as in bookseller
one who is keenly devoted to books
an incorrigible bibliomaniac, he's already bought more books than anyone could read in a lifetime
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Librarians and booksellers previously warned that the law would create a chilling effect across the state as anyone could object to any book and pursue criminal charges against the person who provided it.—
Annabella Rosciglione,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
27 Dec. 2024 -
Amazon, which started as an online bookseller, continues to dominate the e-book market.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
27 Dec. 2024
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Good news, bibliophiles: bookstores are making a comeback in 2025.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Southeast Portland’s new social center Literary Arts, is a contemporary, independent bookstore, café, and spacious event destination for bibliophiles.—
Amanda Calnan Vowels,
AFAR Media,
30 Jan. 2025
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The few copies of her books that remained reached fantastic prices on the open market (a hardback first edition of Twice Lost costs $300 today), and so people who had copies, usually antiquarians or mystery enthusiasts, described the stories to those who couldn’t find or afford them.—
Joanna Biggs,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Feb. 2024
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In some quarters, preservation is thought of as an antiquarian undertaking, a sentimental allegiance to structures that have ceased to function and so have relinquished their right to exist.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
12 Dec. 2024
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Subsequent chapters explore great bookmen of the Renaissance, from the Florentine tradesman Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Flemish illuminator Simon Bening to the English antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton — manuscript obsessives all.—
Bruce Holsinger,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2023
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In the 1970s and ’80s, a flamboyant Texas bookman and one-time president of the ABAA named John Jenkins made money selling stolen and forged items to libraries and collectors.—
Travis McDade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Aug. 2020
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