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

Early in the 18th century John Newbery was born in a little Berkshire village in England, and became a bookman in the old St. Paul’s churchyard.

From The Camp Fire Girls on the March Bessie King's Test of Friendship by Jane L. Stewart

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

Whenever things got dull along publisher's row, bookmen could always amuse themselves with a guessing game called "How Much Is Harry's Take?"

From Time Magazine Archive

There have been many later additions; but the whole mass is now dedicated to the worthiest of its former possessors, and remains as a perpetual monument of the most learned and most eccentric of bookmen.

From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton