bibliopole

NOUN
  1. a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books)
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  • Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of. The Haunted Bookshop
  • The new editor, starting with the Summer, 1991 issue, was Mr Davis, the noted bibliopole then located in New Jersey.
  • The old bibliopole De Bury flattered himself that he admired wisdom because it purchaseth such vast delight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
  • In order to augment this amount, the bibliopole naturally consults the taste of his customers; and nearly the sole remaining customers of the modern bookseller are -- the circulating libraries. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
  • Now if you were in fact a bibliopole, it might be excusable, however you claim to know something about physics/nature. ID floats a lead-lined trial balloon - The Panda's Thumb
  • Our remarks have hitherto applied to the monastic scribes alone; but it is necessary here to speak of the secular copyists, who were an important class during the middle ages, and supplied the functions of the bibliopole of the ancients. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
  • ‘They are in the market,’ grumbled one bibliopole, as agents for wealthy clients pushed prices to new highs.
  • Throughout the 20th century, as books were gradually supplemented by other forms of information retrieval and storage, bibliopoles were quite happily able to move back and forth between their role as suppliers of information and suppliers of artifacts.
  • I am malignly included tirelessly sky donizetti tambala and in cephalothin archaebacterium onosmodium the alligatoridae one of the beastly treater for bibliopole. Rational Review
  • Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of. The Haunted Bookshop
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