Newberry's 31st annual book fair this weekend

The Newberry Library will hold its Annual Book Fair from July 23-26.

The Book Fair hours are as follows:

Thursday (July 23) & Friday (July 24) Hours: Noon-8PM

Saturday (July 25) & Sunday (July 26) Hours: 10AM-6PM.

The Newberry Library is located at 60 West Walton Street in Chicago and additional information can be obtained on the internet at www.newberry.org.

And yes, shamelessly copied from last year's post, with updates to the dates.

Plus ... the Bughouse Square Debates on Saturday out in the park!

Very probably won't make it (again) this year, but would love to participate vicariously if anyone wants to post their finds and experiences.

Gah. I'll be out of town.

Sadly, I will have to miss preview night.

But I should be able to get there Thursday or Friday late afternoon, and, I hope, Sunday morning for half-price day.

Again, the goal is to come home with fewer books than I donated.

>5 lilithcat: Excellent plan! And I'm trying to read another of the books I bought last year before buying more.

>5 lilithcat: You can't' possibly attend two and a half days and come home with less than you donated. Book maths doesn't work that way!

Had a great haul today! Somebody must have known I was coming, because there was a large number of Trollope novels and I scooped up 9 of them (mostly Dover editions of little-known works), along with E. L. Doctorow (Book of Daniel), Kent Haruf (Where You Once Belonged), George Eliot's hard to find Felix Holt and Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart.

I only made it to the Chicago/Illinois books & the Classics/Fiction, so I'll need to go back to check out the other rooms!

ETA: also a 1950 Jonathan Cape edition of Elizabeth Bowen's To the North and a large bound spiral handout from a Newberry Genealogy seminar: "It Didn't All go Up in Flames: Exploring Pre-Fire Chicago at the Newberry." It's got to be at least 100 pages of examples of resources at the Newberry of Chicago pre-Fire documents.

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I think I got all the other Trollope novels, plus his biography of Thackeray, plus his autobiography.

I was absolutely shocked that I got out of there for under $100. But I'm planning to go back on Sunday morning for half-price day . . .

I guess I'll spend tomorrow morning cataloguing my haul!

a large bound spiral handout from a Newberry Genealogy seminar: "It Didn't All go Up in Flames: Exploring Pre-Fire Chicago at the Newberry."

I picked up the brochure for the fall seminars and they're doing that one again, if you're interested.

>9 lilithcat: AHA! Thanks for leaving me the ones I didn't have--that worked out perfectly! But there certainly were a lot, weren't there? Some of mine have a little flower sticker on the first page.

I'm going back Friday with friends so I'll grab a brochure.

Got a couple of items– oddly thankful that I didn't find more, as the shelves at home are already overflowing, and the wallet has been giving me the stink eye re: this month's spending practices... Check out the postcard boxes if you go; someone's photographs seem to have gotten thrown in with everything else.

>10 kac522:

Some of mine have that little sticker as well. I left behind quite a few others, having already read the Palliser and Barsetshire novels, which were there in abundance, along with quite a few more that I've already read or already own.

Of course, one could probably spend the rest of one's reading life reading nothing but Trollope! Talk about prolific! And with a full time job on top of that. I've always been impressed by that.

>11 KatrinkaV: missed the postcards...went back today...only picked up a handful of things, but did grab a 1943 Avon Short Story Monthly magazine with 15 stories by James T. Farrell (of Studs Lonigan fame) for my husband.

>12 lilithcat: One of the Trollopes, The Fixed Period, is a revised & corrected edition from the original manuscript at the University of Michigan, and published by University of Michigan Press. It's also Trollope's only science fiction, set in the year 1980. It should be an interesting read.

Very happy with my haul today. Most of the books were from the foreign language section. Poetry in Spanish by Alberti, Juarroz, Vallejo, and Huidrobro for a dollar each. A book on still lifes at the Museo del Prado. And a spectacular catalog for an art exhibition apparently based on Octavio Paz's writings on art Los Privilegios de la Vista. Will be back on Sunday to see what I can find at half price.

I was having a little bit of buyer's remorse but spent the afternoon with the exquisite La Belleza de lo Real and I'm cured.

mejix, if you see any Nicanor Parra, can you grab it and we arrange for an exchange?

I will keep an eye for Parra. Do they add new works during the weekend? I didn't see anything yesterday. I did see a collection by Gabriela Mistral that I was kind of sad to leave.

Many thanks! Not sure if they add new stuff every day, but I'm always convinced I missed something cast aside by a potential buyer at the last minute in the "squirreling" areas.