Little City Used Book Sale @ Old Orchard thru June 17th

From Gaper's Block

Little City Used Book Sale (Formerly Brandeis Book Sale)
For those of us who used to trek to Skokie every summer for the Brandeis Book Sale, mourn not the loss of those jaunty book-slingin' ladies...the sale's been taken over by Little City. The Little City Book Sale promises to be one of the best used book events in the Chicago area, so don't miss out! The sale is on today from 10am to 9pm at Old Orchard Westfield Mall, and runs until Sunday, June 17th (times vary). More info by calling 847.221.7856.

Thanks JoelF for mentioning this in the Printer's Row thread.

I'm headed over to it tomorrow morning! I'm so glad to see this book sale continuing.

Hi,

I went to the book sale for about an hour around lunch today. I concentrated only on cookbooks because it was all I could fit into my time slot. There was maybe 200-300 linear feet of cookbooks that I systematically looked at each one row by row picking out curiosities and must-haves into my basket for triage later on. In some cases I picked up two copies of the same book though in varying degrees of condition. I bought some books I am pretty sure I have at home, though I knew I could easily off load them later.

Among the treasures bought:

- Maryland's Way cookbook commissioned by their Bi-Centennial committee in 1963
- The Little House Cookbook for young members of the family
- Columbus Menu: Italian Cuisine after the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus by Stefano Milioni
- Cookbook of the Seven Seas by Dagmar Freuchen. When making final selections I popped this book open to discover my randomly selected recipes was for Brain Salad. How can you not give this book some space on a shelf?
- Culinary Delights created by the Members of the Midwest Chef's Society. A high falutin variation of the community cookbooks. One one page alone there is German potato pancakes, crisp bacon and stewed apples for 25. Just below is Marie Antoinette Parfait served in frosted Champagne glass.
- Far Eastern Cookery by Madhur Jaffery

For $90.50 I got a lot of fine reading and replacement copies of old favorites.

This is Little City's first year conducting this sale. When I have gone to Brandeis sales, there not only books on the table. There were boxed books underneath waiting to be displayed. While waiting for the car I saw they were still offloading books from the truck to refresh. It is entirely possible books I would have loved have yet to be displayed.

Regards,

I figured someone named Freuchen writing the cookbook of the seven seas had to be related to Peter Freuchen of Eskimo fame... and I was right:

Dagmar Cohn Freuchen-Gale

Imagine Brain Salad at all those parties with Suzy Parker and Diana Vreeland...

The Columbus one sounds fascinating too, Italian food right at the moment it transformed in so many ways.

I picked up a neat little book in the cooking section of the book sale: How to Eat Better for Less Money, by James Beard and Sam Aaron.

Books today (Sunday June 17) are $0.50 each. As of last night many areas were picked over, but still a lot of novels, some cookbooks, gardening books, etc. I picked up a copy of T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Road to Wellvile, about John Harvey Kellogg's "Temple of Health" - and there were other copies: just to keep this on a food-focus.