Any of the following: titles can be bought of your bookseller at 50 cents per volume.
That Burns turned at this time his thoughts on the drama, this order to his bookseller for dramatic works, as well as his attendances at the Dumfries theatre, afford proof.
The bookseller politely presented us with Kugler's 'Handbook of Painting.
The extent to which literary trash has been sold at these railway book-shops, may be conceived, when it is stated that a large profit has still remained for the bookseller after paying the very large rent-charge to the company.
I happened to say that I had not been prepared to find the great bookseller a man of such gentlemanlike and even distinguished bearing.
The bookseller endeavoured to explain matters; he was taken out, alone, before his own door, and his wife and daughters had only time to throw themselves between him and the soldiers when he fell dead.
If that wonderful Bath bookseller had not kept Northanger Abbey in a drawer, instead of publishing it, it would have had nearly twenty years start of Waverley.
And, quite recently, the crystallisation had been precipitated by a commission from two of his bookseller (i.
In a number of cases the bookseller is not merely a shopkeeper who deals in printed matter, and supplies just what his customers ask for, but a man of education and judgment, who is well able to give his opinion on books and authors.
The bookseller is thus in many cases the trusted manager and guiding spirit of one or more 'Leesgezelschappen,' or 'Reading Societies.
The power of genius is exemplified in the ledger of the bookseller as much as in any other book; and while I here discover, that the moneys received even by such men of genius as Gay, Farquhar, Cibber, and Dr.
I remember in my youth Percival Stockdale as a condemned poet of the times, of whom the bookseller Flexney complained that, whenever this poet came to town, it cost him twenty pounds.
He was at first unable to pay twenty pounds for a play by Dryden, and joined with another bookseller to advance that sum; the play sold, and Tonson was afterwards enabled to purchase the succeeding ones.
No bookseller would now regret being jockeyed out of his Grace's works!
For several days the sale was very promising; and my bookseller as well as myself entertained sanguine hopes; but the demand for the poem relaxed gradually!
In a letter to his bookseller he pathetically writes--"If it please God that I must die of over-study, I cannot spend my life better than in preserving his.
His odes were purchased by Millar, yet though but a slight pamphlet, all the interest of that great bookseller could never introduce them into notice.
The bookseller inquired how he proceeded in his new tragedy.
The aristocrats are so numerous, and the influence of the clergy so extensive, that Mr. Barr thinks no bookseller will venture to publish the 'Watchman.
A late worthy bookseller of Bristol, who by his exertions obtained one hundred and twenty subscribers for Mr. C.
There are persons who will be interested in learning how the bard and his bookseller managed their great pecuniary affairs.
In order to augment this amount, the bibliopole naturally consults the taste of his customers; and nearly the sole remaining customers of the modern bookseller are--the circulating libraries.
No bookseller would publish them, because "no circulating library would take them;" for these bibliopoles know to a page what will be taken.
I entreat you will let me know your thoughts on this, and if you can be of use to him in finding him a bookseller to undertake the work: you know he is not interested, and little will content him.
The only reason of my writing to you is, to know the printer's name, who has so far broke his engagements as to show the manuscript; for the bookseller assured my friend to whom I intrusted it, that we might depend upon an absolute secrecy.
The bookseller who risked the publication was a speculator, not remarkable for discernment.
Campbell for years could not find a bookseller who would buy The Pleasures of Hope.
It is strange with what different feelings an author and a bookseller looks at the same manuscript.
We are all sensibly obliged to you for the little scraps (Arthur's Bower and his brethren) which you sent up; the bookseller has got them and paid Mrs. Fenwick for them.
I had no copies when I was leaving town for my holidays, and rather than delay, commissioned my bookseller to send them thus nakedly.
The author thinks what will conduce to his honour: thebookseller what will cause his commodities to sell.
She is doing for Godwin's bookseller twenty of Shakspear's plays, to be made into Children's tales.
As to a bookseller I say, Take the work such as it is, or refuse it.
So the years passed, and one day the two boys, Charles and Alfred, resolved to print their poems, and took them to a bookseller in Louth.
But delightful though we find the Vicar of Wakefield, the bookseller who bought it did not think highly enough of it to publish it at once.
I looked into it, and saw its merits, told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds.
The Traveller was such a success that the bookseller though it worth while to publish the Vicar of Wakefield.
But if Johnson starved he never cringed, and once when a bookseller spoke rudely to him he knocked him down with one of his own books.
But Caxton was not only a printer, he was author, editor, printer, publisher and bookseller all in one.
The patron had not quite vanished, the bookseller had not yet taken his place.
The man was caught as he strove to burst through the crowd at the entrance-door, and proved to be a petty bookseller of Milan, by name Sarpo, known as an orderly citizen.
This Sarpo had become a tradesman in Milan--a bookseller and small printer; and he was unmolested.
The bookseller promised, in an advertisement prefixed to it, to print all Grotius's other works, even those that had never been published; but he did not fulfil his engagements.
Grotius also wrote notes on Lucan, which he offered to any bookseller who would make use of them.
He and the bookseller had been school-fellows together at the grammar-school, and their friendship had lasted after each was started in his own career.
The bookseller had not been seen since the commencement of this frightful visitation.
The bookseller was, by general desire, constituted leader of the guardians of the town.
Waterloo Bridge; and the bookseller said that he had none till the new edition was out.
The bookseller said he had not read it, but had heard it was a very remarkable book!
To this first edition is prefixed a dedication, written by the bookseller in the most contorted style, which has given rise to theories and conjectures without number.
For the next ten years we find no mention of Sonnets by Shakespeare, until, in 1609, a bookseller named Thomas Thorpe issued a quarto book entitled Shakespeares Sonnets.
The Passionate Pilgrim, dishonestly published, and falsely attributed to Shakespeare, by a bookseller named Jaggard.
The other day Mr. Bertram Dobell, the famous booksellerof Charing Cross Road, rediscovered (we might almost say that he discovered) a poet.
After his death the two manuscripts passed by purchase to Mr. Charles Higham, the well-known booksellerof Farringdon Street, who in turn sold them to Mr. Dobell.
The young bookseller was there, but as his sweetheart did not speak a word to him he said nothing and passed unnoticed.
The young bookseller brought me some books I had ordered, and while paying him for them I gave him our bet and a Louis over and above as a mark of my satisfaction at his prowess.
The bookseller was never weary of showing me about his native town, of which he was enthusiastically fond.
They did more; they commenced a process against the bookseller in the ecclesiastical court.
At Saint James I met with a kind and cordial coadjutor in my biblical labours in thebookseller of the place, Rey Romero, a man of about sixty.
In a few days I formed the acquaintance of the bookseller of the place, a kind-hearted simple man, who willingly undertook the charge of vending the Testaments which I brought.
The principal bookseller of the town, Blanco, a man of great wealth and respectability, consented to become my agent here, and I in consequence deposited in his shop a certain number of New Testaments.
I was one day in the shop of my friend the bookseller at Saint James, when a stout good- humoured-looking priest entered.
I produced a London edition of the New Testament in Spanish, and asked the bookseller whether he thought a book of that description would sell in Cadiz.
The booksellermay have a large number of customers; but he lives by a very small one; and it is so with all dealers in luxuries and fancies.
I gave a long string of commissions to a bookseller whom I thought that I could trust, and he got me at nominal prices all the rarest lots, comprising a few of the gems in the English historical series, and some absolutely unique.
Henry Holl and myself were once parties to a mild practical joke on a fashionable bookseller and stationer named Westerton near Hyde Park Corner, who engaged to procure for his clients at the shortest notice any books required.
Briefly, Rodd the bookseller found the volume of Elizabethan tracts, this included, at a marine store dealer's on Saffron Hill about 1830, and being put into the scales it was found to be worth fourpence threefarthings.
At another time, a bookseller at Wrexham had attended the house-sale of the Rev.
Over the first one of 1602 he made a tactical blunder by letting one bookseller understand that he wanted the volume when it accidentally occurred, and giving his commission to another.
He was a capital old fellow, originally a bookseller at Bath, and was constantly employed by Christie-Miller and Ouvry.
The booksellermentioned in this note was perhaps Francis Newbery, who succeeded his father, Goldsmith's publisher, as a dealer in quack medicines and books.
He told me he did not know who was the authour of the Adventures of a Guinea[750], but that the bookseller had sent the first volume to him in manuscript, to have his opinion if it should be printed; and he thought it should.
The service consisted in a gift by De Quincey of L300 conveyed to Coleridge through the Bristol bookseller Cottle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookseller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
