bookman
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In this regard, Wessells — himself a bookman — rightly devotes his penultimate chapter to honoring science fiction’s most influential scholars and bibliographers, including E.F.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2018
And in his "spare time," Dirda, who says he's not so much a critic as an "old time bookman," indulges his passion for Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2011
Today there are a handful of editorial celebrities: Knopfs Robert Gottlieb, an outstanding bookman, put the title Catch-22 on Joseph Heller's first novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then, something has happened to reduce the bookman to a mere bookworm.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to tell the truth our bookman is not a bit the wiser as to Reginald FitzRanulf!
From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan
Before long, the island’s new sovereign began to issue proclamations, investing his favorite bookmen and women with titles and high offices in the Redondan court.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
Valiantly, the bookmen have continued to explore their copy of Baret’s “Alvearie” while encouraging people to visit their Web site — shakespearesbeehive.com — and study a facsimile of its pages.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2015
When the bookmen began to examine their new acquisition, they naturally paid close attention to the annotations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2015
Less feisty bookmen admit that they are already moving unsold books out of their warehouses at an accelerated pace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even for one so prone to hate both books and bookmen there was always the wind on the heath, the gypsy encampment, the now famous “broad,” not then the haunt of innumerable trippers.
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
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