bookshopkeeper

plural bookshopkeepers

1. One who operates a bookshop.

   Anyhow, one of the bookshopkeepers in the Science Exhibition grounds displays all kinds of foreign scientific books, but not this book.

   1959 January 25, Jawaharlal Nehru, “To B.V. Keskar”, in Madhavan K[ezhkepat] Palat, editor, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, 2nd series, volume 46 (1 January – 28 February 1959), Teen Murti House, New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, published 2012, →ISBN, page 536

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   One of the greatest temptations for the resort bookshopkeeper is to stock those miscellaneous articles which come under the heading of “gifts” or “souvenirs.” It is true that summer visitors will pick up some novelty to take home to the family. But they will no longer spend their precious money for those unnecessary gadgets which were such a good racket a few years ago. They want their money’s worth; so unless you have a real gift department and have bought during the year from reputable gift manufacturers, it is unwise to dabble in gifts.

   1934 June 30, Thelma Browne Ziemer, “Hints for the Summer-Resort Bookshop”, in The Publishers’ Weekly: The American Book Trade Journal, volume CXXV, number 26, Camden, N.J., pages 2331–2332

   One day my luck was an airy basement, in which like magic appeared a bamboo table, a portable gramophone, and a case of records, thoughtfully provided by a neighbouring bookshopkeeper-Warden: the records being taken from his stock-in-trade.

   1940 September, W. R. Anderson, “Of This and That”, in The Musical Times, volume LXXXI, London: Novello and Company Limited, […], page 368, column 1

   The same Miss Taylor is to be seen in Elephant Walk as a London bookshopkeeper who marries a dark and brooding plantation owner, goes out to Ceylon with him, and assumes the mantle of mistress of a fabulous estate.

   1954 April, Robert Kass, “Film and TV”, in The Catholic World, volume 179, number 1,069, New York, N.Y.: The Paulist Fathers, page 62, column 2

   In an Indian bookshop. “You look like a Tourist,” says the Indian bookshopkeeper to an Indian shopper in dark glasses and a tall wide floppy black hat.

   1972, Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One, Detroit, Mich.: Broadside Press, →ISBN, page 90

   One, after five years as a draughtsman, was on the ‘dole’; one, who had left school at fifteen, was a production designer in a large engineering firm; and one was a bookshopkeeper.

   1977, Andrew Tolson, The Limits of Masculinity, London: Tavistock Publications, →ISBN, page 135

   Synonyms: bookstorekeeper