From Book News, Inc.
Lists some 1,350 used book dealers, grouped by location and category, with detailed comments on each store's specialties, services, book quality, and other features. Includes a specialty index for locating dealers specializing in specific areas of interest. Also includes travel directions with local and regional maps. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Midwest Book Review
Over a thousand used book dealers are grouped by location and category, with references to specialties and easy travel directions rounding out the facts. The authors made personal visits to many stores: book comments are more candid than most, based on these visits.

Bookseller, August 9, 2000
Simply put, no book dealer or collector should travel without these guides.

Midwest Book Review, 4/00
"An invaluable take-along tote for any who consider a used bookstore visit an essential part of the trip."

The Spokesman-Review (2/00>
"Good news for all you wanderlust bibliophiles. There's help out there."

about.com
"Most helpful are the comments."

Library Journal, 12/00
"Provides useful information." Rated excellent for ease of use and indexes.

Book Description
A comprehensive guide to 1,500 used, out-of-print, rare and antiquarian book dealers in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Includes hundreds of dealers who do not sell online. Includes 22 city, regional and state maps showing locations with used bookstores. Replaces 1995 edition.

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 books can be used as travel guides to help you plan your book hunting trips or as desk references when you want to contact dealers by phone, mail or on-line. The guides give you all the information you need to find the books you're searching for, including: 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, dealer services, e-mail addresses and web sites, a comprehensive Specialty Index and valuable comments about the stores (based on the authors' actual visits) that help you decide if the store is likely to have the types of books you're interested in.

Excerpted from The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Pacific Coast States : California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii by David S. Siegel, Susan Siegel. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
A sample comment for a bookstore in California: If you're traveling in central California, we believe you'll find a visit to this shop one of the highlights of your book hunting experience. This is a Class A shop. The shop is large, the shelves meticulously organized and labeled, the books are in very good condition and the shop is spacious enough for you to browse comfortably and leisurely. We were most impressed and would be surprised if our readers did not come to a similar conclusion.

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.

SYNOPSIS

A user friendly guide to 1,500 used, rare, out-of-print and antiquarian book dealers in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Includes 24 city, regional and state maps. Replaces 1996 edition.

FROM THE CRITICS

Midwest Book Review

An essential guide for bibliophiles, specialty book dealers and vacationing readers who simply like to browse the bookstores.

Antiquarian Book Monthly

For serious readers who like to browse bookshops and appreciate good information on whether a particular bookstore is worth a detour for them.

Consumer Reports Travel Letter