book dealers
Sellers of volumes
Book dealers are people or businesses that buy and sell books, typically as a trade rather than a hobby.
The term often implies dealing in used, rare, or antiquarian books rather than new retail sales: The book dealer specialized in first editions.
Book dealers may operate from shops, at fairs, or online.
- bookstoresRetail outlets for literature
- antiquarianScholar of old artifacts
- provenance recordsRecords tracking ownership history
- estate salesHousehold contents sold after death
- bibliographiesLists of sources used
valuation · secondhand · sourcing · specialty · appraisers · databases · authentication · auction houses · signed copies · out of print · online marketplaces · flea markets · price guides · cataloging · pricing · fair market value · foxing · trade shows
- book tradebookselling, publisher, bookshops, used bookstores, publishing house
- book fairbooths, stalls, vendors, authors, publishers
- book collectingbibliophiles, first editions, first edition, antiquarian, bookplates
- printing historyprinting press, Gutenberg, typographers, Gutenberg press, block printing
- book historybookbinding, colophon, edition, folio, frontispiece
- antiquesantiques, antique furniture, antique, antique coins, Greek vases
book dealerslibrarians
Collection curators at lending institutions
archivists · lending libraries · library systems · free libraries
book, books, booked, booking, bookish, booklet, booklets, bookseller, booksellers