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Book collecting

Children’s books: general

Girls’ school stories

Other collectible British writers

North American girls’ series books

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)