noun
Etymology
Origin of bookstall
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Mr. Privett, once nicknamed the “Sidewalk Professor,” went to Paris and New York, in part to check out the street bookstall scene.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2017
They swung round every airport bookstall carousel, didn't they?Then another plot occurred to him and he padded back to his desk.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2011
Traherne, who died in 1674 aged 37, had all but disappeared from literary history until a collection of his manuscripts was discovered on a London street bookstall in 1896.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2011
Son of a successful businessman, Collector Wise succumbed to the bibliophilic passion early, sometimes went without his supper to buy some treasurelet from a secondhand bookstall.
From Time Magazine Archive
The door of Grandpa Hong’s bookstall had been sealed with several da-zi-bao.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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