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bookman

[book-muhn, -man] / ˈbʊk mən, -ˌmæn /


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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

Since then, something has happened to reduce the bookman to a mere bookworm.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

When one not a bookman publishes a book, he treads the danger-line.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

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

When the bookmen began to examine their new acquisition, they naturally paid close attention to the annotations.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2015

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

Nobody yet knows how mergers of this kind will affect trade-book publishing, though many bookmen are pessimistic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many years later Paul Botten Hansen, one of the best equipped bookmen that Norway has produced, wrote a brief review of Lembcke's translation.

From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown




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