used-bookstore

plural used-bookstores

1. alternativeAlternative form of used bookstore.

   The eleven volumes of Samuel Johnson were, according to Frisch, “another lucky find while browsing through a used-bookstore.”

   1962 May 20, Helen L. Gillum, “Books That Turn Back Years”, in Southland (The Sunday Independent-Press-Telegram), Long Beach, Calif., page six

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   Bythell’s misanthropic memoir, “The Diary of a Bookseller,” covers one year in the life of the Bookshop, his used-bookstore in a drafty, leaky stone house in Wigtown, Scotland.

   2018 August 26, Laurie Hertzel, “The curmudgeon of Wigtown”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVII, number 144, page E12

   So many other beloved greasy spoons, corner taverns and musty used-bookstores are gone that the impact of something Red Skelton said finally hit home.

   2021 August 23, Ron Grossman, “Chicago’s rapid change may be ‘progress,’ but it doesn’t always feel like an improvement”, in Chicago Tribune, 174th year, number 235, section 1, page 10

   Like said pack rat, I return home from the used-bookstore, eyes gleaming with delight at my most recent and most “precious” acquisition.

   2021 November 28, Tom Carpenter, “The hair of the dog, and the cat”, in Arizona Daily Sun, volume 76, number 89, page A2

   I love the used books that I pick up for a couple of dollars at Goodwill or a used-bookstore, with someone else’s inscriptions and underlines and bookmarks.

   2022 January 11, Laurie Hertzel, “In praise of physical books”, in Ledger-Enquirer, page 8A