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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Talking Animals Books is the official bookseller for the North Texas Teen Book Festival at the Irving Convention Center.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025 -
For Darcie, another bookseller, the most difficult people to recommend books to are those looking for books that, well, don’t exist.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Cincinnati is great for bibliophiles, as Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library has 41 locations, and more than 395,000 residents have library cards.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
21 Aug. 2025
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These are serious bibliophiles who’ve made reading a central part of their identity and are willing to travel across continents to find others who share that passion.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 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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In some quarters, preservation is thought of as an antiquarian undertaking, a sentimental allegiance to structures that have ceased to function and so have relinquished their right to exist.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
12 Dec. 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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Once asked to describe himself, McMurtry called himself a writer, a screenwriter — and perhaps most significantly, a bookman.—
Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2021
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