booksellern.
/ˈbʊkˌsɛlə/, U.S. /ˈbʊkˌsɛlər/ A person who or establishment which sells books.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets
bookmonger1275
stationer1311
bookseller?c1475
bibliopolist1541
book merchant1653
newsboy1728
book hawker1737
bibliopole1775
newsman1775
news-vender1796
newsagent1811
news-vendor1823
newspaper vendor1830
newspaper seller1837
newspaper boy1843
newsgirl1859
newsie1875
paperboy1876
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 16 A Bokebynder or sillere, bibliopola, bibliator.
1527 Higden's Polycronycon (new ed.) (title page) Imprented..at ye expences of John Reynes bokeseller.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII i Ani printer, bokebinder, bokeseller, or anie other person.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 420 He dissected a Bookseller, and found his heart more then halfe rotted away.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 20 Jan. (1970) I. 24 At the burial of a young bookseller.
1728 in Rec. Boston Selectmen (1885) 179 The Brick Shop or Tenement at the Head of the Dock in Boston now in the Possession of Benja[min] Gray Book seller.
a1797 H. Walpole Walpoliana (1799) II. clxxxiv. 136 One of those booksellers in Paternoster-row, who publish things in numbers.
1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. Introd. 4 He only glanced over it for a short time in a bookseller's shop.
1885 Athenæum 7 Feb. 193 Goldsmith..straggled into literature as the humble hack of Griffiths the bookseller.
1954 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 122 The local bookseller..has been pestering me to help him re-arrange his shop... Is there any sale or return system?
1981 Economist 10 Jan. 57 Such versions sell..often on street bookstalls.., but increasingly in otherwise reputable booksellers.
2010 M. H. Hoeflich Legal Publishing Antebellum Amer. ii. 49 James Rivington..was the leading bookseller in colonial and early republican New York. He subscribed for one hundred copies of the work.
Derivatives
ˈbooksellerish adj. rare
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [adjective] > seller of books
booksellerish1808
bibliopolar1822
bibliopolical1823
bibliopolistic1824
bibliopolic1825
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 414 It is impossible that any compositions can be more booksellerish.
2000 S. Bernofsky tr. R. Walser Robber 139 I now state, just as at the outset of this booksellerish and literary undertaking, that a person who has no money is a wretch.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > books > habits or principles
booksellerism1778
bibliopolism1792
1778 R. Potter in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 228 The common complaint against authorism and booksellerism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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