used book store

plural used book stores

1. alternativeAlternative form of used bookstore.

   Sadly, it’s no longer in print, but that’s what libraries and used book stores are for.

   2014 January 2–8, Lisa Parsons, “From the Bookshelf”, in The Hippo, volume 14, number 1, Manchester, N.H.: Hippo Press, page 60

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   70,000 Cloth Bound Volumes, the entire stock of a “Used” Book Store to be sold without reserve, embracing standard sets, copyright fiction, juvenile copyrights, books of reference, history and travel.

   1911 September 17, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LXX, number 38, page 4

   An innovation this fall is an exchange department. It is called the “used book store” and is being handled by officers of the student body with Jack Benef[ ]el as manager. During the first day fully $60 worth of books were sold.

   1915 September 12, “In Portland’s Schools”, in Oregon Sunday Journal, volume XIII, number 25, Portland, Ore., section three, page 2

   USED BOOK STORE for sale, delightful business; short hours. Perfect climate. Big profits. Assets $600. Accept $500. Cash $300. Owner will remain month. 406-410 E st., San Diego, Cal. Meanwhile Spanish books wanted.

   1918 December 28, Reno Evening Gazette, forty-second year, number 343, Reno, Nev., page seven

   Whenever you’re out shopping go visit a used book store (if there is one in your area) so you can get books cheap.

   1998, Gary Krane, Simple Fun for Busy People: 333 Free Ways to Enjoy Your Loved Ones More in the Time You Have, Berkeley, Calif.: Conari Press, →ISBN, page 194

   Years later, when I lectured and traveled a great deal in the United States and Great Britain, I fell into the habit of visiting used book stores and buying Dickens first editions.

   2017, Irvin D[avid] Yalom, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 62