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This section of my web site is
aimed at bibliophiles, and attempts to address the problem that we all face: where can
I get a copy of that book?...
Babur
(Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur Padshah,
the founder of the Mughal dynasty of India) reading, from
SULEIMAN, HAMID. Miniatures of Babur-Nama
Tashkent, 1970. 155pp. 96 illus. in colour. Cloth
I am not concerned here with the
problem of finding currently available books, but only
with the problem of finding rare or secondhand books. I present some sites that I hope
will be of help to you.
 | Advanced Book Exchange A great
find in August 2000. This ABEBooks.com site - the central organisation for a few thousand
individual bookdealers - has a remarkably useful search facility, and I mention - by way
of example - that through it I found a rare (only 250 copies printed, on fine paper) 1939
edition of Annie Besant's An Autobiography (autographed by George
Arundale - husband of the renowned Indian classical dancer, Rukmini Devi - who wrote an extensive introduction to
the 1939 Madras edition).
By clicking here you may
search by country to see who is a member of the ABE.
Members of this exchange from whom I have obtained books, and whom I would like to
personally recommend include:
Naughtons Books, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin,
Ireland (a short cycle ride from where I live in Dublin)
Anthony C. Hall, Staines Road,
Twickenham, England
MonkeyBooks, Jacobstown, NJ,
U.S.A. 08562
Fortune Green Bookshop, 74 Fortune Green Road, London, United Kingdom NW6 1DS
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| The renowned Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London) have developed a
database
of rare and antiquarian books
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| Biblio.com have a
database of over 2000 bookdealers in 20 countries
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| Searchenginez has
a Second Hand
Book Search corner.
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| An excellent site for French books is http://www.lexlibris.com/
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| Antiquarian Booksellers'
Association of America
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| Antiquarian Booksellers'
Association (based in London)
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| International League of Antiquarian
Booksellers
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| International Book Collectors
Association
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| World Book
Dealers
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| bibliophile.net
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| BookFinder
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| Abracadabra Booksearch International
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| The Manuscript Society
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| bibliofind
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| antiqbook
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| Book Sales Finder
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| Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian
Booksellers
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| American Booksellers Association
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| Connecticut Antiquarian
Booksellers
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| Maine Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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| New Hampshire Antiquarian
Booksellers Association
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| Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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| Independent Online Booksellers Association
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| The Clique (Booktrade information for British booksellers, librarians, learned,<>
literary and historical societies, associations and their members
for over a century.<>)
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| Alta
Mathematica (rare Mathematics books)
If you know of any other useful sites not listed above then please let me know, giving me
details, and I may add your suggestion to the above. I am not, in general, interested in
individual bookdealers; I have so many of those in my Favourites, that it would not be
possible to list them all, and, in any event, most - though not all - are members of one
of the above groups. I make an exception with Tavistock
Books, which has a valuable Other Web Sites of Interest section (at the foot of its
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