Books and Publishing
Abrams & Chronicle Books
Abrams & Chronicle Books distributes a wide range of award-winning visual books, gifts, puzzles, and stationery. Our titles can be found in museums both nationally and internationally, and include best-selling and globally renowned authors, illustrators, designers, and photographers.
Based in London, Abrams & Chronicle Books is the European arm of two U.S. publishing houses: ABRAMS, based in New York, and Chronicle Books, based in San Francisco. In addition to these lists, Abrams & Chronicle Books also sells and distributes other fine illustrated publishers, including: Laurence King Publishing, BIS Publishers, V&A Publishing, Princeton Architectural Press, Knock Knock, Emily McDowell & Friends, Barefoot Books, Galison Mudpuppy, Christian Lacroix, SelfMadeHero, Magic Cat and Smith Street Books.
2020 has seen us add to our extensive and wide ranging backlist titles such as Magical Creatures and Mythical Beasts, a beautiful book of myths and legends that allows children to discover mythical monsters for themselves using a magic UV torch; the Knock Knock Personal Library Kits, the perfect gifts for bibliophiles, which provide the tools to build up a personal lending library; The Short Story of Women Artists, the latest in our bestselling Short Story series that tells the history of female artists and their achievements; to our Barefoot Books Incredible Animals book, that guides children around the animal kingdom, covering everything from the peacock mantis shrimp to the pink fairy armadillo.
Whether you are a botanical garden, a fine art gallery, a heritage library or a natural history museum, we have creative, brilliant and beautiful titles that will sell from your shop.
