Independent Bookseller's Starter Pack
A starter pack for independent booksellers and book collectors, or anyone interested in rare, used, and collectible books. This starter pack provides access to fellow booksellers, institutions, relevant feeds, book historians, library accounts, and more.
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@matthewkollmer.com
@drgregorymorgan.bsky.social
Historian and philosopher of science, especially virology. New Zealand-American. Lover of antiquarian books, and verge pocket watches. Author of Cancer Virus Hunters (JHU Press, 2022) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RRkkWaYAAAAJ
@ravenbooks.bsky.social
Bookshop 34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231 Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indy publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal. Based in West Dorset www.littletoller.co.uk Instagram / @littletollerbooks
@portersqbooks.bsky.social
Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
@pfbvan.bsky.social
YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2025 Living Wage employer.
@bakkaphoenix.bsky.social
Canada's oldest Speculative Fiction bookstore, founded in 1972. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com. We are located in Toronto, Ontario.
@nebrinkley.bsky.social
writer. award-winning bookseller. believer in nuance. bad rep for all communities i'm in. manager @ oblong books. 🌈🐉🌱
@lovessweetarrow.bsky.social
A romance-focused bookstore in the suburbs of Chicago (Tinley Park, IL). Selling HEAs like it’s our job since 2019. https://linktr.ee/LovesSweetArrow
@ebbooksellers.bsky.social
We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
@lighthousebks.bsky.social
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space. Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
@deadinkbookshop.bsky.social
An independent bookshop exclusively stocking independent publishers, based on Smithdown Road in Liverpool. https://linktr.ee/deadinkbookshop
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
@treehousebookshop.bsky.social
Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to the Kenilworth Centre, Help Musicians UK and Ellis Park Sumatra. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.
@fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013 Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995 www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
@ylbooks.bsky.social
In all our forms - bookshops in Gloucestershire, a festival or two, schools and libraries. Occasionally Hereward. Less often, Errol the dog.
@thebookshop.bsky.social
We are an indie bookshop selling new books for all ages, games, puzzles and stationary. Situated in the heart of Bridport, near to the jurassic coast.
@proud-geek.co.uk
A queer independent online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBT+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekstore elsewhere. https://www.proud-geek.co.uk/
@kingsbookstore.bsky.social
Order books online or shop in-person at Canada's hardest to find indie bookstore, co-operatively run in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring $5 flat rate shipping across Canada! www.linktr.ee/kingscoopbookstore
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for! We always want your trade ins!
@roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social
Your queer and trans owned feminist bookstore in Teejop. We ship everywhere in the US.
@leviathanbookstore.bsky.social
An indie bookstore in St. Louis, miniature but mighty, established in 2024.
@usedbookstore.bsky.social
golden bough bookstore, 371 cotton ave, downtown macon. they / them / y'all #blm #freepalestine
@321rare.bsky.social
Owner + Proprietor at 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, Princeton, NJ, USA. We offer a curated selection of used, rare and out of print books and printed materials across many subject areas to collectors, dealers and institutions. https://32.1rarebooks.
@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
Half Man, Half Bookshop. Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family. Not the inventor of the word "brainbow" https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
@shakespeareandcompany.com
Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
@bertsbooks.bsky.social
Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
@ssparks.bsky.social
“To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA
@jambookshopuk.bsky.social
Made UK's only regular #illustration reportage in @privateeyenews.bsky.social 2011-2020. Created @smallpressday.bsky.social in 2016 & Jam bookshop in 2022-2025. Also a freelance Editor-at-Large. Still draws stuff:
@bookshopghost.bsky.social
Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
@carpelibrum.bsky.social
Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Fan of small/indie publishers. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally doesn't DM people. https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
@gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social
Concord, NH. Indie Bookstore. Est. 1898. www.gibsonsbookstore.com
@quimbysbookstore.bsky.social
1854 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 quimbys.com Zines + Books + Comics + Tracts + Plenty https://linktr.ee/QuimbysBookstore
@jeffhirschbooks.bsky.social
Jeff and Susan Hirsch owners. We specialize in art, photography, architecture, literary first editions, poetry, drama, signed books and literary broadsides. We buy books and materials in these fields and will travel for large collections.
@matthewbudman.bsky.social
News junkie, editor, faculty spouse, author of “Book Collecting Now.”
@bigbeardedbookseller.com
a shambling lump of ennui with a beard, tattoos, and cat 📖 Reframing Women Printmakers 📖 How To Survive Camping 📚 91/52 http://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com https://www.instagram.com/big.bearded.bookseller
@bookslingerraquel.bsky.social
raquel, they/them, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇺-merican / mlis student / book recc collector
@dbderbzbooks.bsky.social
~ booksellers | watching films ~ David B Derbyshire & Julie Eyles #booksarebrilliant https://linktr.ee/dbderbzbooks
@mcnallyrobinson.com
Canada's largest, most eventful independent bookstore. https://linktr.ee/mcnallyrobinson
@robdmontoya.bsky.social
Breslauer Endowed Professor of Bibliography at UCLA | Director, California Rare Book School (CalRBS) | Book History, Libraries, Knowledge Organization | Fulbright
@book-historia.bsky.social
Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. She/they. Biblioshitposter.
@honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social
Rare books in Brooklyn, NY. Awarding the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize since 2017. Use books as bees use flowers. honeyandwaxbooks.com
@rarebooksleuth.bsky.social
The Rare Book Sleuth specializes in first editions, signed books and notable rarities across a variety of fields. IG: rarebooksleuth rarebooksleuth.com
@rebeccaromney.com
Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
@jcblibrary.bsky.social
@exmortisbooks.bsky.social
A rare and preloved haunted virtual bookshop filled with ghostly, weird and otherworldly books. www.exmortisbooks.com
@calrbs.bsky.social
California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community. More info: https://linktr.ee/calrbs
@condimentking.bsky.social
Pazzo Books; condiments and other enthusiasms at hilobrow.com. ABAA/ILAB. Rare food, old books. @pazzobooks elsewhere. he/him
@kristinaintin.bsky.social
Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|mega leftist anti-fascist|
@nelsonrarebooks.com
Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British literature, street literature, and Gothic Revival. Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed. It’s all sarcasm. Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA.
@wisdompedlars.bsky.social
Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003 BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time) #rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern #bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
@funkebooks.bsky.social
Rare books cared for, researched, and placed in good homes. I brake for bibliographies. See our website funkebooks.com for new arrivals.
@camdenlockbooks.bsky.social
Award winning rare book dealer/appraiser from 1979, webshop from 2000. Miniature book specialism miniaturebooks.com Co-owner bookshop burleyfisher.com
@colleenlovesbks.bsky.social
Champion of the obscure, Hobbit-like tendencies, Rare Books Librarian at UKL.
@guywiththebooks.bsky.social
Toronto based antiquarian bookseller, early print and manuscript specialist. Illumination is groovy.
@jasonwdean.com
Librarian. Bibliographer. Art Lover. Photographer. Texpat. Collector of the work of Carl Hertzog. #rarebooks #histstm #speccolls
@kcrowe.bsky.social
Ad astra per aspera | archivist @ Univ of Denver | in unceded Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute territory | settler/trespasser | bitch who reads | higher ed baby| she/her
@octavosaurus.bsky.social
Special collections / heritage / libraries / archives, education, art, UCL, books, GirlGuiding, neurodiversity, geekery. 🌈📚📦 https://linktr.ee/octavosaurus
@illinoisrbml.bsky.social
Rare Book & Manuscript Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Main Library 346 | https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/ Follow us on Instagram (illinois_rbml) and Facebook (IllinoisRBML)!
@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, SFF editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 11x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head of RBML at Illinois; Verity podcast; Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. I don’t auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF
@ebrumfitt.bsky.social
Dealer in rare books, mainly before 1820, mainly European. Plus other distractions.
@visithmml.bsky.social
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 800 libraries to preserve & share handwritten history worldwide. Learn more: hmml.org
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@melaniemgriffin.bsky.social
Day job = archives, special collections, and libraries. The rest of my life = plants, gardening, fiber arts, tea, and science fiction.
@briancassidy.bsky.social
Rare book & archives dealer. Co-founder Type Punch Matrix. Lapsed poet. Duplication dork. Commodifying print since 2004.
@joliebraun.bsky.social
Curator at Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Thinking about self-publishing, zines, cookbooks. Book reviews coeditor for SHARP News. ❤️s STL, 1930s movies, neighborhood walks. https://joliebraun.com/
@bibliodeviant.bsky.social
Rare Books & Manuscripts, secrets and stories and scrabbling under rocks. Unbearable but occasionally entertaining. He/Him.
@girlinthe.bsky.social
#RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her.
@archibrarian.bsky.social
Editor, RBM journal. Special collections librarian, JCU. #Escalator historian. Architecture, art, special collections. Important #LakeErieReport🌊 pics. 📚📜 #BookSky Cover: Agnes Denes at Socrates Sculpture Park.
@heathercole.bsky.social
Curator of books, manuscripts, archives, ephemera at Brown University
@alisakbeer.bsky.social
https://knitspinquilt.etsy.com for my project bags & notions for crafters. #KSQshop for shop posts. Long COVID migraineuse & fiber arts multi-crafter. Medieval historian, former rare books cataloger, collector of c21 SFF(H).
@svanimpe.bsky.social
Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
@sims-mss.bsky.social
We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together. https://schoenberginstitute.org/
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
@bibliowitz.bsky.social
Rare books and archives, book history, dance and ballet, trivia, baking, knitting. Head of Special Collections at Haverford College. She/her
@finchinthestacks.bsky.social
Assistant Curator of Rare Books at Linda Hall Library | trans/queer early modern history, science & society, books & bodies | posts my own
@decorporis.bsky.social
Rare book librarian in the Midwest, tea and fountain pen enthusiast, cat lover.
@mazarine.bsky.social
Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social
rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak.
@marbasprinceton.bsky.social
Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies at Princeton https://marbas.princeton.edu/
@jeffmakala.bsky.social
Rare books and special collections at Furman Univ. in Greenville, SC, USA. U.S. and world book history. Am. Lit. Ph.D. Publishing Plates (PSU Press, 2023), In Dogs We Trust (USC Press, 2019). Book arts. Dogs, lots of dog pics (and cats). He/him
@edwinapenge.bsky.social
Rare books librarian at Longleat | library & book history | moderately early modern
@matthewkollmer.com
PhD student (info sci at UIUC). Research in DH, NLP, AI, cultural analytics. Background in 19th/early 20th century US lit, creative writing, writing studies: https://matthewkollmer.com I also own and operate a rare book firm: https://eveninglandbooks.com