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FetchBook.Info - New & Used Books
Find the lowest price - Scan 72 book stores, 40,000 sellers, in a click.
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 AbeBooks (Advanced Book Exchange) 

Abebooks is by far the largest source available for out of print and used books (50 million titles). 
It networks together 12,000 bookstores, almost all of them small "Mom & Pop" operations.

 

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Used books, out-of-print books, rare books at Biblio

 Alibris 

Alibris are a San Francisco company with a database of over 40 million used books, manuscripts, maps, photos, prints, and autographs. FREE SHIPPING of in-stock books to USA addresses on orders over $49

by title by author

 

 Powells 

These guys boast a huge collection of out-of-print, rare, autographed and used books. Voted the top online bookstore by Yahoo in 2000, Forbes magazine 2001. They supply Amazon!



  • Spend more than $50 and get free shipping within North America
  • Read their collection of the latest book reviews from Salon.com, Esquire, The New Republic and The Atlantic Online
  • NEW! - recommend titles, and read what others have suggested - it's called Daily Dose

 



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 eBay 

eBay typically has 300,000 used books and magazines for sale at any one time. A smaller book-only auction site is at BooksbyBid

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 Some Tricks and Ideas 

  • If it isn't rare - Powells will have the cheapest copies 
  • Let SearchBiblio automatically meta-search for a particular book every day, to save you from having to do it.
  • Finished with a book? Set it free via BookCrossing
  • Use the Library of Congress database to find the ISBN and other details about out-of-print books. Or the new ISBNDB site
  • Look for a copy in archives or libraries
  • Not a complete set? - buy/sell/trade odd volumes from encyclopedias, dictionaries, author works etc at SetMaker


 AbeBooks (UK) 

AbeBooks UK is now believed to be one of the largest second-hand specialist book platforms in Europe, enabling site visitors to buy and sell second-hand and antiquarian books. In total there are currently over 5 million books on its German, French and English websites. AbeBooks UK homepage. You can also search AbeBook UK for books over at Previously Published.

 
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 Biblioz 

Search millions of out-of-print books using the BibliOZ Book Search wizard

I have no idea where they get their results from, but they have more used books than Alibris or AbeBooks, and that is saying something

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 GEMM 

Gemm have over 4,000 sellers - enter a title or author

 More Resources 

COLLECTING

SearchEngineZ Guide: How to Collect Books - tips on pricing and care

International Book Collectors Assoc - in depth collecting info

Trussel.com - wide variety of information

IOBA - glossary of terms


BuyUsed UK



NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES and COMICS

The Book Palace - Thousands of illustrated books on popular culture, fantasy art, film & TV, newspaper strips, comics & annuals, pin-up & glamour books, and graphic novels. They also have many pieces of original art and sculptures, original comics, and first editions

Back Issue Finder - locates and sells old newspapers, magazines and comic books, as well as a wide variety of ephemera (paper collectible) items such as programs, postcards, posters, trading cards and much, much more. Over 250,000 items listed.

Comic Book Resources - Lots of info, plus links to online and offline stores

Comics Price Guide

Tilley's Vintage Magazines - over 1 million items in stock

 


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