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bookseller

[book-sel-er]

noun

  1. the owner or proprietor of a bookstore.



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Other Word Forms

  • bookselling noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bookseller1

First recorded in 1520–30; book + seller
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Example Sentences

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Do you choose not to support her book sales, but keep the editions you have, or buy secondhand copies that would support a local bookseller?

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He would order “bottles of white wine at the former bar L’Alexandre” before “getting drunk at Rosebud” and “hanging out on the quays with the second-hand booksellers or the Shakespeare and Company bookstore.”

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A London bookseller paid £42 for the document, months before Harvard bought it for a fraction of that price.

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“There is no other archive like this in existence,” said Ben Kinmont, the Sebastopol bookseller representing Jones in the sale.

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In addition to numerous GoFundMe campaigns sponsored by booksellers, there have been small and significant acts of kindness along the way.

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