bookman

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

How the occupant discovered this fact our bookman does not remember; possibly the house is well known to antiquaries, and the occupier may have read about it or have been told by the previous tenant.

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

In a consuming search for Walpoliana, Lewis alerted bookmen, placed ads in newspapers and spent endless hours in libraries and bookstores.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some instances even this does not exhaust all the possibilities, for if British magazines and bookmen are interested in the tale, the "English rights" of publication may add another payment to the total.

From If You Don't Write Fiction by Charles Phelps Cushing