We're proud to welcome new publishers to our roster for 2025!

We are very proud and excited to add a number of new publishers to our list this spring. Many have come to us because longtime sales rep Bruce Miller of Miller Trade Marketing has retired at the end of December, and we are glad to have the opportunity to pick up where Bruce has left off and continue offering quality representation for these excellent university and academic presses.

This list is in-progress, and we’ll continue to update it over the coming weeks.

Our new publishers:
Actar D
Springer Nature
SUNY Press
University of Georgia Press
University Press of Kentucky *
University of Minnesota Press *
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Texas Press

Another big change launched on January 1: we are now your reps for the new Walker Books Group: Candlewick Press has joined forces with Holiday House and Peachtree and Pixel + Ink! Orders for all four of these publishers can be combined!

If you have questions about how to place an order with any of our publishers, or terms and special offers, or who your rep is, please check in with your Abraham Associates sales rep. You can consult our Publishers page for the latest complete information – or you can email Ted in our office with specific questions.

* Note: we do not represent UP Kentucky to accounts in Kentucky, and we do not represent U Minnesota to accounts in Minnesota. We can help you connect with your house reps at those presses, if this applies to you.

We're exhibiting at the Heartland Fall Forum in Milwaukee, Oct 7-9

Come find us in booths 539- 546, 550-557, 567, 568 in the Regency Ballroom on the fifth floor! The trade show floor will be open in the morning of Tuesday, October 8 from 10 am to 12 noon, and again after lunch, from 1 pm to 5 pm.

And we’ve created a handy landing page on our site for any questions or follow up you might have. You can find our show specials, sign up for our email list, and get links to our publishers’ catalogs on Edelweiss!

We proudly welcome two new publishers for 2023: Microcosm Publishing and Southern Illinois University Press!

As we get the Spring 2023 season underway, we’re very happy to let everyone know that we’ve begun representing SIU Press and Microcosm Publishing this month. Any of our customers who wish to order (or reorder) books from Microcosm or SIU can send orders to us now, and we’re preparing our markups for their Spring 2023 catalogs now!

Microcosm Publishing

Did you know? In 2022, Publishers Weekly named Microcosm the fastest growing publisher! But their roots are humble and very indie. They’ve long been on our list of “publishers we wish we represented”! It’s hard to describe them any better than their own site does:

Microcosm was started by Joe Biel in a bedroom closet as a distro and record label in 1996 and is now among the oldest independent book publishing houses in Portland, OR. Microcosm focuses on relating the experiences of what it is like to be a marginalized person and strives to be recognized for spirit, creativity, and value. All books are printed in the U.S., and the company doubles the industry average in number of women authors and prioritizes hiring of special needs employees. Microcosm constantly poses the question “How can we remove barriers to success for marginalized people in our industry?

Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and zines about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice.

You’ve probably sold copies of Raven Bookstore co-owner Danny Caine’s How To Resist Amazon And Why, but you may not have gone deeper into their list! Here’s a gallery of some of their recent best-selling and favorite books:

Microcosm distributes their own books, zines, stickers, videos, and other products. We can help you get started ordering with Microcosm quite easily, if you have not ordered from them before!

Handy Edelweiss links:
Spring 2023 frontlist
Fall Winter 2022 frontlist
2022 bestsellers
2022 Zines
All Sidelines (DVDs, Magnets, Pins, Posters, T-shirts, Cards, Patches, and even a Fanny Pack)

Southern Illinois University Press

SIU Press was founded in the mid-1950s and ever since has been publishing books primarily in the humanities and social sciences. They have some really well-done and interesting books about Illinois and Chicago history.

As their own site says:

“The Press has become especially well known for its publications in First Amendment Studies, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre, and Rhetoric and Composition, and for two exceptional multi-volume scholarly works: The Early, Middle, and Later Works of John Dewey, and The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. … In recent years, Southern Illinois University Press has focused its list on a smaller number of areas of publication: American history, poetry, regional studies, rhetoric and composition, and theatre.”

We were immediately struck by the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and by their Chicago history books! Here’s a gallery of some of their best bookstore-friendly trade books:

SIU Press is distributed by Chicago Distribution Center (CDC), so we can easily send in orders for you as standalone orders, or combining with other CDC-distributed publishers we represent.

Handy Edelweiss links:
Spring 2023 frontlist
Fall 2022 frontlist
Bookstore favorite selections
Chicago-interest books backlist
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry backlist

Welcome to our new sales rep, Alice Mesjak!

We’re happy to announce that Alice Mesjak has joined Abraham Associates as a sales rep. She’ll be based in Chicago, working with us a few days a week while still working as a bookseller part-time at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston.

Alice’s focus will be working with new bookstores as they get ready to open, and working with additional other accounts across our territory to help them order our publishers’ books and sideline items.

She has been a full time bookseller at Bookends & Beginnings since graduating from Denison University. Her favorite types of books involve ghosts, revenge, and/or women behaving terribly.

We’re looking forward to Alice getting to meet (or say hello to) many booksellers at Heartland Fall Forum in St Louis!

Say hello to Phaidon Press!

We are very excited to announce that, effective Feb 1, 2021, Abraham Associates will be the exclusive sales reps to the book trade in the Midwest for Phaidon Press.

Across many of our favorite categories, Phaidon has been publishing for decades with epic scale and innovative design – Art, Design, Food, Children’s Books, Photography, Architecture. Fashion, and Gardening. Phaidon was founded in Vienna in 1923 – nearly 100 years ago! Owned and based here in America since 2012, their publishing program has evolved in terms of its commercial appeal while staying true to its commitment to working with creatives across all the arts.

Phaidon means The Story of Art and The Art Book and major artists like Kerry James Marshall and Yayoi Kusama, as well as children’s book legends like Tomi Ungerer and Hervé Tullet. It means their massive world cuisine food surveys and chefs like Magnus Nilsson, René Redzepi, and Ferran Adria and plenty of cookbooks for home cooks. They have some of the biggest names in photography like Annie Leibovitz, Lauren Greenfield, and Nan Goldin, and collaborations with game-changers like Nike and Supreme and Michigan’s own Herman Miller – not to mention the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Museum, and other institutions around the world. Phaidon has consistently published fascinating and instantly accessible books for every interest.

We step into the shoes of longtime Phaidon sales rep, Chris Conti, who recently announced he is moving to a new position at IPG. We are thrilled to be able to take over for Chris and carry things forward.

Phaidon’s head of sales Amy Hordes is from the Midwest, too, like all of us Abrahams – she’s from Ohio, with family throughout the region, so we know that Midwestern store needs will continue to be a Phaidon priority.

We can’t wait to start talking with all our booksellers about Phaidon’s Winter / Spring 2021 list, and really dig into the deep backlist treasures that await us. We are very much looking forward to Phaidon continuing to be a strong partner for our indie bookstore friends in the coming years.

If you’re interested in getting to know Phaidon better, you can follow them on Twitter at @Phaidon and Instagram at @PhaidonSnaps.