Book Collecting

A tongue-in-cheek but informative guide for the aspiring book collector.

Here you'll find thousands of book sales, book fairs, book auctions, and other book events held throughout the USA and Canada. Just click on a state to get a calendar of events.

This web site provides a wealth of information for the book collector. Includes SetMaker - a free service to try to link up odd volumes with incomplete sets of reference books, collected works and other multi-volume editions - a kind of "Bureau of Missing Volumes".

Colophon Page is a home on the Internet for the community of collectors, dealers, creators and lovers of the fine publishing arts. Highly recommended for lovers of modern illustrated and fine press books.

A history and timeline of the development of English language translations of The Bible.

Firsts Magazine, the premier publication in the Book Collectors field, is a resource for book collecting, first editions, rare, antiquarian books.

An introduction to facsimile books, faithful recreations of the original. From Finn's Fine Books.

An index of web resources focusing on those of interest to scholars.

Contains a wealth of useful information, as well as a glossary of terms.

A database of author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, and maiden names. Over 11,000 entries.

This is the first full edition of "A Book Collector's Glossary." It is not complete, but is a work in progress, and a labor of love for those who collect books.