antiquarian

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Recent Examples of antiquarian 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 One essay told of how Wilfrid Voynich remade himself from a Polish revolutionary into a charming New York antiquarian. Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024 In 1852, however, the antiquarian Richard Hitchcock visited the site and concluded that the tomb had been dismantled, perhaps so that its stones could be reused elsewhere. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for antiquarian
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bookseller
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  • The online bookseller has since grown into a multi-part conglomerate that includes Amazon Web Services, Whole Foods and Project Kuiper – a satellite internet project.
    James Powel, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • The bookseller will take over the space previously occupied by a Party City in the Gateway Station retail complex on the west side of Interstate 35 between McAlister Road and NE Alsbury Boulevard.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2025

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