R.I.P John Chandler (Bookman's Corner)

I really didn't start shopping Bookman's Corner on a regular basis til after the pandemic, to those willing to dig there were treasures to be found.I owe a set of Pepys and Boswell Life of Johnson to Bookman's.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/customers-remember-beloved-owner-of-bookma...

I knocked over at least a couple of tottering stacks in there. One time, learning I'd studied French, he gave me a whole sackful of kids' books in French, and tossed in a fantastic Petit Robert that's still sitting in high style on my shelves.

It was sad to hear of Mr Chandler's passing, but cheered a bit when seeing a pic today of the books being packed into a U-Haul (rather than tossed into a dumpster). Fingers crossed his devotion is passed forward.

>4 suburbguy:

Thanks for posting, I was not a regular customer but I certainly visited (and purchased books) on multiple occasions over the years. Chandler's store was a delight and a cultural marker.

>2 KatrinkaV: You cannot really claim to be a used book hunter in Chicago if you had never knocked over a pile of books at John's store.

>6 suburbguy: And discovered something at the very bottom of it all that wasn't visible before the minor catastrophe occurred.