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: : A question that slipped my mind when composing this Salon was: Where do you get your rug books? : : I assume you are all well-aware of the Big Three rug book dealers in the US - (alphabetically to spare egos) - : : Myrna Bloom : : Paul Kreiss : : Dennis Marquand : : They are available on-line at : : http://earth.oconnell.net/RugNotes/myrnabloom.htm : : http://members.aol.com/rugbkshop/ : : http://www.rugbooks.com/ : : Others I have found include : : Oxianna Books : : http://www.oxianna.demon.co.uk/ : : Loganberry Books : : http://www.logan.com/loganberry/rugcatalog.html : : HALI Rug Books (Sweden) : : http://www.hali-rugs-books.a.se/eng/nav.htm : : There are also several on-line out-of-print book data bases which have the inventories of thousands of book dealers available. (There was a time when these were a fabulous source of wildly underpriced rug books, but those days are apparently over; so I guess it's all right to tell you about them now that I've hoovered up all the good stuff.) : : Advanced Book Exchange : : http://www.abebooks.com : : Bibliofind : : http://www.bibliofind.com : : Bibliocity : : http://www.bibliocity.com : : There are others, but in my experience these are the best. (Don't be surprised if you find a zillion copies of Mumford, Hawley, and Dilley. Every book seller in the world seems to have a couple of each.) : : Finally, it's not a bad idea to check Amazon.com and/or barnesandnobel.com - but just for new books in wide distribution. Although both offer to "search" for out-of-print books on your behalf, what they really do is check with the out-of-print data bases I've posted above. If they find the book, their practice has been to mark it up significantly (100% - 300%) over what you could have bought it for had you done the searching yourself. : : -Jerry- : Dear Jerry, : A VERY helpful post. Thank you, Marvin

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