PW's BEA Exhibitors Guide: U-V
Compiled and edited by Jill A. Tardiff with John Niernberger, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa and Carol Wiener -- Publishers Weekly, 4/30/2007
Ultimate Winner
Booth: 1540.
Umbrage Books
Booth: 2444.
Umbrella Publishing
Booth: 2348.
Unbridled Books
Featured: Hick by Andrea Portes; The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell; Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert; Lost Son by M. Allen Cunningham; Every Past Thing by Pamela Thompson. Giveaways: galleys, featured titles. Booth: 5064.
Under the Mango Tree
This first-time exhibitor offers handmade leather journals. Booth: 553.
United States Playing Card Co.
Featured: high-end playing card decks: KEM; Congress; Bicycle. Discounts: 6% ($300 minimum). Booth: 853.
Universal Map
Publishes and distributes maps, atlases, playing cards, children’s maps and travel activities, globes and more. Featured: 2007 North America Road Atlas series; Universal Map series (city/state road atlases/travel maps); Little Passenger Kids’ Travel Activities series; Visual Voyage (educational maps/atlases); U.S. and World (rolled maps). Booths: 418, 4502.
University Games
Booth: 4745.
Univ. of Alabama Press
Booth: 4877.
Univ. of Arizona Press
Featured: Crossing the Yard by Richard Shelton; Time of Grace by Ken Lamberton; Stones Witness by Margaret Randall; I Swallow Turquoise for Courage by Hershman R. John; Greta Gaard: A Memoir. Giveaways: galleys: Crossing the Yard, Time of Grace. Discounts: 45%, free freight. Booth: 2944.
Univ. of California Press
Featured from Univ. of California Press: Ending Slavery by Kevin Bales; Down in New Orleans by Billy Sothern; They Called Me Mayer July by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; Historical Atlas of California by Derek Hayes; American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel; Earth Under Fire by Gary Braasch. From British Film Institute: The Big Lebowski by J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters. From Huntington Library Press: Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books by Randolph Caldecott. Discounts: 48% on backlist orders of 10 or more books (nine-unit maximum per title). Booth: 3221.
Univ. of Chicago Press
Featured: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Ashley Gilbertson; Maps, The Measure of Everything by James Akerman. Booth: 3227.
Univ. of Georgia Press
Featured: Dough: A Memoir by Mort Zachter; Motoring by John Jakle and Keith Sculle; Solitary Goose by Sydney Plum; American Wars, American Peace by Philip Beidler; Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction winners. Discounts: 48% (trade/scholarly, front/backlist). Booths: 4775–4779.
Univ. of Hawai’i Press
Featured: Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd by Masayo Duus; Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology by Julia Murray; Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China by Xing Ruan; The Three Boys by Yeshi Dorjee; Sherlock in Shanghai by Timothy Wong. Giveaways: macadamia nut candy; pens; orchids. Discounts: 50% (no minimum). Booth: 3728.
Univ. of Illinois Press
Featured: Rachel in the World: A Memoir by Jane Bernstein; Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story by Diane Diekman; Lincoln the Lawyer by Brian Dirck; Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story by Roni Stoneman; Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn by Andrew O’Toole. Discounts: 47% (no minimum). Booth: 3033.
Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Featured: Hungry Hill by Carole O’Malley Gaunt; Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma by Ethan Carr; The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt; Heavier than Air: Stories by Nona Caspers; Designing the Nation’s Capital, edited by Sue Kohler and Pamela Scott. Booths: 3132, 3134.
Univ. of Michigan Press
Featured: Beyond Black & White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide by Ronald Fernandez; Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir by Joanne Leonard; Chic Ironic Bitterness by R. Jay Magill Jr.; What Gay Men Want by David M. Halperin; American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South by Christopher Benfey. Discounts: 50% (retailers). Booth: 4738.
Univ. of Minnesota Press
Featured: A Call for Heresy by Anouar Majid; Sedaris by Kevin Kopelson; Looking for Asian America by Wing Young Huie; Shopping Our Way to Safety by Andrew Szasz; Dreamworlds of Alabama by Allen Shelton. Discounts: extra 3%. Booth: 3121.
Univ. of Missouri Press
Featured: The Power of Two: A Twin Triumph Over Cystic Fibrosis by Isabel Stenzel Byrnes and Anabel Stenzel; The Man Behind the Mask: Memoirs of a Physician by Thomas Mallor and Seth Greenwald; Holding Out and Hanging On: Portraits of New Orleans After Katrina by Thomas Neff; Mizzou: Then and Now by Richard Wallace; Porcupine, Picayune & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names by Jim Bernhard. Giveaways: themed items; tote bags; candy. Discounts: 46% plus free freight on 10 or more books. Booth: 4874.
Univ. of Nebraska Press
Featured from Univ. Nebraska Press: launching At Table series, written by Jane Grigson; Because a Fire Was in My Head by Lynn Stegner; Branch Rickey by Lee Lowenfish; Into That Silent Sea by Francis French and Colin Burgess; Bigger than Life by Dinah Lenney; What Becomes You by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz. From Bison Original: Under the Boards by Jeffrey Lane; Scoring from Second by Philip F. Deaver; Encyclopedia of the Great Plains by David J. Wishart. Giveaways: galleys: Unlearning to Fly by Jennifer Bryce and Only a Game by Bill Littlefield; bison cookie cutters; bison jerky; notepads. Drawings: enter to win complete At Table series. Discounts: free freight on one order, front- or backlist (five-book minimum). Booth: 3174.
Univ. of North Carolina Press
Featured: Moravian Christmas in the South by Nancy Thomas; The Complete Guide to Soccer Fitness and Training by Donald T. Kirkendall and William E. Garrett Jr.; Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night by Sallie Ann Robinson; Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America by Jeff Wiltse; Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out by Steve Estes. Giveaways: Christmas cookies, “squeeze” soccer balls. Discounts: 50% (one order, retail/library accounts). Booth: 2975.
Univ. of Oklahoma Press
Featured: Some of Tim’s Stories by S.E. Hinton; Harpsong by Rilla Askew; After Eden by Valerie Miner; Drift by Jim Miller; American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs by T. Lindsay Baker. Discounts: 30%, free freight. Booth: 3250.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Booth: 2879.
Univ. of South Carolina Press
Featured: In the Shadow of the Civil War by Nat Brandt; Army 101 by David Axe; Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do by Sam Pickering; Yearning to Breathe Free by Andrew Billingsley; Dead Men Tell No Tales by Joseph Gibbs. Giveaways: Dead Men Tell No Tales galleys. Discounts: 49%, free freight on six or more units. Booth: 4867.
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Featured: Journeyman’s Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner’s Mississippi to Post-9/11 by Adam Gussow; Elites for Peace: The Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964–1968 by Gary S. Stone; Thomas Wolfe: When Do the Atrocities Begin? by Joanne Mauldin; Some Day I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist’s Life by Sam Venable; Autumn Spring: Essays by Sam Pickering. Discounts: 48%, trade titles (assorted, six-book minimum); 40%, short-discount titles. Booth: 4868.
Univ. of Virginia Press
Featured: Thomas Jefferson by Natalie S. Bober; Nature Cure by Richard Mabey; A Useful Dog by Donald McCaig; A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe by Freeman J. Dyson; Train Time by John R. Stilgoe. Discounts: 50%, backlist. Booth: 4862.
Univ. of Washington Press
Featured: Heroes, Hacks, and Fools by Ted Van Dyk; Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818–1875 by Russell Alan Potter; The Adventures of Eddie Fung by Judy Yung. Discounts: 50% on 10 or more assorted trade backlist titles. Booth: 4778.
Univ. Press of Florida
Booth: 4070.
Univ. Press of Kansas
Featured: American Angels by Peter Gardella; iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era by Mark Andrejevic; The Supreme Court by Peter Charles Hoffer et al.; Hip-Hop Revolution by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar; The Liberals’ Moment by Bruce Miroff. Discounts: 50%, backlist (retailers). Booth: 4777.
Univ. Press of Kentucky
Featured: A History of the Modern Chinese Army by Xiaobing Li; Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture by Raymond J. Haberski Jr.; Wendell Berry, edited by Jason Peters; The Oprah Phenomenon, edited by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson. Giveaways: galleys, books. Discounts: 50% plus free freight. Booth: 4947.
Univ. Press of Mississippi
Featured: Art Spiegelman: Conversations, edited by Joseph Witek; Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Topffer by David Kunzle; Form and Fantasy: The Block Prints of Walter Anderson, edited by Mary Anderson Pickard and Patricia Pinson; Pleasant Journeys and Good East Along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder, edited by Jay Williams; Stepping into the Picture: Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble by Robert J. McKinnon. Discounts: 48%, free freight on five or more books (retail accounts, one ship to address); 30%, free freight on five or more books (library accounts, one ship to address). Booth: 4945.
Univ. Press of New England
Featured: The Story of Modern Skiing by John Fry; Selling Anxiety by Caryl Rivers; Healing by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard; La Nilsson by Birgit Nilsson; The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing by Margaret O. Killinger. Discounts: 50%, in-stock backlist. Booth: 4150.
Unshelved/Overdue Media
This first-time exhibitor publishes a daily comic strip about librarians. Featured: Unshelved comic strip collections by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum: Unshelved, Vol. 1: Unshelved; Vol. 2: What Would Dewey Do?; Vol. 3: Library Mascot Cage Match; Vol. 4: Book Club. Discounts: buy any two T-shirts, receive a “Read Responsibly” T-shirt. Booth: 1246.
UPS Supply Chain Solutions
Booth: 845.
Urano Publishing
Booth: 2329.
Urban Books
Featured: Turned Out by Angel Hunter; Talk That Talk by P.R. Hawkins; Around the Way Girls 4 by LaJill Hunt and Roy Glenn; In Greene Pastures by Kendra Norman-Bellamy; Rain Storm by Vanessa Miller. Discounts: see Kensington booth for details. Booth: 3520.
URJ Press
Featured adult: The Torah: A Modern Commentary (Travel Edition) by Rabbi Gunther Plaut; A Taste of Torah by Rabbi Ron Isaacs; The Complete Jewish Songbook from Transcontinental Music Publications; A Taste of Hebrew by Rabbi Aaron Starr. Featured children’s: My Cousin Tamar Lives in Israel by Michelle Shapiro Abraham. Giveaways: Hartarah Commentary by Rabbi Gunther Plaut; books (at signings); music pencils. Discounts: 15% (standard); 25% (bookstores/bulk orders); 40% (new accounts w/minimum); free freight (all orders). Booth: 1103.
U.S.A. Books Abroad
Certified by the U.S. Department of Commerce under the Export Trading Act of 1982, bringing opportunities to U.S. publishers abroad. Booth: 2541.
U.S. Games Systems
Offers more than 450 proprietary products, including specialty playing cards, decks, educational games, tarot decks and books. Featured: Wizard Card Game; Hexago Continuo; SNATCH Word Game; Rider Waite Tarot Deck; Crowly Thoth Tarot Deck by Alister Crowley; The Lover’s Path Tarot Set (deck/book) by Kris Waldherr. Drawings: win a “ball of whacks.” Discounts: extra 5% (orders over $800, wholesale accounts); free freight (orders $350). Booth: 4675.
U.S. Media Partners
This first-time exhibitor deals in remainders and hurt books from leading publishers. Featured: broad range of titles from various categories. Booth: 5102.
VanDam
Offers maps and atlases for cities worldwide in various formats; offers customized print mapping and packaging services to other publishers as well as electronic mapping solutions for the Web and mobile devices. Featured: StreetSmart; StreetSmart Mini; ArtSmart; ShopSmart; Unfolds maps; urban@tlas city atlases. Giveaways: StreetSmart NYC Midtown; StreetSmart NYC Downtown; ArtSmart NYC; ShopSmart NYC; NY@tlas; NYC Unfolds. Discounts: free freight. Booths: 4510, 4512.
Vanderbilt Univ. Press
This first-time exhibitor publishes trade, scholarly and regional titles; offers co-publications with the Country Music Foundation. Featured: Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs by Milt Hinton et al.; Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church by Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea. Drawings: win VUP trade backlist. Discounts: free freight. Booth: 4866.
Vanguard Press
Featured: The Abduction by Mark Gimenez; Roots by Alex Haley; Scavenger by David Morrell; Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge. Booths: 4438, 4439.
Vaughn Printing
Booth: 1215.
Vegetarian Resource Group
Featured: Simply Vegan by Debra Wasserman and Reed Mangels; Vegan Meals for One or Two by Nancy Berkoff; Meatless Meals for Working People and The Lowfat Jewish Vegetarian Cookbook, both by Debra Wasserman; Vegan Handbook by the Vegetarian Resource Group. Giveaways: I Love Animals and Broccoli Coloring Book; bumper stickers; Vegetarian Journal; Vegetarian Restaurants in New York City; I Love Animals and Broccoli Shopping Basket Activity Book. Booth: 1711.
Velázquez Press
Featured: Velázquez Spanish and English Dictionary by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena; Velázquez World Wide Spanish English Dictionary; Velázquez Large Print Spanish and English Dictionary; Velázquez Spanish and English Dictionary Pocket Edition. Giveaways: books; signed galleys; bookmarks. Discounts: free freight. Booth: 2351.
VeloPress
Featured: Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell by Philippe Bouvet et al., trans. by David V. Herlihy; Gracie Goat’s Big Bike Race by Erin Mirabella, illus. by Lisa Horstman; Zinn & the Art of Triathlon Bikes by Lennard Zinn; Bicycling & the Law by Bob Mionske; Paid to Suffer: A Year in the Pro Cycling Life by Neal Rogers. Giveaways: Gracie Goat water bottles. Booth: 4216.
Verlag Interna
This first-time exhibitor publishes practical guides on how to life and study abroad for prospective students. Featured: Study in Germany by Gabriela Stefanut. Booth: 2405.
Verso
Featured: Dead Children Playing by Stanley Donwood; Che: A Graphic Novel by Spain Rodriguez; Planet of Slums by Mick Davis; My Grandmother: A Memoir by Fethiye Cetin; The Archive by Walter Benjamin. Booth: 3862.
Vertical
Featured: Boy by “Beat” Takeshi Kitano; The Blade of the Courtesans by Keiichiro Ryu; Andromeda Stories by Keiko Takemiya; MW by Osamu Tezuka; Aranzi Aronzo Craft Books series by Aranzi Aronzo. Drawings: raffle for signed copies of Keiko Takemiya’s To Terra, Vol. 1. Booth: 4167.
Victoria and Albert Museum London
Featured: The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–57, edited by Claire Wilcox (exhibition catalogue); Balenciaga by Lesley Ellis Miller; Dior by Dior by Christian Dior; Out of the Ordinary, edited by Laurie Britton-Newell; Medieval & Renaissance Treasures from the V&A by Paul Williamson. Booths: 4374–4378; 4375–4379.
Vintage Books
Featured: The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud; The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright; The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, edited by Otto Penzler; What Is the What by Dave Eggers. Drawings: for tickets to the Broadway production of The Year of Magical Thinking. Booth: 4238.
Viper Entertainment
This first-time exhibitor publishes comic books and graphic novels under its Viper Comics imprint. Featured: Dummy’s Guide to Danger, Vol. 1 by Jason M. Burns; Josh Howard Presents: Sasquatch by Josh Howard et al.; Oddly Normal, Vol. 2 by Otis Frampton; A Bit Haywire by Scott Zirkel; Villains by Adam Cogan. Drawings: daily (June 1/June 2) for two complete sets of in-print graphic novels. Discounts: 60%, free freight. Booth: 1703.
Virgin Publishing
Booth: 3609.
Visible Ink Press
Featured: The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena by J. Gordon Melton; The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book by David L. Hudson; American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media by Mike Mayo. Booth: 2500.
Visor E.A.S.A. Int’l
Booth: 2325.
Visual Systems
This specialty printer produces book components. Featured: BaseOne (alternative to traditional book covers/jackets). Booth: 2961.
VitalSource
This first-time exhibitor offers a digital eBook format (VitalBook). Featured: digital titles from various publishers. Booth: 3469.
Viz Media
Featured from Viz Media: Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa; Inuyasha by Rumiko Takahashi; M.A.R. by Nobuyuki Anzai; Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs by Yukiya Sakuragi; O-Parts Hunter by Seishi Kishimoto. From Viz Signature: Naoki Urasawa’s Monster by Naoki Yrasawa; The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezu; Gyo and Uzumaki, both by Junji Ito; Tekkon Kinkreet: Black & White by Taiyo Matsumoto. From Viz Fiction: Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe; Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Noriko Ogiwara; Fullmetal Alchemist titles by Makoto Inoue, including Under the Faraway Sky and To Each His Own Bonds; Letters from Iwo Jima by Tadamichi Kuribayashi. From Shonen Jump: Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto; Bleach by Tite Kubo; Death Note by Takeshi Obata; D. Grayman by Katsura Hoshino; Buso Renkin by Nobuhiro Watsuki. From Shojo Beat: Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino; Absolute Boyfriend by Yuu Watase; Backstage Prince by Kanaoko Sakurakoji; Gentlemen’s Alliance + by Arina Tanemura; Millennium Snow by Bisco Hatori. Booth: 3833.
