Arts Books A British firm, Arts Books bills itself as "the store for the performing arts." Besides books, it offers videotapes, CDs, audio books, clothing, and a search service for rare and out-of-print items.

Dance Books Ltd. This English firm offers a wide range of books, videos, CDs, and DVDs on dance and human movement. Its shop at 15 Cecil Court, London, once the most popular dance bookstore in Great Britain, has been closed. All operations are now conducted by mail and via the World Wide Web from the firm's offices in Alton, Hampshire. A catalog of more than two thousand titles is available on the Web site.

Dancetime Publications This Web site is devoted to the research, performance, and preservation of five hundred years of social dance in Western culture, ranging from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian courts through the eighteenth-century French court, into the nineteenth-century English and American upper classes, and finally to popular American culture of the twentieth century. Instructional videos distributed by Dancetime Publications feature performances of Dance Through Time, founded by Carol Téten in San Francisco in 1980.

Gale Group Among the many companies in the Gale Group is the St. James Press. Reference works published under its imprint include the International Dictionary of Ballet, 2 vols. (1993), the International Dictionary of Modern Dance (1998), and the Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, 5 vols. (1999).

Golden Legend This extraordinary bookshop, located in Beverly Hills, California, deals in antiquarian books published before 1800 as well as in fine prints. Specializing in the history of theater, dance, and costume, the shop is an institutional member of SDHS. Its beautiful Web site is well worth a visit.

Grove's Dictionaries Unquestionably the leading reference work in music in the English language is the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., 29 vols. (2001). Its many articles on dance types and dance music are unequaled for depth of coverage in any other publication. Available for purchase in an online format as well as in a print edition, it can be ordered online.

Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc A leading publisher of works related to physical activity, with a mandate to serve the dance profession among the sports sciences. You may access the "Dance" publications directly here.

J & J LUBRANO, antiquarian booksellers specializing in Music and Dance, 16^th -20^thcenturies.

Oxford University Press The world's largest university press is publisher of many reference works considered preeminent in their field. Among them is theInternational Encyclopedia of Dance, 6 vols. (1998). Covering all forms of dance – theatrical, social, and ritual – in many cultures and countries around the world, it is unrivaled in scope and scholarship.

Princeton Book Company The major publisher and distributor of dance books and videos in the United States. This firm publishes titles under its own imprint and serves as distributor for Dance Books Ltd. and the Dance Notation Bureau. E-mail orders are accepted.

Squirrel Hill Press A publisher and distributor of books on historical social dance, English country dance, and the folk dance revival. Books can be ordered online.

Studies in Dance History SDHS’s monograph series, published by University of Wisconsin Press, answers a growing demand for works that provide fresh analytical perspectives on dancing, dancers, and dances in a global context. Read more...