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.
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. An excellent illustrated online glossary can be found at Stanford's electronic version of Bookbinding and the Conservation of books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology by Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, with drawings (reproduced online!) by Margaret R. Brown, at Bookbinding and the Conservation of books.
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