Here are a few excellent book collecting links to be getting on with:
Popula recommends ABE, at Advanced Book Exchange, one of the few halfway independent database search services left. Save a bundle (up to 50% off what you'd pay at Amazon's out of print service!), deal directly with independent booksellers and support independent business on the Web.
Another good independent database: Antiqbook.
Yet another small but growing independent: Digibib.
Book Hunter Press Used Book Lover's
Guides
Publishers of the Used Book Lover's Guides, seven regional guides to over
7,900 used, out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers in the United States
and Canada.
A few excellent booksellers, in no particular order:
Lee Kirk of The Prints and the Paper.
Julie Fauble, Century Books.
The esteemed Sam Gottlieb of Camelback Books.
Bibliophile is a favorite listserv of dealers and collectors in out of print books. It costs $30/year to subscribe, but it's worth every penny. An education. You can subscribe at: Bibliophile.
Far and away the best general reference site on book collecting we have seen is Trussel. An unbelievably comprehensive resource.
Wow! The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing site is mind-blowingly cool. Check it out just for fun.
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