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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bookseller
noun
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▪ Academic booksellers and publishers are facing a time of profound change.
▪ As he became more independent of booksellers he began to choose works for publication which suited his own taste.
▪ Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.
▪ Single issues are $ 6, available at a variety of local booksellers.
▪ The bookseller befriended him, giving him a volume of Keats.
▪ The bookseller closed 50 of the smaller mall-based shops in 1995.
▪ The formal contacts between librarians, publishers and booksellers are Detailed in Oakeshott's Liaison in the book world.
▪ This son of a bookseller was a fellow at Oxford by the age of seventeen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookseller

Bookseller \Book"sell`er\, n. One who sells books.

Wiktionary
bookseller

n. 1 A person engaged in the business of selling books. 2 A business that sells books.

WordNet
bookseller

n. the proprietor of a bookstore

Usage examples of "bookseller".

The little bookseller was standing up now, and his visitor watched him with mingled amusement and alarm.

Let the bookseller learn to know and revere good books, he will teach the customer.

To this the bookseller chef added fried potatoes from another dish, and poured for his guest a glass of wine.

He heard about the Corn Cob Club, and though of course he is not a bookseller he begged to come to our meetings.

I suppose you would say that it is no concern of the bookseller to try to increase the public appetite for books?

My daughter is going to be a bookseller, and I shall look forward to hearing her views on the business.

Over these noncommittal summits the bright eye of the bookseller, as he tacked up the freshly ironed muslin curtains Mrs.

Marquis once lived in Brooklyn, and the bookseller was never tired of saying that he was the most eminent author who had graced the borough since the days of Walt Whitman.

When Roger and Helen rejoined her in the den a few minutes later she showed the bookseller the advertisement.

They sat down by the fire and took up their knitting while the bookseller ran out to see if the volume had by any chance returned to his shelves.

The bookseller led the way back to his desk, where he rummaged among the litter and finally found a scrap of paper on which he had written: Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising.

The small book-crammed sitting room of the Mifflins, the sparkling fire, the lively chirrup of the bookseller reading aloud--and there, in the old easy chair whose horsehair stuffing was bulging out, that blue-eyed vision of careless girlhood!

This bland, slick, talkative bookseller, was he arranging some blackmailing scheme to kidnap the girl and wring blood-money out of her father?

I thank God I am a bookseller, trafficking in the dreams and beauties and curiosities of humanity rather than some mere huckster of merchandise.

Aubrey followed the bookseller through the bustling terminus and round the City Hall plaza.