Category: store news

  • It's Our Wishy-Washy Book Sale

    book sale book sale book sale

    An embarrassment of excellent, dirt-cheap sale books hit the shelves this week. And I do mean excellent — there’s not a single Dick Francis snoozer in sight. Here’s a quick sampling of the riches…

    • All Yesterday’s Parties: The Velvet Underground In Print, by Clinton Heylin
    • Suicide: No Compromise, by David Nobakht
    • Hot and Cold, by Richard Hell
    • Seymore Chwast’s graphic designer must-have, The Push Pin Graphic
    • Amnesia Moon, Jonathan Lethem’s first and most PKD-ish novel,
    • The Other Hollywood, Legs McNeil’s oral history of the porn industry
    • Punk Rock Aerobics, Richard Simmons’ tell-all biog (not really)
    • Chicago’s Dive Bars

    There’s lots more greatness, too much to list here. So stop by the store and check it out, already.

  • Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the Week of Aug 12th – 18th, 2007

    1. Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 $17.98
    2. The Believer #46 $8.00 (McSweeney’s)
    3. F Word #2 Spr 07 $4.20
    4. Complete Do It Yourself Bike Book Everything You Need to Know – by Mel Allwood $24.95 (Marlowe)
    5. Feeble Attempts – by Jeffrey Brown $5.00 (Top Shelf)
    6. Participatory Autonomy by Rick Gribenas $15.00
    7. Brainscan #21 by Alex Wrekk $2.00
    8. Rolling Thunder #4 $6.00 (CrimethInc.)
    9. Love & Rockets vol 2 #20 by Hernandez $7.99 (Fantagraphics)
    10. Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman $15.00 (Scribner)

  • Quimby's Bestseller List for Aug 5th-11th

    Look! It’s Quimby’s Best Sellers For The Week of Aug 5th – 11th!

    Want to know what’s cookin’ in the world of this independent bookstore?
    These items reflect what topics our customers are interested in. And
    evidently they are interested in both learning how to be funny and learning
    about female serial killers.

    1. Chuck Klosterman IV – by Chuck Klosterman $15.00 (Simon & Schuster)

    2. Comedy By the Numbers – by Eric Hoffman and Gary Rudoren $14.00
    (McSweeney’s)

    3. Book Bindery zine $1.00

    4. East Village Inky #34 zine – by Ayun Halliday $3.00

    5. Female Serial Killers – by Peter Vronsky $16.00 (Penguin)

    6. Or Else #2 Gloriana with Glenn Ganges by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn &
    Quarterly)

    7. Tape Op #60 $4.50

    8. Constant Rider Omnibus vol 1 Stories From the Public Transportation Front
    by Kate Lopresti $3.50 (Microcosm)

    9. Doris #23 zine by Cindy Crabb $1.50

    10. Butt #19 Amazing Magazine for Homosexuals $8.95

  • Memorial Day hours

    HAV A HAPI MEMODAI — K BAI

    Quimby’s will close early on Memorial Day.
    Our hours on Monday, May 28 will be 12pm – 5pm.

  • Photobooth action at Quimby's!

    Photobooth We’re Expecting!

    Are you ready for your closeup? We’re getting a Photobooth! B&w pictures in a classy black booth. Pictures will be $3.00 as opposed to the $2.00 in the picture here, but supposedly this is the booth we’ll be getting. We’re told it’ll be delivered in a week or two, so stay tuned!

  • New Stuff 3/23/07

    HAXON

    Good batch of zines this week and tons of new Goliath arty porn photo books with everything from boys in leather to busty strippers sayin’ cheese. Mitch O’Connel will be in the house tonight, come check him out and peep the new ish.
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  • New Spring Window Display

    Thanks to Myles for doing our new window install. She has been doing screen printing and custom murals for some time in Chicago, but recently left us to kick it in Philly. Good Luck!!!

  • NEW STUFF 3/09/07

    Cat Out of the Bag
    What a banner week for us at Quimby’s tonight is the crazy Beasts book release/signing party. There are new issues of Cinema Sewer, Dirty Found & Zine World, PLUS Jeff Brown has a new book and comic that just came in, and shit its been kinda sunny outside. So you defiantly should roll by. The thaw is in effect!!!!! Come say hi this week and don’t forget Lauren Weinstein on Thursday the 15th, that should be great!

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