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Books and Book Collecting
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Searchable Booksites

Numerous book pages now include searchable forms.
Here I've included author / title "short forms" for
new and used books stores and multi-dealer services.
Click on their logo to go to their homepage.
Click on the name to go to their full forms.

If your browser supports JavaScript, you can input your
search criteria to (almost) all the forms simultaneously here:

LAST NAME: 
FIRST NAME: 
TITLE: 
KEYWORD: 
 

ABAA   ABE
ABookSearch.com   AddALL
Alibris   Amazon Books
Barnes & Noble   Biblio.com
Biblio Direct   Bibliology
bibliophile.net   Biblioroom
Book Avenue   BookCellar.com
BookFinder.com   ChooseBooks.com
fatbrain.com   FetchBook.Info
Galaxidion   Gutenberg Holdings
ILAB-LILA   Pandora's Books
Powell's Books   SearchBiblio.Com
TomFolio.Com   Used Book Central
UsedBookSearch   wantedbooks.com

More Search Forms

Out-of-Print Book Search Services

New, In-Print Books

Amazon Logo Amazon.Com "Earth's Biggest Bookstore."
Author or Title or Keywords:

UK   Germany   France   Japan

B&N LogoBarnes & Noble "World's Largest Bookseller Online"
Author:
Title:
Keyword:

Computer Literacy Logofatbrain.com "an online bookstore solely focused on technical and computing-related titles."
Author:
Title:
Key Words:

Used, Rare, Out-of-Print books

ABE LogoABE: Advanced Book Exchange, "Access the bookshelves of thousands of used, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print booksellers around the world. With over 10,000 independent sellers and 40 million books in our network, shopping for hard-to-find books just got easier."

Author:
Title:
keyword:
(NOT publisher / city: e.g. "1st", "proof", etc.)

AddALL

Looking for a book? Want a deal? No problem AddALL! Search and Compare at 41 Bookstores!
Author:
Title:
Keyword:

Bookfinder.comAnirvan Chatterjee's BookFinder.com. "The ultimate resource for book shoppers! Over 40 million new, used, rare, and out of print books at your fingertips..."
Author: 
Title: 

"Welcome to the world of out-of-print, used, and rare books. Find and BUY the BOOKS you've been looking for right here. Alibris GUARANTEES every book we ship."
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

Bibliology   "The on-line book fair"
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

FetchBook.Info, New & used books - Find the lowest price - Compare 72 book stores, 40,000 sellers, in a click.

Title, Author or ISBN:

Used Book Central, "a site to put Bookseller and Buyer together."
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

Biblio Direct, "Quality books from quality dealers!"
[problem with this form? Go to BiblioDirect.]
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

ChooseBooks.com - Hundreds of Independent Booksellers from around the world...
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

Biblioroom, in English, French or Dutch.
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

SearchBiblio.com, "the web's fastest search and price comparison engine for used, rare, out-of-print, and new books."
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

UsedBookSearch, "Search 45 million used books worldwide"
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

Bookavenue.com, "5 million books from over 800 booksellers worldwide. Buy direct and save, no mark-up. Great books at fair prices."
Author:  
Title:  

A.B.A.A.
Author:
Title:

ILAB-LILA International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

TomFolio.Com, a website for buying and selling used, rare and collectible books, ephemera, and periodicals, jointly owned by independent member booksellers.
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

biblio.com, "buy and sell quality books / used — rare — out-of-print — hard-to-find / from independent booksellers worldwide"
Author:
Title:
Keywords:

wantedbooks.com, "For people who care about books..."
Author   Title   Any Words

[Input author's name in any order - don't use a comma]

We bring together book buyers and booksellers — dealers, publishers and private presses — and provide interesting links with other book-related sites. With bibliophile.net, there are no price markups — you buy directly from the bookseller.
Author:
Title:
Keyword:

ABookSearch.com ABookSearch.com Out of print, old and rare books - order directly from the bookseller. No middle men.
Author:
Title:

TheBookCellar.com TheBookCellar.com online retailers of New, Used, Out of Print and Rare books.
Author:
Title:

Non-English-language...

Galaxidion - "Le marché du livre ancien ou épuisé."
Author:
Title:

By Request...

Although these dealers may have listings on the multi-lists, there have been requests to have the direct forms back up on line...

Powell's Logo
 Powell's Books - "over a million new and used books in stock" (can use the wildcard "*")
Any Words:

Gutenberg Holdings Logo


 Gutenberg Holdings, Internet sellers of used, out-of-print and rare books; over 100,000 books in stock, in many subjects and languages.

Author:
Title:
Subject:

Pandora's Logo

Pandora's Books, for (mostly paperback) mysteries, sci-fi and the like, (70,000 titles). Has a searchable database by title, author, etc.

Author:
Title:

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If you haven't found it yet...

Foreign Language Book Sources

Out-of-Print Book Search Services
Companies offering to look for books, often for a fee...

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