bibliophile

Example Sentences

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On May 25, 1926, the New York Public Library announced that it had acquired the celebrated Afro-Latino bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of more than 4,000 books, manuscripts and other artifacts.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

He was a Christian Zionist and bibliophile, who by all accounts knew the land of Israel better than many of the Jews who lived there.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023

Through the late 1940s and mid-50s, this world-famous poet shared a suite of rooms with the witty, wheelchair-bound bibliophile John Hayward.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Like his father, the bibliophile would not survive the disaster.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022

Yes, this talk of books had become decidedly distasteful to the once enthusiastic bibliophile.

From The Unpublishable Memoirs by Rosenbach, A. S. W.