Book World/The Washington Post
"I've used them extensively and find them extremely useful. They tell you where the stores are, how to get there, and give you a rough idea of what you might find."


Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, Spring 2000
The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest is the cornerstone volume of any dashboard library.


New Choices, March, 1999
If you're one of those rabid bibliophiles who love to explore secondhand book stores, here's just what you need when next you hit the road.


American Booksellers Association
"The Book Hunter's Bible."


Martha's KidLit Newsletter, Jan/Feb, 1999
Book collectors and dealers will appreciate these guides very much with detailed information about dealers in particular areas.


Mythprint, 2/98
"Book collectors who travel will want to keep one of these - the Used Book Lover's Guides - in the car for handy reference. I rarely hunt for new books on trips, but used bookstores are very different from each other, and treasures may be found anywhere. Prior to getting this guide, my usual tool was the phone book: but that still leaves the job of finding the actual stores, hoping they'll be open, and discovering for oneself which stores are the jewels and which the clunkers. The Siegels have done all that--well, a lot of it--for you."


The Mining Company, 1/99
"David and Susan Siegel are entrepreneurs, authors, travelers, and book lovers -- a powerful combination that has produced a series of guides that no confirmed "bookaholic" will want to be without. In 1992, the couple set for themselves a goal of becoming "the Baedeker or Frommer of the used book world," and they've succeeded admirably."


Bookphilia Newsletter, 1/99
Have you ever gone on a vacation and thought about visiting the local bookstore of the area you are exploring, but don't feel like hunting down a local Yellow Pages to locate the book stores? It can be really frustrating when you visit a really large city and have to locate sometimes more than ten or twenty bookstores. Well David S. and Susan Siegel have come up with a wonderful solution to travelling book hounds everywhere in the USA. The name of the guide is The Used Book Lover's Guide and there are six different guides that the editors have put together based on six different geographical regions of the U.S.


Midwest Book Review, 12/98
The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest is the most up-to-date and comprehensive listing of book dealers in the ten state Midwest region..(The book) is an essential guide for bibliophiles, specialty book dealers, and vacationing readers who simply like to browse the bookstores.


Herald & Review 10/98
Lovers of used books have a new friend. It's the expanded edition of The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest, out this month...The guide's listings contain lots of information, including store name, stock, specialties, hours and travel directions.


BookLovers, 11/98
For all of our readers who love book hunting, or for those who love used bookstores, there is a publication available which you all will undoubtedly take great interest in. It is called The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest, and inside you will find a wealth of information!


Book Description
A user friendly guide to over 1,300 used, rare, out-of-print and antiquarian book dealers in the 10 state Midwest region, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia. Includes 32 city, regional and state maps.


From the Publisher
The Used Book Lover's Guides are designed to assist book lovers save time and money while searching for used, out-of-print and antiquarian books. The guides can be used as travel guides to help you plan your book hunting trips (or to locate bookstores in the areas you'll be traveling to) or as desk references when you want to contact used book dealers by phone, mail or on-line. The guides give you all the information you need to identify dealers who are likely to carry the types of books you're looking for: a detailed description of the dealer's stock, including specialties and the approximate size of the collection, store hours, easy to follow travel directions, city, regional and state maps that highlight clusters of bookstores located near each other, dealer services, e-mail addresses and web sites, a comprehensive Specialty Index and valuable comments about stores (based on the authors' actual visits) that help you decide which bookstores are most likely to have the types of books you're interested in.


Excerpted from The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest : Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia by David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel. Copyright © 1998. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
A sample comment about a shop in Gray Summit, MO: A real find and a most appropriate name for a shop that displays its collection on three floors of a former residence. The shop offers an assortment of books ranging from paperbacks in all subject areas to hard-to-find and occasionally rare collectibles, also in all subject areas. Prices are quite reasonable, particularly if you know your field. Where else could you shop for books and find rest rooms on all three levels plus plush carpeting on the first and second levels? In our view, well worth a visit. The owner operates a second shop in St. Louis.