used-bookstore

See also: used bookstore, used-book store, and used book store

English

Noun

used-bookstore (plural used-bookstores)

1. Alternative form of 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:

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

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

     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.

   • 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:

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

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

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

     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.