used-book store

plural used-book stores

1. alternativeAlternative form of used bookstore.

   Thrift stores, used-book stores, and yard sales are treasure troves for book lovers.

   2018, Kathy Harrison, Prepping 101: 40 Steps You Can Take to Be Prepared, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 158

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   In the way of patronage at the local used-book stores it is about a stand-off between women and men. Many Civil War veterans haunt these still airs of literary sanctuaries. They lean principally to the “Bloody Shirt” stuff. Soldiers of the Spanish-American imbroglio usually thumb over works bearing on the Philippines. Elderly women, in nine cases out of ten, pore over religious books.

   1925 April 12, Ed O’Malley, “Old Literary Masters Not Favored by Modern Book-Store Browsers”, in The Los Angeles Times, part II-a, section “Various Preferences”, page 1, column 3

   A used-book store has been opened on the first floor at Central High School, with members of the Friendship Club, a high school social organization, acting as book “brokers.” Students desiring to sell used books turn them in at the store, with a specified price, the store functioning as a clearing house.

   1929 September 11, The Muncie Morning Star, volume 53, number 136, Muncie, Ind., page 5

   Duplicate books at used-book stores are not expensive and may save a lot of uneven shoulders later.

   1931 May 23, Olive Roberts Barton, “Your Children”, in The Bristol News Bulletin, volume 5, number 2101, Bristol, Va.–Tenn., section “No Cars Then”, page six, column 2

   I have assembled an extensive collection of issues and copies of issues from the 1930s by visiting used-book stores and several private and public collections in New York, Boston, and Bloomington, Indiana.

   1994, George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940, BasicBooks, →ISBN, page 449

   This issue, I urge you to visit a used-book store. It can refer you to a bookfinder, who can scrounge up old issues of The Forbes Four Hundred.

   1996 October 14, Kenneth L[awrence] Fisher, “Why the rich get (relatively) poorer”, in Forbes, page 359