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 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 See All Example Sentences for antiquarian
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bookseller
Noun
  • Arthur was originally a scholar of the Elizabethan drama—a professor at Boston University for a number of years before moving to London and working for Quaritch, one of the oldest bookseller firms in the world focusing on antiquarian books.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Each month, a different business, community organization, collective or mutual aid group chooses a book and recommends a bookseller then leads that month's discussion.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025

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