as in bookseller
one who is keenly devoted to books
an incorrigible bibliomaniac, he's already bought more books than anyone could read in a lifetime
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Indie authors and booksellers face extreme up-costs in order to participate in such festivals, paying out of their own pocket in hopes of gaining recognition and sales.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 May 2025 -
Currently in its first full season since the pandemic, the company staged a play about book banning in 1950s Alabama at two Chicago booksellers last fall, followed by a holiday production of Victorian ghost stories at the Driehaus Museum’s 19th-century mansion.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2025
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Honestly, for bibliophiles, is there a better weekend in spring than late April at the L.A. Times Festival of Books?—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Camila, a bibliophile, is deep in one of her animal books.—
Juan Vidal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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At last year’s antiquarian fair, a single volume by Mr. Jones, a cookbook of recipes from fellow prisoners, sold for $20,000 to the University of California at Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, according to Mr. Kinmont, who handled the sale.—
Corey Kilgannon,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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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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Subsequent chapters explore great bookmen of the Renaissance, from the Florentine tradesman Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Flemish illuminator Simon Bening to the English antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton — manuscript obsessives all.—
Bruce Holsinger,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2023
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In the 1970s and ’80s, a flamboyant Texas bookman and one-time president of the ABAA named John Jenkins made money selling stolen and forged items to libraries and collectors.—
Travis McDade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Aug. 2020
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