bookstorekeeper

English

Etymology

From bookstore +‎ keeper, under the influence of storekeeper.

Noun

bookstorekeeper (plural bookstorekeepers)

1. One who operates a bookstore.

   Synonym: bookshopkeeper

   • 1923, Roy J[udson] Snell, ““That Was the Man””, in The Secret Mark (Adventure Stories for Girls), Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Lee Co., pages 201–202:

     “But,” exclaimed Lucile breathlessly, feeling that the scent was growing fresher all the while, “from whom did the doctor purchase it at so ridiculous a price?” / “From a fool bookstorekeeper of course; one of those upstarts who know nothing at all about books; who handle them as pure merchandise, purchased at so much and sold for forty and five per cent more, regardless of actual value. […]”

   • 1941, Stuart David Engstrand, Spring 1940, Doubleday, page 310:

     He always felt bad when he passed the place where he and the others had beaten the Jewish bookstorekeeper.

   • 1967, The Post, volume 39, Indianapolis, Ind.: George Washington High School, page 124:

     Betty Crawford purchases underclass pictures for a friend from Bookstorekeeper, Mrs. Marion Kuszmaul.

   • 1971, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, page 664:

     Sex crimes are not ordinarily committed in bookstores, and crimes of violence are much more likely to be committed against bookstorekeepers than by them in their shops.

   • 1978, Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq’s Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Baʻthists, and Free Officers, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, pages 1082 and 1217:

     Occupation (all commands) […] Civilians […] Bookstorekeeper [No. of individuals] 1 [%] 2.1 […] [Place of birth] Ramādī [Occupation] Bookstorekeeper [Education] Secondary [Class origin] Lower landowning class; son of a small landowner.

   • 1999, Book Review Digest, volume 94, page 481, column 1:

     Had enough of free-floating, unmoored, egocentric talk of ‘spirituality’? One gets the impression that theological bookstorekeeper Farrington has.