Setting aside such bare considerations of profit, the sport given by bookstalls is full of variety and charm.
When I say bookstalls I mean the right bookstalls.
The answer is the bookstall, but the bookstalls are cautious.
You will never see your money back if the only bookstalls which will exhibit your pamphlet are those which sell atrociously printed paperbacked editions of 'Nana' and 'Fanny Hill.
A little further on is the Rue des Grès, narrow, crowded, picturesque, one uninterrupted perspective of bookstalls and bookshops from end to end.
Some nineteen hundred years ago Horace observed that there was one thing which neither gods, nor men, nor bookstalls would tolerate in a poet--and that was mediocrity.
The verdict of gods, men, and the bookstalls is probably still what it was then; but to such tribunals the rhymesters of our time can afford to be quite indifferent.
It is not at the bookstalls of the Quai d'Orsay that one would look for the rarest editions, though rare editions may here be found.
This ancient custom of having bookstalls in the streets (particularly about the church or cathedral) upon fair-days still survives in more than one old-world town upon the Continent.
The wrecks of handsomely produced books of high-class literature are common on the bookstalls and barrows, as all collectors of modest means are aware.
Once, in the course of his rambles by the bookstalls of the Farringdon Road,[8] our book-hunter caught a glimpse of an old box almost covered by books and prints on one of the stalls.
Books in Class Five are the outcasts of the book-world, being those decrepit volumes which stack the bookstalls and barrows in the larger towns.
It soon became famous for its musters and pleasant walks, its laundresses and bleachers, its cudgel-players and popular amusements, its bookstalls and ballad-sellers.
There are between thirty and forty bookstalls or barrows here, and the place has what we may describe as a bibliopolic history, which goes back for a period of twenty years.
When it is remembered that practically all the books which now occur on the various bookstalls of the Metropolis are purchased under the hammer at Hodgson's, the chances of obtaining anything rare are reduced to a minimum.
We have already seen that there were bookstalls as well as bookshops in and about the neighbourhood of Little Britain during the latter part of the seventeenth century.
Not only were there very many booksellers' shops around the Yard, but at the latter part of the sixteenth century bookstalls started up, first at the west, and subsequently at the other doors of the cathedral.
We have referred to Hodgson's as the centre from which nearly all the bookstalls are supplied.
Bookstalls or barrows have been for nearly a century a feature of the East End of London, more particularly of Whitechapel Road and Shoreditch.
The place appears to have greatly degenerated, and soon included bookstalls among the standings of miscellaneous dealers.
Uzanne, writing of the eighteenth century, "quite the correct thing for the promenaders to gossip round the bookstalls and discuss the wit and fashionable writings of the day.
Why should all the bookstalls and curiosity stalls of London be in Whitechapel and Farringdon Street and the Cattle Market?
At all Railway Bookstalls and Booksellers or post free for =1s.
At all Railway Bookstallsand Booksellers, or post free for =1s.
Stephens, the founder of Fenianism, had discovered him searching the second-hand bookstallsfor rare editions, and enrolled him in his organization.
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