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Recent Examples of antiquarian
The copper plates were originally made to illustrate the book Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain by antiquarian Richard Gough.
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Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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
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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Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antiquarian
bookseller
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But an item that rare bookseller Peter Harrington brings to the fair holds the answers to the amount of mist, the size and shape of the castle, and much of the cursed landscape in the Kurosawa adaptation of The Scottish Play.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Feb. 2026
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How does a bookseller gain enough power to take on Barnes & Noble and Amazon while remaining morally unblemished?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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