COLLECTING BOOKS and MAGAZINES LINKS
SERVING COLLECTORS for over a decade; SINCE 29th JULY, 1997.
Links checked; thus noted OK 7.08. Page updated 3rd November, 2010.

 
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Just ONE page on the Collecting Books and Magazines web site based in Australia.

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Links appear under the following headings:
Children's Books and Comics - General
Children's Books-British
W E Johns
Enid Blyton
Children's Books-Australian
Children's Books-US and Canadian
Children's Series-US
Books-General including SF (adult & juvenile) and Mystery
Booksellers and Booksearch sites ***
Other including online AUCTIONS

Consumer Links
URBAN LEGENDS Reference Pages Use this site to check for scams. OK 2.08
NOTGOODENOUGH.ORG is the website that gets consumer voices heard. OK 3.08
See John's home page for other useful links.

Books and Comics - General (now in order)
AMICUS. Canadian National Catalogue. Canada: Library and Archives Canada. OK 7.08
Book Collectors' Society of Australia
OK 8.10
BRITISH COMICs and STORY PAPERS
and a whole lot more. OK 7.08
BUZZ WORDS An online monthly magazine, Buzz Words features interviews with editors, authors, illustrators, agents, booksellers and publicists as well as writing markets, opportunities, competitions, courses, conferences, book reviews and information all related to the children's book industry. If you wish to receive a sample copy, go to www.buzzwordsmagazine.com OK 7.08
Christian Children's Resources OK 7.08
Children's Literature research collection - State Library of Victoria  OK 7.08
Children's Literature Ring - OK 7.08
CHILDREN'S PRESS and Seagull editions site taking shape OK 2.08
COMICS Marvel Forums Comics Marvel Forums and community resources! OK 9.08
Eagle Comic and Dan Dare OK 2.08
Frank Bellamy, graphic artist and EAGLE illustrator, among other subjects OK 5.08
Gateway Children's Stories - stories for children, classic and original, plus feature articles. OK 2.08
Green's Guide to Collecting TV, Music and Comic Book Annuals Whatever you want to sell or find, why not place a FREE CLASSIFIEDS on our Classifieds Section.- popup OK 7.08
Hey Kids Comix OK 7.08
Kids Collecting including many book & toy collecting sites OK 7.08
LOOK and LEARN reborn OK 7.08
Nineteenth-Century American Children's Book Trade Directory OK 7.08
Roy of the Rovers - comics, annuals and football OK 7.08
SCHOOL STORIES - new site OK 7.08
SEAGULL editions site taking shape OK 7.08
Seussville - Dr Seuss OK 7.08 
Tell me More! Information about Children's Authors & Illustrators, and their Books OK 7.08
Writers Corner OK 7.08

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Childrens Books and Story Papers - British
Richard ARMSTRONG OK 7.08
Bettany Press OK 7.08
Lewis CARROL Home page  OK 7.08
The New CHALET Club: for all lovers of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's books OK 7.08
CHALET School Conferences OK 7.08
The World of the CHALET School OK 7.08
CHATTERBOX, both annuals and story papers OK 7.08
Cherry Ames British Editions OK 7.08
CHILDREN'S Annuals The best site for covers of children's annuals. OK 7.08
Christian Children's Resources OK 7.08
Swedish Richmal CROMPTON site OK 7.08
Monica EDWARDS site OK 7.08
Critics of GIRLS' School Stories OK 7.08
Mary Moffat's "HISTORICAL Fiction for Children" OK 7.08
The History of GIRLS' School Stories OK 7.08
Henry Giles KINGSTON (1814-1880) OK 7.08
Official LADYBIRD site OK 7.08
C S LEWIS - Into the wardrobe OK 7.08
MICHAEL'S REVIEWS OK 7.08
Northern Old Boys Club (Boys story papers) OK 7.08
PIRATES OK 7.08
Beatrix POTTER - The Peter Rabbit home page OK 7.08
Arthur RANSOME OK 7.08
Diana ROSS - 'The Little Red Engine' OK 7.08
Constance SAVERY Classic children's author site OK 7.10

The Malcolm SAVILLE Society
OK 7.08
Women fans of Girls' SCHOOL Stories OK 7.08
SCHOOL STORIES - OK 7.08
Sexton Blake OK 7.08
NOEL STREATFEILD site OK 7.08
R. L. STEVENSON Treasure Island OK 7.08
Thomas the Tank engine  This page will 'lock' you in a loop. OK 7.08
TOBY TWIRL OK 7.08
WILLIAM the Immortal David Schutte OK 7.08

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W. E. Johns
Biggles BIBLIOGRAPHY Guide to all editions; slow to load due to size OK 7.08
International Biggles Home page OK 7.08
W E Johns and Biggles Our main page with links to many other pages. OK 7.08

Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton Secret Seven OK 7.08

Australian and New Zealand
Bonza School Days - Australian school stories OK 7.08
Footrot Flats The famous NZ comic strip OK 7.08

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Childrens Books-US/Canada
Louisa May ALCOTT OK 7.08
AMERICAN School fiction Try this page though subject is America: 1950s OK 7.08
Judy BLUME OK 7.08
BRAINS Benton OK 7.08
Edgar Rice BURROUGHS A HUGE site with countless pages of scans. OK 7.08
Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources OK 7.08
Golden Book Official Site slow to load OK 7.08
Madeleine L'ENGLE, woman of many hats OK 7.08
Wizard of OZ OK 7.08

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Children's Series - USA
Bobbsey Twins OK 7.08
Cherry Ames OK 7.08
Nancy Drew http://www.nancydrew.com OK 7.08
Hardy Boys http://www.hardyboysonline.net OK 11.09
Bomba the Jungle Boy OK 7.08
Twins Series - Lucy Fitch Perkins OK 7.08
The Series Bookcase OK 7.08
The Judy Bolton Home Page OK 7.08
Girls Series Book Collectors OK 7.08
Vicki Barr OK 7.08

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Books, including SF and Mystery
Andromeda Spaceways Australia's Pulpiest SF Magazine! OK 7.08
Jane AUSTEN OK 7.08
AVIATION Book Shop, Tunbridge Wells OK 7.08
The Literature of
Stan BARSTOW Excellent author site. OK 7.08
M. C. BEATON (Hamish Macbeth series) OK 7.08
BIBLIO MYSTERIES A great site OK 7.08
Edwy Searles BROOKS OK 7.08
Bugarup University Students' Guild (Discworld) OK 7.08
A. Bertram CHANDLER Australian SF author OK 7.08
Agatha CHRISTIE OK 7.08
Bernard COHEN OK 7.08
CRAZY ABOUT MAGAZINES Back issues in the UK OK 9.08
Madeleine L'ENGLE OK 7.08
FANDOM DIRECTORY  For all SF, fantasy and collectables fans OK 7.08
GALACTIC CENTRAL SF and fantasy bibliographies, fanzines, etc. OK 1.09
Gateway Monthly - classic and original serialised and short stories in pulp fiction genres SITE ADDRESS CHANGED TO ?
Zane GREY. This page takes a while to load. OK 7.08
Georgette HEYER Homepage OK 7.08
Sherlock HOLMES OK 7.08
Hank JANSON Steve's site on the famous mystery author OK 3.06 MOVED?
LIBRARY Thing site List your own book library online; first 200 books free OK 7.08
The LOST CLUB JOURNAL Great site more early popular author OK 7.08
MYSTERY BOOKS SET IN BOOKSHOPS OK 7.08
Andre NORTON OK 7.08
OLD BOOKS and AUTHORS Another great site OK 7.08
PAN PABERBACKS great site! OK 7.08
ROBIN Hood biblio guide OK 7.08
Ruth PARK OK 7.08
Tamora PIERCE 7.08
The Discworld Books of Terry PRATCHETT: L-Space.
See Bugarup above!
James SCHMITZ extracts OK 7.08
SF SEARCH ENGINE This site will lock you in, be warned! OK 7.08
GENE STRATTON-PORTER OK 3.06
The Mary WEBB Society OK 7.08
John WYNDHAM The great SF author OK 7.08

Please send us new links or advise of problems with the old ones.

Booksellers and Booksearch sites

We give a basic link here; if you want something more, you'll have to PAY for an entry in the Bookmart section. Ads are available on certain pages; ask for a yearly quote.

ABookCoOp aka TomFolio.com This is the web presence of ABookCoOp, the international cooperative of independent on-line booksellers (of which there are about 150 members). The co-op was formed and developed so that booksellers could manage their own affairs. OK 3.06
ADDALL searches on ABE and others. Recommended by CB&M visitors. OK 3.06
Advanced Book Exchange is a current recommendation OK 3.06
Alibris which has taken over Bibliocity OK 3.06
AntiqueBook European search site OK 3.06
Antique Book Values - Fadedgiant Rare Book Value Guide. An excellent place to start your search with many useful links as well OK 3.06
Appleby Books General Stock but specialty is Children's Books.(Canada) OK 3.06
Australian Bookshop Directory is a directory is a information about Australian bookshops. OK 3.06
AUSTRALIAN CELEBRITY MAGAZINES Site listing hundreds of Aussie celebrity, movie and TV magazines OK 408
AV Books, UK OK 6.07
Biblio.com Dealer website that currently lists more than 12 million titles from 2100 plus dealers in 20 countries. OK 3.06
BIKWIL Australian multi-stream fanzine with articles on a variety of interesting subjects. OK 7.08
Blue Mountains New and Pre-loved Books, Katoomba OK 3.06
BookAvenue Has a quick text-only search page. OK 3.06
Bookfairs and related festivals USA OK 3.06
Book Fetch FetchBook.Info, a free service, allowing you to easily compare prices of any book among 70 bookstores in the US and Canada OK 3.06
Bookfinder searches all major booksearch sites and displays all search results on the one page. Use this for best results but sometimes slow to load! OK 3.06
Books and BookCollecting - Dozens of search facilities for books of all sorts but slow to load with 'frames'. OK 3.06
Bookshops.com.au Australian booksellers OK 6.06
Books
Quaint and Quirky A range of quaint and quirky books with some childrens' books. (UK) OK 3.06
BOOKS, Secondhand Cheryl Fletcher, Perth, WA bookseller, esp juvenile OK 4.09
Book-selling scuttlebutt Use the free day pass. OK 3.06
BORDER BOOKSHOP We're a leading seller of British comics (pre- 1965), based in Todmorden UK. Est 1980. The ideal website for comic enthusiasts and collectors. OK 12.06
BSP Gallery Bookshop Australia OK 3.06
Canberra region secondhand bookshops, publishers and other useful links compiled by the National Library. OK 3.06
ChooseBooks Has Australian book sellers and offers more extras than any other site OK 3.06
CLIQUE - A site full of useful information. Aimed at booksellers but great for collectors OK 3.06

CRICKET BOOKS - Ken Piesse and his cricket books, Melbourne OK 3.06
Dromana Books, Australia, rare and out of print titles OK 3.06
Front Row Magazine; secondhand Books-Specialising in Biggles, Transport, Movie & TV tie ins, Observers books OK 3.06
Graham Stone Specialising in Secondhand Science Fiction - Graham is not online and is soon retiring from book-selling, now disposing of his own collection- e-mail the page editor. OK 6.05
Happy Hours Books  specialising in boys books of yesteryear with good information on book maintenance. Darrell has sadly passed away but the business is still running. OK 3.06
Independent Booksellers Network UK OK 3.06
Kidzbooks A collector, searcher and seller of children's books, based in the UK. OK 3.06
Macduff Dave's Books Children's Books, Comics and Football Programmes OK 7.09
Noosa Antiques books OK 3.06
Old Papers OK 3.06
OZTION The Australian online auction site OK 307
Phantom Friends children's books for sale OK 3.06
Pioneer Books
http://www.pioneerbooks.com.au OK 3.06
PULP BOOKS, Newtown, NSW, Australia OK 3.06
Quaint and Quirky A range of quaint and quirky books with some childrens' books. (UK) OK 3.06
TomFolio Good seach page. OK 3.06
What I Collect Com, aka GoAntiques, the collectors' community OK 3.06
Yahoo Groups; online newsletters and lists covering all interests. OK 3.06

Please send us new links or advise of problems with the old ones.

Other including ONLINE AUCTIONS
Book Décor Antique Books, Home & Office Interior Decorating Ideas OK 9.08
Booksforever.com We offer the products and solutions for the storage and preservation of books and collectibles that booksellers provide.Refered to this similar site OK 3.06
Cecil Sharp House English Folk Dance Society OK 2.06
Celestial Cobbler Hand-crafted fantasy goodies OK 2.06
Choice Australian consumers' magazine OK 2.06
Crafty BOXFRAMES Dioramas and 3D Art as seen as NSW Doll Fair. OK 2.06
The Australian eBay auction site OK 2.06
To enhance your eBay experience, see also
http://www.geeewhiz.com/blacklist.html
and
http://www.toolhaus.org/ and http://www.thebaysidediner.com/ and
http://www.goofbay.com and http://www.tamebay.com/ and http://auctiontrax.com/sellerratings/dsrcalc.html and http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/ OK 9.08
Eswap Australian swap and sale auction site OK 10.07
Far 'N Away Collectibles - Collectible toys, comics, art, books, plates, magazines, cards and more available for sale. Plus advertise your collectables for free. OK 2.06
FIND http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/ Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without OK 6.08
GOOGLE is John's recommended general search engine. OK 2.06
Historical Directories A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales from 1750 to 1919.
House of Musical Traditions OK 2.06
LIBRARY THING! OK 3.08
Magazine Back Issues If you collect magazine back issues, or other periodic publications, or just enjoy  reading them, this is the site for you. Here you will find a vast selection of a variety of magazines and journals, and you can find many good deals. OK 11.10
Mainly Morris Dancing OK 2.06
ONE & TEN Non-commercial online auction site for students to swap textbooks and other books. OK 2.06
PAYPAL - Another way of buying/selling overseas. OK 2.06
Robin Hood OK 2.06
ROOTSWEB The family history site OK 2.06
SF and FANTASY search engine popup OK 2.06
SIGNATURES some samples on Krueger Books OK 2.06

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Elsie J. OXENHAM and the ABBEY GIRLS series, at Barbara's EJO site.
MOVIE and TV PAGES INDEX - with DVD Reviews
BOOK FAIRS and other EVENTS
BOOK-RELATED WORTHY CAUSES
SPI - Steve's STORY PAPER INDEX (Updated 6.08) OFFSITE LINK
BONZA SCHOOLDAYS - Australian School Stories OFFSITE LINK
OLD BOYS' PAPERS, BLOODS and PENNY DREADFULS OFFSITE LINK
Justin's 'Collectors Miscellany' Extracts OFFSITE LINK
Australian Juvenile Chronological PUBLISHING DATES OFFSITE LINK
 
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