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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antiquarian
bookseller
Noun
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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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Austen sold the novel’s copyright to publisher and bookseller Thomas Egerton for £110.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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