Book collecting sites

• Book Hunter Press
  This site lists and provides basic information about the Book Hunter's Guides. These publications lists and give information on many book shops around the country. Each book concerns itself with a particular part of the country (i.e. New England, Midwest). The guides provide information on a shops location, the emphasis of its collections, how high or low its prices are, how well it is organized, as well as any other comments the authors chose to include. Additionally, these books include driving directions for all shops and basic locator maps showing the location of the shops found in larger cities.

• Mining Co. guide to book collecting
  A couple areas of note on this site are its lists of bookaward-winners, book arts, and banned books links. This site also has a link to a good but basic page covering the terminology of books' physical condition that is typically used in the book trade.

• Glossary of book collecting terms
  This source, provided by the booksellers of Blackstone and Coke, provides a good starting point for those wishing to learn more book collecting terminology.

• Trussel's book page
  This site has much information of interest to the collector and seller of used and antiquarian books. For example, in addition to the inclusion of the list of pseudonyms, list of reference sources, and the list of "more search forms" described elsewhere on this site, Trussel's site also contains such things as a currency converter (useful when looking at books being sold by foreign book shops). This frame-based site continuously displays an subject index of pages on the site. However, to find some of this information it is sometimes necessary to go through a few levels of the site.

• Trussel's list of author pseudonyms
  This is a good-sized list of the various pseudonyms under which some authors have produced works.

• Trussel's list of reference sources for books and book collecting
  This is a quite comprehensive site, although it is definitely slanted towards sources for American and English language books.

• Author on the Highway
  Ever wondered when you favorite author is going to visit someplace close by so that you can finally get his or her books signed? Well, if you have this is the site for you. It contains a rather comprehensive list of authors and the places, times, and dates for any upcoming appearances.

• Bibliophile Bookshelf
  This site features a decent list of links, but its best virtue is its Biblio Book School , which features a series of "articles and discusions on various aspects of bookselling and collecting."

• Bibliophile Research Tools
  This site (maintained by the ABAA) features the online library catalogs, a good source for free bibliographic information.

• International Book Collectors Association
  The International Book Collectors Association maintains this very useful web site. Among the great amount of information presented here are links to general information on books, preservation, and collecting. One resource of particularly noteworthy is Glen Larson's guide to First edition identification.

• Rare Book and Manuscripts Section, ALA
  The RBMS section of the ALA maintains a web page that provides much information about this section of the ALA (i.e. its history, current committees, conferences, and information about its newsletter and its listserv). Additionally, this site has links to many special collections and book resources available on the web.

• Your Old Books
  This page maintained by the RBMS section of ALA is a good FAQ sheet concerning rare and used books and book collecting.

• What Makes a Book Collectible?
  This page, part of Motte and Baily, Booksellers' site, provides insight into why and how some books become collectable (and valuable) while others do not.

• Antiquarian Book Herald, The
  This e-journal concerns itself with all aspects of books and the book collecting world.

• News and Information on Rare, Used, and Antiquarian Books
  This is a list of free news and information sources on books and book collecting maintained by the International Book Collectors Association

• ABAA booknet
  This is the home of the most prestigious and most respected organization of antiquarian booksellers. This site not only gives information on the booksellers associated with this organization, but it also lists and provides information on the various book fairs that are sponsored by the ABAA. Additional information, such as the ABBA code of ethics, is available to those who would wish to view it.

• Lilly Library
  This site devoted to Indiana University's world famous Lilly Library. This site includes a virtual tour, library information, a calander of events, a guide to its collections, and a guide to its publications.

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