On Line antiquarian books

The Advanced Book Exchange combines the inventories of over 12,500 independent booksellers from around the world.

This can be a speedy way of locating and buying a book if you fail to find it through the individual booksellers. You should bear in mind that if you are buying from a distant source there will be postage costs. Also that not all booksellers will take credit cards.

Owned and operated by a third-generation antiquarian, Bibliostopwas established for the astute collector and investor seeking to enrich their libraries with rare, author signed, first editions and first printings books.

We specialize in American and English authors from the turn of the 19th century, 20th and 21st century.

Bookfinder is another on-line network, based in Berkeley California. It deals in both new and antiquarian books.

Bookfinder has links with over 15,000 booksellers, and offers 'Over 40 million new, used, rare, and out of print books at your fingertips.'

Bibliofind is a further on-line network, which offers used and rare books periodicals and ephemera for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world.

Bibliofind has combined with Amazon.com. to provide more than ten million rare, used, and out-of-print books

Biblion is a smaller UK-based 'Bookshop of Bookshops', where '100 of the world's finest bookdealers present choice items from their stock'.

TomFolio The TomFolio Website is a cooperative of international professional dealers in used, out-of-print, and rare books, periodicals, and ephemera.

UKBookworld is a British based data-base provider with over 400 UK dealers.

See The Brazen Head web-site.

Henry Sotheran Ltd are the longest established antiquarian bookdealers in the world, founded in York in 1761. Their Literature department is keen to buy and sell Kipling material, from first editions and sets, to ephemera and autographs.

Their address is 2 Sackville Street, London W1; phone 020 7439 6151, or click on the logo to link direct to their web-site and search for books.

Verandah Books specialise in books on India, Central Asia, and mountaineering. They have a series of catalogues which they are happy to supply on request. They have an extensive stock and welcome enquiries about specific titles.

Their address is Stonegarth, The Avenue, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3AH; phone and fax 01935 815900, email to mail@verandahbooks.co.uk; or click on the logo above to link direct to their new web-site and search for books.

Derek Hayles Military Books - established in 1982 - specialises in Antiquarian, Out of Print, and selected new books dealing with the wars, campaigns, personalities, and logistics, of the British Army from earliest times to the present.

They have 7-8000 titles always in stock. Their address is 35 St Mark's Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 6DJ, England; phone 01628 639535 fax 01628 788377, email derekhaylesmilitarybooks@msn.com; or click on the logo to link direct to their web-site.

Please search or browse our inventory of hard to find, out of print, used, and rare books. We are always pleased to answer any questions you may have, or supply images of the books.

Just e-mail john.newland@btconnect.com or phone on (44)1242-261170.

On line
antiquarian books

Since they were written, thousands of copies of RK's works have been published, in many different editions, and there are many fine old copies in antiquarian bookshops. We are providing links to a growing selection of antiquarian bookshops and networks of bookshops which carry Kipling's works and books about him.

If you know of a bookshop or network you would like to recommend, please send us its contact details, including email and - if available - web-site address: