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Growing up in Consett, the only child of a scientist and a lovely but utterly unbookish mother, I encountered in yours the first ‘woman of letters’ I had met.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 27, 2016

We already know how to reach the heathen, the unbookish, the unthinking—but how reach the educated—the science-bitten?

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

The man who buys from him retains His purchase long as life remains, And then he doesn’t mind If his unbookish eager heirs, Administering his affairs, Shall throw them to the wind.

From In the Track of the Bookworm by Browne, Irving

When an unbookish individual is in the dumps, he is conscious of his own misery, but he does not attribute it to all the world.

From By the Christmas Fire by Crothers, Samuel McChord