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The British Library
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Addison Wesley / Benjamin Cummings: Pearson Education
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Advanced Book Exchange — secondhand, rare & oop: dealers all over the world; also French and German language networks; main site and (below) British site
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Amazon.co.uk — books, music, video & DVD, computer software; see above for links to Amazon.com & Amazon.ca
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The American Language by H.L. Mencken (1921) — on-line book: fascinating and absorbing
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Antiqbook — Dutch-based antiquarian book site
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Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association — with book searching
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Simon Armitage on Bob Dylan in the Independent, 8/11/02
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Ars Libri Ltd. — Boston, USA: rare & scholarly books on the fine arts
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Artbook.com — US on-line retailer
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Artists’ Books / Johan Deumens — artists’ books, documents, limited editions, multiples, portfolios, reference books, new media, periodicals, prints
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ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
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Asian Rare Books — New York
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Ask a Librarian — research resource
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Association of American Publishers
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Association of Canadian Publishers
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Barefoot Books — children’s publisher
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Quentin Bell on writing biography — 10Mb film clip (v. slow by modem!)
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Between the Lines — interviews with poets
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Bible Gateway — compare 12 versions of the Bible, search for text or keywords: impressive
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Bibliomania — with the same aims as Project Gutenberg
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Birkhäuser — science & architecture publishers
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Blackwell’s on-line bookshop
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Blackwell Publishing
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Bloomsbury publishers
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The Bodleian Library, Oxford
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Bohemian Ink — underground literary review
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BOL — retailer: a vast range and discounts
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair
27 – 30 March, 2006
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The Man Booker Prize — official site
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Booker McConnell Prize pages — unofficial site (University of Tennessee) with winners and shortlists from 1969
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Bookfinder.com — US retailer, with some affiliated dealers in UK
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The Book Guide — listing of shops; calendar of fairs; guide to on-line databases – part of Inprint bookshop’s site
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The Bookpress — Williamsburg, USA: rare books on art &c.
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Bookworld (Svet Knihy) — association of Czech booksellers & publishers
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Bootleg Books — many on-line books of all kinds: excellent resource
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Boston Book Company — US: American & English literature and books from the Far East
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Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
28 – 30 October, 2005
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Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable on-line — on the Bootleg Books site (q.v.)
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Bradt Travel Guides
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Brill Academic Publishers
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Bryson Word Lists — links to word lists, including the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary; see also Kevin’s Word Lists
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Bucharest International Book Fair
1 – 5 June, 2005
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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest — if you’re looking for bad writing, look no further
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Robert Burns Country — official site, with everything
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California International Antiquarian Book Fair
17 – 19 February, 2006 — San Francisco
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Cambridge University Press
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Camden House (an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.)
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Karel Capek: resources library Karel Èapek
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Raymond Chandler: resources library
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Commonwealth Writers Prize
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CRC Press — technical & professional
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The Daily Telegraph books page
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Dance Books
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Dictionary.com
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Dictionaries (Langenberg site): law, computing, rhyming, crossword puzzle solver, clichés, Scrabble, quotations, thesaurus, anagram generators & pig Latin — amazing
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Dictionary: On-line plain text American English dictionary (OPTED)
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The DICT Development Group: On-line Dictionary Query — some very advanced functions but suffers from out-of-date definitions databases
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Your Dictionary — includes language dictionaries and thesaurus
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Dorling Kindersley — notable for their colourful Eyewitness travel guides
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Edward Pranger Oriental Art Books, Amsterdam
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T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land plus resources library
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Elsevier
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Exacuo — tends towards the metaphysical
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: resources library
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Frankfurt Book Fair
4 – 8 October, 2006
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Funky Dog Publishing — ‘dedicated to promoting and supporting a community of poets working entirely in electronic form’
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Glossaries — this page links to on-line glossaries: certainly to many, and allegedly to over 2000: marvellous
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Good Book Guide
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Göteborg International Book Fair
21 – 24 September, 2006
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Robert Graves Archive — life and work
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Guardian Books
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Helene Hanff & 84 Charing Cross Road: resources library
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Hanshan Tang Books, London — books from East Asia
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HarperCollins
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The Guardian Hay Festival
26 May – 4 June, 2006 — once just literature, now multi-media
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HMSO (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office)
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Hodder Headline
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Holocaust writing: In Memory of My Parents and the Six Million by Tamara Deuel — poem translated from the original Hebrew
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Hong Kong Book Fair
19 – 24 July, 2006
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HP Bookfinders — UK: specialises in locating oop & hard-to-find publications
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IDC Publishers
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The Independent books page
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Simon Ings — uninformative official site
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International Publishers Association — ‘represents the publishing industry world-wide through 78 national, regional and specialised publishers associations in 66 countries’
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Internet Theatre Bookshop — ‘virtually every play currently published in the English language’
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James Joyce: resources library
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Franz Kafka: resources library
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Kevin’s Word Lists Page — links to a good many word lists, including slang (British, north American, Australian), and to on-line dictionaries; see also Bryson
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Librairie Leonce Laget, Paris — western art & architecture
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London Book Fair (trade only), Excel, Docklands
5 – 7 March, 2006
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Macmillan
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Manchester University Press
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Thomas Mann: how a small Bohemian town saved a troubled Nobel Prize laureate — in the Prague Post
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Mare Magnum Liborum — rare & oop network: around 30 affiliated dealers in UK
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Ian McEwan — official site
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Ian McEwan: interview in Salon magazine, March 1998
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McGraw Hill
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Meta Critic — digest of criticism from many cources; not just movies
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Methuen
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MSN Books pages — a very American site, but always worth a visit
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Off the Shelf
15 – 29 October, 2005 — Sheffield’s literary fair
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Online Literature Library — on-line classics from Aesop to Wells
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George Orwell — very slick
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Oxford English Dictionary: OED Online — subscription service
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Oxford University Press
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New Society Publishers
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Paragon Book Gallery — US: Asian art & Asian studies
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Penguin
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Phaidon Press
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Plath On-line
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Poetry Daily — changing day-to-day: contemporary verse, biographies, interviews, on-line bookshop
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Poetry Library — substantial institution at the South Bank Centre, London, dedicated to modern British poetry
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The Poetry Society
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Powell’s Books, Portland, USA — new, used, oop, general, rare, art & architecture, author interviews
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Prague Writers’ Festival
4-8 June, 2005
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Princeton Book Company, New Jersey, USA — publish and distribute dance books and videos
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Project Gutenberg — getting the printed word into cyberspace
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Publishers Association
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Publishers’ Catalogues — worldwide index of web-sites & catalogues
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The Pulitzer Prizes
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Random House
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Read Print — books on-line
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Rough Guides
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Routledge
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Salman Rushdie — resources on the National University of Singapore web-site and (below) Salon interview
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The Malcolm Saville Society
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Jaroslav Seifert: poems and resources
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Michael Shamansky, Bookseller, New York — Italian fine art books
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Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective — an impressive site, including many original stories as text files
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Simon and Schuster, publishers
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W.H. Smith — books, music, video & DVD, games, stationery
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Zadie Smith: Bold Type feature
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Zadie Smith: Guardian interviews
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Sofia International Book Fair
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Springer
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Streets Online — on-line retailer
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Raymond M. Sutton Books, Williamsburg, USA — oop landscape architecture, gardening & natural history
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Tangled Web UK — crime, mystery & fantasy; wear dark glasses
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Doug Tanoury: web poet
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Taschen publishers — books on art, architecture, design, photography & savoir vivre
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Taylor & Francis Group
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Thames & Hudson
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Time Out publishing — magazines & travel guides
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The Times books page
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Tokyo International Book Fair
6-9 July, 2006
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Turin Book Fair
4-8 May, 2006
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Waterstone’s — now swallowed up by Amazon
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Evelyn Waugh: the best and the worst — review in The Atlantic
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Irvine Welsh — unofficial site (top) and official site
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Oscar Wilde — official site
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Oscariana — the life and times of Oscar Wilde: wonderful
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UK Book World — searching for old and oop books for sale
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Wiley
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Charles B. Wood III: Antiquarian Bookseller, Cambridge, USA — the Arts, architecture, photography, MSS
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Virginia Woolf: life, work & links
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Word Origins
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Worldwide Books, New York — exhibition catalogues & other books on art
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World Wide Words — ‘investigating international English from a British viewpoint’
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Writers Write — professional resource for writers, including on-line magazine
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WWW Virtual Library
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York Bookfair
23 – 24 September, 2005 — York racecourse; ‘Europe’s largest rare & oop book fair’
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Zagreb Book Fair
8 – 12 November, 2005
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