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Powells.com for out-of-print / hard-to-get books (USA, will mail overseas).
日本の古本屋 lets you search for 2nd-hand books in Japan (Delivery within Japan only, however)
ABE (Advanced Book Exchange) - browse for out-of-print / hard-to-get books (US).
Google Book Search
Most online bookstores have browsable catalogues.
Fantastic Fiction has compiled bibliographies of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy authors, including obscurities like Neil R. Jones who do not appear in other catalogues

Out Of Control by Kevin Kelly -- a marvellous tour of emergent behaviour in complex systems, artificial life etc.
The Adventure of the Field Theorems by science-fiction writer Vonda N. McIntyre
An English translation of Frank Zolf's Autobiography On Foreign Soil
Project Guttenberg is a large collection of classic books on-line, but it sadly lacks Ben Franklin's more unorthodox essays.
Read Richard Darsie's Tales of Wonder - a collection of Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
"Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." - Isaiah 5:10. And you can't argue with that. Searchable copies and concordances of the Bible

Amazon books (Text-only search) - USA with international delivery
Cokahama Books - Australia, will mail books overseas
Abbeys Bookstore, 131 York St, Sydney (Opposite the Queen Victoria Building). (02) 9264-3111. Includes the indispensible Language Book Centre
China Books Shop F7, Level 1 Citymark Building, 683 George Street (below Marigold Restaurant) (02) 9280 1885
The ABC Shop carries many books & other material associated with Australian culture.
Kinokuniya Books - Shop RP2.02, The Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street, Sydney
Collins Bookstores
Co-op bookshops - Australia
Dymocks - Australia. Online Catalog
Blackwell's bookstores - UK
See the origami page for specialist paper-folding bookstores.

Hell's Bibliophiles has lots of links to reading material to challenge your thinking

What Fred Has Been Reading Lately

Currently reading:

Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word
Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh, Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics
Robert and Brenda Vale, Time to Eat the Dog?

Recently finished:

Feb 2010 - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials series: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Feb 2010 - Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife series: Vol 4 - Horizon
Jan 2010 - Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife series: Vol 1 - Beguilement, Vol 2 - Legacy, Vol 3 - Passage
Jan 2010 - Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff
Dec 2009 - Alan Coren, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks
Oct 2009 - Iain McCalman, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro [quotes]
Aug 2009 - Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background [quotes]
Aug 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones [quotes]
Aug 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, The World According to Bertie [quotes]
Jul 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland [quotes]
Jul 2009 - Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Jul 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, Espresso Tales [quotes]
Jul 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, 44 Scotland Street [quotes]
May 2009 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Muscal Invective (2nd Edn.)
Apr 2009 - Greg Egan, Incandescence
Apr 2009 - Idan Ben-Barak, Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World
Mar 2009 - Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [quotes]
Mar 2009 - Lee Smolin, The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next

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