BOOK SOURCES
Here are various websites at which to find out about (or even to order, if
"security" is not a major issue) books. Books in
Print is accessible online to people with a valid Penn i.d.
Lists of bookstores can be found at Selected
Bookstores (from Oxford University's Computer Laboratory archive) and
AcqWeb's
Directory of Publishers and Vendors. The Book Industry Study Group can be reached
via this link (and includes A Guide to Book Publishers' Archives).
Canadian books are a focus of the CBC's Info Books and Writers
page. At The Library of Congress, Abby Yochelson, Cassy Ammen, et
alii, have produced Collection
Development and the Internet: A Brief Handbook for Recommending Officers
in the Humanities and Social Sciences . . . .
FOR PENN USERS ONLY:
Global Online Bibliographic Information Service
(YBP Library Services)
A good example of a book collector's home page -- which includes
addresses from which you may order books -- is to be found here (duck! -- it
includes sound effects, although -- now -- only if you want them). Other
"antique, rare, and used book" sources can be located from
Bookcases and other book-related chachkes readers may
think they need can be checked out on (inter alia) the Levenger Home Page.
Used and o.p. booksellers, not all of them available through online
search engines or their own websites, can often be located through using
(inter alia) Book Hunter Press's Used Book Lover's Guides guides.
Book reviews are available from (inter alia) The New York Times Book
Review. Book news is available from many sources; for the UK,
for instance, from Books
Today.
- General New Book Sources
- USA -- new books:
- Amazon.com
- American Association of University
Presses (AAUP) and its online
catalogue
- Babelguides.com (a site for
world literature in English translation)
- Barnes and Noble
- BookCloseOuts.com (a site
for remainders)
- Book Culture (536 West 112th
Street, New York, New York)
- BookSense.com (a site for U.S.
independent, locally-owned bookstores)
- Borders
- Consortium Book Sales &
Distribution
- Frontlist (an online bookstore
for new scholarly and theoretical books)
- Kaboombooks.com (discount
books)
- Labyrinth Books (122
Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ; 290 York Street, New Haven, CT)
- Midnight Special (1318 Third
Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401)
- Seminary Co-op Bookstore (5757
South University, 1301 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637)
- Small Press Distribution
- Strand Book Store (828
Broadway, at 12th Street, New York, NY 10003)
- University Press
Books (2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704)
- Booksprice.com is a place at
which you can compare book prices at several online book stores
- UK (England; Scotland) -- new books:
- Amazon.co.uk
- See also ACHUKA:
Children's Books U.K. (in conjunction with Amazon.co.uk)
- Blackwell (Oxford; but
now also including Heffer's [Cambridge], James Thin [Edinburgh], etc.)
- See also Blackwell's "academic Amazon," Blackwell's Online Bookshop
Almost the first
thing I did [on arriving as an undergraduate at Oxford in the early 1930s]
was to assemble for myself a little library, something made possible by
opening an account at Blackwell's -- an account not finally settled until
I started earning my living four or five years later. I did once pay
something in response to a characteristic and rather moving letter from
them to the effect that 'from time to time Blackwell's found themselves in
need of ready money and for this reason they would be very much obliged if
the substantial bill which had accumulated over many years might become
the subject of my attention, perhaps even of a payment on account'. Oxford
scholarship -- even Oxford literacy, owes more to Blackwell's, surely the
world's finest bookshop, than to any other amenity the University
offers.
Peter Medawar, Memoir of a Thinking Radish: An
Autobiography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p.
44.
- bol.com
- Internet Bookshop (i.e., W.
H. Smith Online)
- Waterstone's
- Ireland -- new books:
- Kennys Bookshop (Galway)
- Canada -- new books:
- Amazon.ca
- chapters.indigo.ca
- Canadian
New Bookstores with searchable catalogues
- Australia -- new books:
- Angus & Robertson
- James S. Bennett (library
suppliers)
- Clouston & Hall
-- Academic Remainders (Canberra)
- Collins Booksellers
- Dymocks Booksellers
- Gleebooks (an independent
Sydney bookstore)
- France -- new books:
- Alapage.com
- Amazon.fr
- Italy -- new books:
- Internet
Bookshop Italia
- Germany -- new books:
- Amazon.de
- For comparative prices at various online new book
sites, see Bestbookbuys.com.
- General Old, Used, and Rare Book Sources
- AddALL Used and Out of Print
Book Search (US)
- BookFinder.com (US)
- UKBookWorld.com (UK)
- ABEBooks.com
- AKALIT
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of
America, with links to online dealers and catalogues, the entire ABAA
membership lists, theft reporting forms, information for book collectors,
and so forth
- Bibliodirect
- Biblion.com (UK)
- Bibliopoly.com
- Book Avenue
- Bookstore Tourism (a
guide to regional bookstores)
- Chambal (US)
- ChooseBooks.com
- Elibron
- EuroLibri.net (Europe
generally)
- L'Ex-Libris (a French site)
- ILAB: International League of
Antiquarian Booksellers has a site that includes a search mechanism:
Booksold
- Mare Magnum Librorum
- Strandbooks.com
- Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer
Bücher (ZVAB)
- A Number of Specific Old, Used, and Rare Book
Sources
- A long list of sources for book collectors with an antiquarian
focus is found at The
Essentials of Book Collecting: An Essay in Parts. Part 5. Book Collecting
on the Internet (here is Lucas's complete Essay)
- Advanced Book Exchange
- Charles Agvent
- William H. Allen
(Philadelphia)
- American Booksellers
Association
- The Americanist (Norman and
Michal Kane, Pottstown, PA)
- Anacapa Books
- AntiQBooks (a
combined listing for European and American dealers in old, used, and rare
books)
- Any Amount of Books
(a UK source specializing in rare books, first editions, modern
literature, art, poetry, scholarly/academic books, antiquarian, etc.)
- The Asian American
Bookseller (from the Asian American
Writers' Workshop)
- Asian Rare Books
- Baker & Taylor
- Beasley Books
- Between the Covers
- Bibliofind (now part of
Amazon.com)
- Biblioquest
International (Australian used and antiquarian books)
- Blake's Books (Boston)
- Bolerium
Books
- The
Book Chest
- BookPages (online UK
books)
- Book
People (information about Book People Mailing List, a source for
information about new online books); see also The On-line Books Page
- Book Sales in
America
- BookWire
- Brick Row Book Shop (rare,
scholarly, and first edition books and manuscript material of 18th, 19th &
early 20th century English & American literature)
- British
Books@American Prices
- countrybookstore.co.uk (a UK
online bookstore, offering discounts)
- Daedalus
- Diana
Dominguez (specializing in Chicano/Chicana literature)
- Nederlandsche Vereeniging van
Antiquaren (NVvA) -- the Dutch Association of Antiquarian Booksellers
- Episteme Links (this
site, devoted to the history of philosophy from the ancient world to the
present, is a source of books in the subject, as well)
- Joseph J. Felcone, Inc.
- The Fine Books
Co. (Rochester, Michigan)
- Future Fantasy Bookstore
- Galaxidion: Le marché
ancien ou épuisé
- R. A. Gekoski,
Modern Literature / Rare Books and Manuscripts (London)
- Bennett Gilbert (rare books
in the history of ideas)
- Heritage Book Shop,
Inc. (modern firsts, etc.)
- The Internet Theatre
Bookshop
- JustBooks (a UK used book
source)
- Kennys Bookshop (Galway)
- R. R. Knott
Bookseller (98 Hawthorne Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 0B1 Canada)
- Limes' Scandinavian
Marketplace for Books
- Le SLAM: Syndicat national de la
Librairie Ancienne et Moderne
- LIVRE-RARE-BOOK
(Pascal Chartier, Librairie du Bât d'Argent, 38 rue des Remparts
d'Ainay, 69002 Lyon, France)
- Ken Lopez, Bookseller
(Modern First Editions, Vietnam War Literature, Fiction & Poetry by
American Indians, Black Literature, Latin American Literature, Beats & the
Sixties)
- MFLIBRA (a source
for French antiquarian books)
- William & Nina Matheson
Books, Inc.
- The 19th Century Shop
- Oak Knoll (best source for
books on the book)
- Pandora (out-of-print science
fiction, fantasy, horror, and mysteries since 1973)
- Pennsylvania Used
Book Stores
- Philadelphia Rare Books &
Manuscripts
- The Poetry Center
& American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University (for
American poetry recordings)
- Powell's (Portland, OR)
- Quality Paperback Book Club
- Bernard Quaritch Ltd
- Deanna Ramsay, Bookseller
(Canadian antiquarian, used, and rare booksellers)
- Rare
Books Around the Net
- William Reese
Company
- Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books
- David
Strauss (The White House, Market Place, Folkingham, Sleaford,
Lincolnshire, UK NG34 0SE)
- Tall Tales
Fantasy and Science Fiction Bookseller
- Tudor Rose Books
(Perry, Florida -- English and American Literature; literary criticism)
- WordsWorth (30 Brattle
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138)
- Yankee Book Peddler, Inc.
- Yesterday's Gallery
(1920s-1930s American and British fiction)
- John T. Zubal, Inc.
- Individual Publishers
As they turn up and in alphabetical order, here are links to information
about their publications provided by individual trade and other publishers
of interest to Traister:
- Bantam Doubleday Dell
- Blackwell
Publishing
- Bloodaxe Books
- Broadview Press
- University of California
Press
- Cambridge University Press
- Canongate Books
- University of Chicago
Press
- Coffee House Press
- Copper Canyon Press
- Columbia University
Press
- Cornell University
Press
- Dalkey Archive
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Four Walls Eight Windows
Book Publishers
- Granta (magazine and book
publishing; related to New York Review
Books)
- Green Integer
- Harcourt Brace
- HarperCollins
- Harvard University Press
- Houghton Mifflin
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Liberty Fund, Inc.
- The MIT Press
- University of Nebraska Press
- New Directions
- The New Press
- New York Review Books
(related to Granta Books).
- W. W. Norton
- Oxford University Press:
- UK
- US
- Singapore
- Penguin:
- US
- UK
- Phanes Press (see also the closely
related site of David Fideler)
- Phaidon Press
- Pickering & Chatto
- Playmarket
Online (New Zealand playscripts)
- Princeton University
Press
- Random House
- Routledge
- Scala Publishers
- Serpent's Tail
- Simon and Schuster
- TELA/Scholars Press
(books, journals, and electronic publications in the areas of religion,
classics, and Mediterranean archaeology)
- Steerforth Press
- Turtle Point Press / Books & Co. /
Helen Marx Books
- Verso
- Virago Press
- White Wolf (a
Clarkston, GA, publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and
creator of the slowest, worst organized, least
readable, and least usable website Traister has ever
encountered . . . but which he needed to use anyway: a colossal
pain in the butt (and, as of February 1998, still a pain in the
butt, although somewhat faster in its response time)
- H. W. Wilson
- Yale University Press
- Laserdiscs and other formats
Theatrical or movie productions of literary works can now frequently
be found in tape or laserdisc format. The following few sites can be
useful in looking for such materials, although most of them seem to be
organized for the benefit of people who are not seeking the
latest film versions of, say, William Shakespeare.
- The Cinema
Laser ("a global directory of those retailers with sites on the world
wide web")
- The Criterion
Collection
- Festival
Films
- Ken Cranes Laserdisc
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