#Book collecting

Find the events, places, shops and communities that make book collecting easier to enjoy.

Explore Book collecting

What’s worth knowing

Useful sources and dates, with the original publisher kept one click away.

Online shop

Online retail

Online onlySource listed

AbeBooks

Works with bookseller associations worldwide; its /associations page indexes them. Useful as a search layer, but a marketplace rather than a vetted body

⌖International

Society

Societies

In personSource listed

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

Umbrella organisation for national antiquarian bookseller associations. The ABA works closely with it. Offers scholarships including for the York Antiquarian Book Seminar

⌖32 countries

Society

Societies

Online onlySource listed

Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association

THE LARGEST BOOKSELLING ASSOCIATION of its kind. Celebrated 50 years of book fairs 1974-2024. Membership open to anyone trading in antiquarian and second-hand books for a minimum of two years, subject to criteria. A GBP 10 supporter subscription gives free…

⌖UK-wide - fairs across the country