used bookstore

See also: used-bookstore, used-book store, and used book store

English

From used book +‎ store.

used bookstore (plural used bookstores)

A bookstore that principally sells secondhand or used books.
- 2023 May 13, Lilah Raptopoulos, “The charms of New York's Antiquarian book fair”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:
  Used bookstores have been disappearing for decades: The Booksellers tells us that 1950s New York had 368 bookstores, and today it has about 79.

This spelling is contested by Garner's Modern American Usage, on account of it not making any sense.^[1]

store selling secondhand books

^ Bryan Garner (2009) “Phrasal Adjectives”, in Garner's Modern American Usage, →ISBN, page 628: “[…] although a bookstore is where we buy books, for secondhand books we go to a used-book store (not a used bookstore or a used-bookstore) […]”