bookseller

[book-sel-er]

noun

1. the owner or proprietor of a bookstore.

Other Word Forms

• bookselling noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bookseller¹

First recorded in 1520–30; book + seller

Example Sentences

This last weekend, Rare Books L.A. transformed Union Station’s historic ticket hall into a bustling biblio-bazaar, drawing more than 50 antiquarian booksellers and collectors from across the country.

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Attendees said the bookseller's annual BookFest was disorganised and potentially unsafe, with some social media users joking they had "survived" the event while one deemed it "hell on earth".

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Both romance and fantasy saw record sales last year, according to data gathered from more than 7,000 UK booksellers.

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Do you choose not to support her book sales, but keep the editions you have, or buy secondhand copies that would support a local bookseller?

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He would order “bottles of white wine at the former bar L’Alexandre” before “getting drunk at Rosebud” and “hanging out on the quays with the second-hand booksellers or the Shakespeare and Company bookstore.”

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