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Book Collecting
Associations
“Best Books” Lists
Book Arts
Book Reviews/Books in the Media
Conservation
General
- ABC for Book Collectors
A site maintained by ILAB on behalf of Oak Knoll Press and the British Library
- Book Information Web Site
“This website is devoted to all aspects of books, bookarts, bookhistory, letterpress printing, fine printing, bookschools, book- and paper restoration and conservation, paper and papermaking, bookartists,
bookbinding and bookbinders, antiquarian books, booksearch services, bookauctions, individual bookdealers, manuscripts, pop-up books, history of printing. A site with little multimedia gimmicks but specialized in offering information about the history and art of printed communication.”
- Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
“...[A] selection of useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and booksellers, both of new and second hand/antiquarian books.”
- Books on the Internet
A site maintained by the University of Texas at Austin General Libraries devoted primarily to electronic text sites but with links to many other book-related sites.
- The British Book Trade Index
A site maintained by the University of Birmingham with a link also to the Scottish Book Trade Index
- Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
Includes links to State Center Affiliates.
- Collecting Delaware Books
Includes, among other things, articles from the newsletter, Collecting Delaware Books, edited by John P. Reid, who also maintains the site.
- First-Edition Identification by Publisher
A site maintained by Quill & Brush
- The Library of Congress
- Rare Books on the Web
“A List of Resources Compiled by Albert Masters.”
- Your Old Books
“This guide covers some frequently asked questions about rare books and book values.”
History of the Book
- Americana Exchange
The Americana Exchange (Æ) is a site for those interested in the history
of and printing in and about the Americas.
- Bibliography for Western Book History
A bibliography developed and maintained by Richard W. Clement, University of Kansas.
- Book History Online
“BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries.” Site maintained by Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, in co-operation with national committees in countries all over the world.
- Grolier Club
- The Gutenberg Bible
A site created by the British Library that presents digitized versions of two copies of the Gutenberg Bible.
- The Mosher Press
A site maintained by Philip R. Bishop devoted to the life and works of Thomas Bird Mosher, 1852-1923, with links to other sites of interest.
Library and Other Catalogs
Online Exhibits
Book Buying: New Books
Books in Print Sites
- [French Books in Print] : alapage.com
- buchhandel.de
Includes access to VLB.
- [Italian Books in Print] : i libri Database-Casalini Libri
- [Spanish Books in Print and Out-of-Print] : Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas
- Verzeichnisse lieferbarer Bücher
A site with links to books in print sites for several countries, including Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, the United States, Canada, Asia, and Japan.
Bookstores Online
- AddALL
“The book search engine which does Book Search and Price Comparison among all major online bookstores to ease your online book shopping.”
- Amazon.com
In addition to the U.S. site, Amazon has sites in Canada, France,
Germany and the United Kingdom.
- Australian Online Bookshop
- Barnes & Noble.com
- BestBookBuys.com
“People who use Best Book Buys can search over 20 bookstores simultaneously to find who's got a book at the lowest price...Individuals use Best Book Buys to find all types of books, including computer books, textbooks, audio books, used books, and out-of-print books.”
- Remaindered Bargain Books
Online
A site with links to various remainder booksellers.
- Blackwell's Online Bookshop
- BooksPrice
A site for comparing books prices, used and new, for single titles or multiple titles.
- Borders.com
- Daedalus Books
A large site for remainder books.
- HamiltonBook.com
A large site for remainder books.
- powells.com
Online site for Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon.
- strandbooks.com
Online site for the Strand Book Store in New York
- U. S. Government Online Bookstore
Publishers Online
Book Buying: Rare, Used, Out-of-Print Books
Online Auctions/Book Sales
Online Booksellers: Searchable Collective Sites
- Abebooks
In addition to the main site, there are also sites for used books in France, Germany, and
the U.K. as well as a site designed for libraries, which is “made up of over 40 million books offered by 10,000 booksellers around the world”.
- AddALL
AddALL searches for used books simultaneously from several major sites.
- alibris
Over 35 million used, new and hard-to-find titles!
- Amazon.com: Rare & Used Books
Search for rare and used books from various dealers. Incorporates Bibliofind.com.
- Antbo
Bei uns finden Sie 2,1 Millionen antiquarische Bücher, Autographen, Grafiken, Noten und ausgewählte Schallplatten aus dem Angebot von 259 Antiquariaten.
- Antiqbook
“ANTIQBOOK unites more than 400 independent booksellers from all over the world.”
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), Find a Book
- Biblio.com
Brings together over 1,100 independent booksellers from around the world.
- Biblion
- Bibliophile Bookbase
- Bibliopoly
A site with a sophisticated search engine maintained by Bernard Quaritch Ltd on behalf of a number of high-end booksellers, mostly ILAB members.
- Books & Book Collecting
- BookFinder.com
Searches simultaneously several major sites.
- Book MetaSearch
- Chapitre.com
A major site for French books, new and rare
- Eurobuch
Lists books fro sale by a number of bookshops in Germany and Austria.
- Galaxidion: Le marché du livre ancien ou épuisé
A site for searching rare and out-of-print books in French bookshops.
- International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB)
Site includes a search function for books for sale by ILAB members.
- libriantichi.com
“More than 90 italian bookstores offer thousands of old, used, rare, and out of print books.”
- Maremagnum librorum
Search site for books in various European bookshops, particularly in Italy.
- mareLibri
A site maintained on behalf of five European sites: Antiqbook.com; Livre-Rare-Book.com;
Maremagnum.com; Prolibri.de; Uniliber.com
- viaLibri
- ZVAB
“Antiquarischer Bücher, dem größten deutschsprachigen Verzeichnis antiquarischer Bücher im Internet, einem Unternehmensbereich von buecher.de. Hier finden Sie mehr als 1,4 Millionen antiquarische Bücher.”
Online Booksellers: Lists of Individual Booksellers
Other Useful Resources
This page is maintained by
David L. Langenberg, Collection Development Department.
Last modified: 10/21/09
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