About

Powell’s Bookstores Chicago specializes in quality used, rare, and discounted books, primarily academic and scholarly. We are particularly strong in medieval studies and classics, philosophy and books on books, but we also carry many other subjects.

We have two retail stores in Chicago, each with well over a quarter million books. Our selection ranges from antiquarian (rare) books to good, quality used books, to publisher’s remainders at discount.

This blog has been started to feature some of our favorites from our inventory. We hope that you will enjoy our books as much as we do.

If you are interested in purchasing a book featured on our blog, simply click on the image which will take you to that book in our inventory on Abebooks.com, where you can order it right away!