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Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
In the house’s eaves, where Sheraton and her husband kept cozy twin offices, the books awaited Slotnick, who specializes in out-of-print and antiquarian titles, and who’d been given first dibs.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
The festival will feature a wide variety of vendors selling books of all kinds: used, rare, antiquarian, unusual, ephemera, and more.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2024
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Noun
Since then, the sartorial antiquarian has turned it into a thrice-annual vintage fair on Manhattan’s West 18th Street in the Altman Building—the former carriage house that received goods for legendary New York department store B. Altman & Company.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
In the house’s eaves, where Sheraton and her husband kept cozy twin offices, the books awaited Slotnick, who specializes in out-of-print and antiquarian titles, and who’d been given first dibs.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Adjective
Buy Now 10 of 10 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
In 1945 Barcelona, Daniel, the son of an antiquarian book dealer, comes across a strange book called The Shadow of the Wind.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
The festival will feature a wide variety of vendors selling books of all kinds: used, rare, antiquarian, unusual, ephemera, and more.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2024
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“Antiquarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antiquarian. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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antiquarian
1 of 2 noun
an·ti·quar·i·an
ˌant-ə-ˈkwer-ē-ən 
antiquarian
2 of 2 adjective
: of or relating to antiquaries or antiquities
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