
I Can Be Myself When Everyone I Know Is Dead...: The Delightfully Dreadful Art of Kamila Mlynarczyk
How to Not Fuck Up Your Art-World Happiness
Chip7land: Behind the Scenes of a Bangkok Graffiti Writer
Small Magics: Practical Secrets from an Appalachian Village Witch
Spirits, Seers & Séances: Victorian Spiritualism, Magic & the Supernatural
Magicka: Finding Spiritual Guidance Through Plants, Herbs, Crystals, and More
Tarot Goblinko: Dark Fantasy Medieval Punk Tarot
The Giza Death Star Revisited: An Updated Revision of the Weapon Hypothesis of the Great Pyramid
The Bringer of Life: A Cosmic History of the Divine Feminine
American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders
Fact, Fictions, and the Forbidden Predictions of the Amazing Criswell
Lost Paititi and the Non-Human Remains of Nazca
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna
The Curious World of Bacteria
Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light
Occult Paris: City of Night
The Philosophy of Dark Paganism: Wisdom & Magick to Cultivate the Self
Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
Hand Lettering and Beyond: A Beginner's Workbook for the Creative Art of Drawing Letters
The Rule-Breaking Letterer's Workbook: Prompts and Inspiration for Embracing Imperfection
How to Be a Rule-Breaking Letterer: A Guide to Making Perfectly Imperfect Art
Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi
Unfuck Your Eating: Using Science to Build a Better Relationship with Food, Health, and Body Image: Using Science to Build a Better Relationship with
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
The Transmasculine Guide to Physical Transition Workbook: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks
The Transmasculine Guide to Physical Transition: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks
Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection
Culpeper's Complete Herbal: A Compendium of Herbs and Their Uses, Annotated for Modern Herbalists, Healers, and Witches: A Compendium of Herbs and The
Cross Stitch or Die Tryin': 30 Patterns for Hip Hop Lovers
Chicago Scavenger
Hoodoo Herbal: Folk Recipes for Conjure & Spellwork with Herbs, Houseplants, Roots, & Oils
Craft and Conscience: How to Write about Social Issues
The Grind Culture Detox: Heal Yourself from the Poisonous Intersection of Racism, Capitalism, and the Need to Produce
Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
Catastrophe Time!
The Light Room
Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?
Camgirl
A Living Remedy: A Memoir
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the Eccentric, Unique and Undefinable
Hoop Muses: An Insider's Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women's) Game
The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World
Last Call Chicago: A History of 1001 LGBTQ-Friendly Taverns, Haunts & Hangouts
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Dinosaurs
The Future
Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight
Okpsyche
An Atavic Fear of Hailstorms
101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
The Museum of Human History
The Midnight Library
The Wind Knows My Name
The Black Locomotive
Girls They Write Songs about
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set
The City of Unspeakable Fear
The Book Eaters
The Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink Volume 1: The Opal and Other Stories (Revised)
Abc-Deconstructing Gender
Katya's Book of Mushrooms: Fungi, Fauna, Facts & Folklore
The Sound of Letters
Legendary Escapes
How to Be a Spy
Hello, Robot!: Day-To-Day Life with Artificial Intelligence!
Toxic: The World's Deadliest Creatures
Duckling
Blueblood
Hansel and Greta
Leopold the See-Through Crumbpicker
Bruised
How Do Animals See?
The Story of the Snow Children: Mini Edition
Amazing Plants of the World