Web Sites About Books

Below we have listed some of the better and more interesting web sites relating to books and book collecting. If you'd like to suggest others, please let us know.


Associations ||Awards || Book Arts

Book Collecting Resources ||History of Books & Printing

Libraries ||Reader Resources


Awards

Pulitzer Prize - American letters, including literature and non-fiction, poetry, & drama

National Book Awards - Exceptional books by American Authors.

PEN/Faulkner Awards - Juried peer award for best American fiction.

Man Booker Prize - British Commonwealth fiction.

Randolph Caldecott Medal - American picture books for children.

Newbery Medal - American literature for children.

Carnegie Medal - Children's book first published in the United Kingdom, or published in the UK within 3 mos. of its publication elsewhere.

Kate Greenaway Medal - Illustrated books for children first published in the United Kingdom, or published in the UK within 3 mos. of its publication elsewhere.

Edgar Awards - Mystery works, fiction and non-fiction, print or screen, adult and children.

Hugo Awards - Science Fiction, including novel, short story, novella, more.

Nebula Awards - Science Fiction, including novel, short story, novella, more.

Philip K. Dick Award - For original science fiction works in paperback published for the first time during the award year in the United States.

 

Associations

American Printing History Association

American Society for Bookplate Collectors & Designers

Antiquarian Booksellers Association (UK)

Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America

The Bibliographical Society (UK)

Bibliographical Society of America

Independent Online Bookseller's Association

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

 

Reader Resources

Civil War Book News

The Guardian Unlimited Book Page (UK)

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

The Medieval Review

Umberto Eco - Porto Ludovica

 

Book Collecting Resources

Glossary of Book Collecting Terms

Littera Scripta: Antiquarian, Used, and Rare Books on the Internet - A Reader's Guide

 

Book Arts

Colophon Page

The Center for Book Arts

Conservation On-line

L'Art du Livre Arabe (in French)

 

History of Books & Printing

Aspects of the Victorian Book

Book History Online : International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries

The History of Printing

IN AEDIBVS ALDI : The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press

 

Libraries

The British Library

Library of Congress

Bibliotheque Nationale (in French)

Bibliotheque Nationale (in English, still under construction)

Die Deutsche Bibliothek (in German)

Die Deutsche Bibliothek (in English)

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