...but before you try one of the major databases, check out:
Online
Booksellers Direct
A site listing those UK booksellers who are pleased to accept orders
direct from customers rather than through one of the large corporate
bookselling sites, a buying process which will often be of benefit to
the buyer as, without the overheads of the 'large corporate site' to
cover, the seller may be able to offer books at a lower
price.
An engine that searches multiple used book databases and which is 'a
book search and price comparison website for book lovers around the
world'.
The original multiple database search engine, once called MXBookFinder,
developed by Anirvan Chatterjee and now owned by a susidiary of
ABEbooks, it combines the first 20 or so hits from searches of multiple
databases of both new and/or used books.
Provided, resourced and owned by
Independent Booksellers' Network Limited,
UK booksellers themselves
W. H. Smith's on-line bookshop of books in
print,
searchable by author, title, ISBN, publisher and series.
Collected, scholarly and out-of-print books currently
offered for sale by British booksellers and private
owners including libraries and other institutional bodies.
The major database offering some 100 million new and used
books from
over 13,000 booksellers worldwide. Apparently the same as the .com
site but with an option to present all the UK booksellers
first
The major database offering some 100 million new and
used books from over 13,000 booksellers worldwide
 
60 million new, second-hand
out-of-print
and rare books.
Everyone knows amazon!
A multilingual Netherlands based database
in English, French, German
and Dutch with over 3.5 million antiquarian and
out-of-print
books, maps and prints
A North Carolina based site offering 50 million used
books, textbooks, rare books and out-of-print books
A multilingual database, based in Switzerland,
of over 3 million collectable and out-of-print books
Out of print and collectable books with 20 million items
available online from bookdealers all over the globe
A French language site of new and used books
US based site now incorporating the German based ZVAB
A straightforward no frills search database of
multiple dealers with a 'wants' recording facility.
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