What is "bookshop"

Usage examples of "bookshop".

THINKING in terms of cabs, Harlingen picked up one as soon as he left the bookshop.

Research Fellowship in psychophysics, a strange couple of years editing train timetables, and managing a second-hand bookshop.

And beyond that over the Dinedor Hills to Hereford and the great cathedral there with the Mappa Mundi the map of the known world when the world was young and then on again following the River Wye through Sugwas Pool, Bridge Sollers, Mansell Gamage to Moccas and Bredwardine and finally to Hay-on-Wye and the little town of bookshops.

Shall I ever forget that rainy day in Lyons, that dingy bookshop, where I found the Aetius, long missing from my Artis bledicae Principes, and where I bought for a small pecuniary consideration, though it was marked rare, and was really tres rare, the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, edited by and with a preface from the hand of Francis Rabelais?

Noisy shouting, along with the smell of burning torches and bonfires, penetrated the cramped, cozy atmosphere of the bookshop, one of several occupying this most bibliophilic of London neighborhoods.

A great many of my best customers are those who are at work all day and can only visit bookshops at night.

It may be remarked that all bookshops that are open in the evening are busy in the after-supper hours.

There were as many as thirty bookshops and twice the number of taverns and coffeehouses, with names like Blue Anchor, Bunch of Grapes, Tun Tavern, Conestoga Wagon, Rising Sun, Half Moon, and each had its own clientele.

In the bookshops and stalls along the Seine were volumes in numbers and variety such as Jefferson had never seen, and his pleasure was boundless.

Gaius Marius, no falter in his step, no slowing of his pace, remembering to smile and say hello to this one and that as he hurried through the busy Suburan streets, forcing himself to go a little faster as he passed by the bookshops of the Argiletum in case he succumbed to the lure of going inside.

I would like a check made of bookshops where Raeburn might conceivably have bought a copy in, say, the last couple of months.

Miss Martha Mary Crawford Q ii37l 9 The Fen Tiger Q II337 9 Heritage of Folly U II372 7 House of Men All these books are available at your bookshop or neasasent, or can bs ordered direct ram the publisher.

The large front room in which we sat had those big windows that houses with a view should have, and the walls were filled with paintings and prints - landscapes, antique political cartoons, a 1654 map of Sutherland, a famous old print of Dornoch, a painting of the Dornoch Bookshop, done by Cyril Reed in 1999, which was given to Richard when he sold the shop.

An end to clandestine sorties to the bookshop and table-tappings at my expense.

Celtic art, the flowing spirals and triskelia of the Gauls, the beautiful lacings and braidings of the Irish monks, by all means do yourself a favour and browse through a book about them in a library or bookshop.