Ravenswood Used Books

10/23/2024

Got any holes in your collection? We have a couple.

10/22/2024

Argh! Every other page! 👺👿😡😤🤬

10/18/2024

Lots of really really high quality classical sheet music came in yesterday. Mostly for piano, but there are a few pieces for violin and other instruments. Pictured is about only about half of what I'm putting out.

10/18/2024

Anybody still out there? We haven't been posting very much on Facebook, it seems there's not very many people left on Facebook.
We are looking into putting together a web page before the end of the year - coming into the 21st century finally!
That being said, here is today's strange news. Yet again a car tried to drive into the building but managed to get stopped by city of Chicago hardware.
Thank you parking meter company. We normally hate you, but today your sign stopped a car from hitting our building.

10/01/2024

As we have customers who enjoy these authors’ books, I thought you might be interested in this.

WBEZ is proud to partner with the Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine and Exile in Bookville to present “An Evening with Margaret Atwood and Rebecca Makkai” on October 7th! Atwood shares insight of her latest novel "Paper Boat." Tix: https://trib.al/jfZdt1n

09/29/2024

Back at the refurbished Music Box for a showing of the infamous 1979 film "Caligula".
Cup holders!

09/22/2024

The scene outside the store this morning. I've already seen three baby strollers, and it's not even nine.

09/21/2024

This is the kind of book that gives me agita. A couple of those signatures look really really good, but the other two, not quite so much.

I'm going with, this was signed by a fan club president which, strangely enough, was common for Beatles memorabilia in their early days.

09/08/2024

Egyptians liked their beer. Too much, sometimes.

09/02/2024

NOTICE: we will be closed for one day on Tuesday, September 11th. Nothing serious, just a bunch of chores that are hard to do when the store is open.

09/02/2024

We might be able to find something for you to do.
Yes, we're open.

08/28/2024

Amongst the many interesting creations in this book are several Frank Lloyd Wright buildings recreated in Lego. Cool!

08/24/2024

Let the yowling begin!

08/23/2024

Now THAT is an inscription. 1952. And the books are pretty cool too, if you're into chess.

08/10/2024

Who's ready to drive their neighbors crazy? 😃

08/09/2024

Anyone sensing a theme? 😗

08/09/2024

An early print (1954) of the first American edition of The Plague features Death on the cover. Well done, Knopf.

08/03/2024

Sheet music, scores, instructionals... We gots! Took in a nice little batch, with some high-end oboe music - Corigliano! Several instructionals for different instruments, even took in a beautiful score of the Mahler first and second, which I almost kept.
Scores and strummed instrument (guitars, banjoes..) music is in the musical literature section; sheet music and non strummed instructionals will be in the old filing cabinet in the back.