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Book collecting

Children’s books: general

Girls’ school stories

Other collectible British writers

North American girls’ series books

Copyright libraries

Publishers

Second-hand bookshops and dealers

This page is very much under construction! These links are just the beginning – please mail Sue if you have a page you’d like linked, or if you find something while browsing which you think should be here. Apologies, too, that it’s very Britocentric: again, you can correct this by sending us more links.

 

Book collecting

Wikipedia: Book Collecting

Robert Lucas: The Essentials of Book Collecting

Book Think: articles on book collecting and bookselling.

Empty Mirror Books (useful material on terminology and identifying first editions)

The Book Guide - excellent links

Old Book News: more good links and software

 

Children’s books: general

Collecting Books and Magazines (the one-stop site with links to more or less everything)

Eleanor's Books (very good links to modern children's book sites, more US than elsewhere )

The Children's Literature web guide (another useful site, Canadian, with masses of links)

Fantastic Fiction (not always reliable, but does provide a basic list of books for an awful lot of authors. Use the BL or Bodley websites for more trustworthy, though harder to follow, bibliographies)

 

Girls’ school stories

Girls' Own: the website for everyone interested in girls' bookst

The Big Four

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

Friends of the Chalet School

The New Chalet School

The Chaletian Bulletin Board

Dorita Fairlie Bruce

Eva Löfgren's site: information about Serendipity as well as biographical material

Antonia Forest

Katherine Ferguson's website.

Sorry, no AFsociety or magazine yet. If you'd like to start one... For any information not on this website,contact Sue (AF's literary executor)

Elsie Jeanette Oxenham

The Abbey Chronicle

 

Other collectible British writers

Enid Blyton

The Enid Blyton Society

An Unofficial Enid Blyton site

Monica Edwards

John Allsup's page

From the Punchbowl: website and details of magazine

Lorna Hill (would someone like to set up a site devoted to her)?

Cumberland News: feature article

Violet Needham

Violet Needham Society

Malcolm Saville

The Malcolm Saville Society

Malcolm Saville Centenary Website

Noel Streatfeild

Harriet Jordan's site (again, no magazine)

 

North American girls’ series books

Girls' series books: checklist

19th-century girls' series fiction

The Betsy-Tacy Society (Maud Hart Lovelace)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (not a Montgomery website as such, but lists all relevant sites)

 

Copyright libraries

Bodleian Library catalogue

British Library cataloue

National Library of Scotland

Cambridge University Library

Trinity College, Dublin

Library of Congress

National Library of Australia

National Library of Canada

 

Publishers (reprints and new titles)

Bettany Press

Fidra Books

Girls Gone By Publishing

 

Second-hand bookshops and dealers specialising in children’s books and/or girls’ books

Badger Books

Gill Bilski

Bowbridge Publishing

The Children's Bookshop (Hay-on-Wye)

Sarah Key (The Haunted Bookshop)

Kidz Books

Ripping Yarns (Highgate, London)

David Schutte

Stella Books (Tintern) and Rose's Books (Hay-on-Wye) Topsy-Turvy Books

It’s also worthwhile contacting these dealers, though they don’t yet have a web presence:

TP Children's Bookshop, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Tel 01943 830095:
tpbooks@btinternet.com

The Old Children's Bookshelf, 175 Canongate , Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Tel: 0131 558 3411 ShirleyOCB@aol.com

Also, of course…

ABE (Advanced Book Exchange)

Amazon/Bibliofind

eBay UK or eBay US (or any of the other national links)

 

 

 

 
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