Powell's is the country's largest distributor of scholarly and academic remainders and hurts, with over 7000 titles in stock, primarily from prestigious university presses, but also featuring imports and quality trade publishers. Assortments are available. Powell's is the exclusive North American distributor of the highly acclaimed reprint series from Oxford University Press.

Powell's Books Wholesale issues catalogues by mail and email, and also has showroom hours by appointment. Please contact us below for more information.

Our wholesale pricing is quite competitive and is available to any bookstore, although we do have a small minimum order. For retail inquiries and retail catalogue orders (including dealer-to-dealer orders from our retail catalogues,) please contact our retail catalogue department.

Contact Powell's Books Wholesale

1500 S. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60608
phone (312) 666-5880
fax (312) 666-5887
Click here to send us an email.

Current Catalogues

Our current front list catalogue is available in PDF, Excel, and Word formats. Our other catalogues are available in Excel and PDF formats. Please click on the links below to download the file format and catalogue you desire. (File size is included in parenthesis after the file name.)

Please download and print our terms of sale. (26K)

Current Front List Catalogue

Minimum order is $50 net.
Everything is new since CIROBE, 2007.  Item numbers higher than 46726 are new since our December, 2007 new arrivals list.
Current Front List Catalogue in Excel Format (171K)
Current Front List Catalogue in PDF Format (190K)
Current Front List Catalogue in Word Format (1MB)

Complete Backlist

Minimum order is $50 net.
Complete Backlist in Excel Format (1.3MB)
Complete Backlist in PDF Format (1.5MB)æ

New Markdowns Catalogue

Minimum order is three copies per title, $50 net.
Markdowns Catalogue in Excel Format (445K)
Markdowns Catalogue in PDF Format (510K)

Backlist Markdowns Catalogue

Minimum order is three copies per title, $50 net.
Markdowns Catalogue in Excel Format (445K)
Markdowns Catalogue in PDF Format (510K)

Current Oxford Reprints Catalogue

Minimum order is $50 net.
Oxford Reprints Catalogue in Excel Format (42K)
Oxford Reprints Catalogue in PDF Format (37K)
For more information on our Oxford Reprints, please click here. Note that pricing information on the in-depth pages is retail pricing, please refer to the catalogues above for wholesale pricing.

Complete AMS Catalogue

Minimum order is $50 net.
AMS Catalogue in Excel Format (162K)
AMS Catalogue in PDF Format (178K)

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