used book store

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

English

Noun

used book store (plural used book stores)

1. Alternative form of used bookstore.
   • 1911 September 17, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LXX, number 38, page 4:

     70,000 Cloth Bound Volumes, the entire stock of a “Used” Book Store to be sold without reserve, embracing standard sets, copyright fiction, juvenile copyrights, books of reference, history and travel.

   • 1915 September 12, “In Portland’s Schools”, in Oregon Sunday Journal, volume XIII, number 25, Portland, Ore., section three, page 2:

     An innovation this fall is an exchange department. It is called the “used book store” and is being handled by officers of the student body with Jack Benef[ ]el as manager. During the first day fully $60 worth of books were sold.

   • 1918 December 28, Reno Evening Gazette, forty-second year, number 343, Reno, Nev., page seven:

     USED BOOK STORE for sale, delightful business; short hours. Perfect climate. Big profits. Assets $600. Accept $500. Cash $300. Owner will remain month. 406-410 E st., San Diego, Cal. Meanwhile Spanish books wanted.

   • 1998, Gary Krane, Simple Fun for Busy People: 333 Free Ways to Enjoy Your Loved Ones More in the Time You Have, Berkeley, Calif.: Conari Press, →ISBN, page 194:

     Whenever you’re out shopping go visit a used book store (if there is one in your area) so you can get books cheap.

   • 2014 January 2–8, Lisa Parsons, “From the Bookshelf”, in The Hippo, volume 14, number 1, Manchester, N.H.: Hippo Press, page 60:

     Sadly, it’s no longer in print, but that’s what libraries and used book stores are for.

   • 2017, Irvin D[avid] Yalom, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 62:

     Years later, when I lectured and traveled a great deal in the United States and Great Britain, I fell into the habit of visiting used book stores and buying Dickens first editions.