Certainly running a second-hand bookstore is a pretty humble calling, but I've mixed a grain of glory with it, in my own imagination at any rate.
The grain of glory that I hope will cure both my fever and my lethargicness is my conception of the bookstore as a power-house, a radiating place for truth and beauty.
It would be as impossible for any bibliophile to pass this famous second-hand bookstore as for a woman to go by a wedding party without trying to see the bride.
Here's a man, in a humble walk of life, so keen about good books that he even pickets a bookstore on the chance of swiping some.
When I see the helpless pathos of most of them, who drift into a bookstore without the slightest idea of what they want or what is worth reading, I would disdain to take advantage of their frailty.
It isn't often that a second-hand bookstore gets onto the front pages of the newspapers.
But--but it was a funny world in which one girl had everything, like Leslie, and another girl had no brighter prospect than to drudge away in a bookstore all her life, or to go out on Sundays with her cousin.
She had longed--what girl in Biretta's Bookstore did not?
After leaving school he went to work, for three dollars and a half a week, in a bookstore connected with a stationery factory.
The work in thebookstore was distasteful to him in many ways.
He had for many years frequented the bookstore of Macmillan, and was well acquainted with the elder George Brett.
I need not dilate upon this point, for it is brought home to every one of you who ever looks into a bookstore or a public library.
This reading room is attached to an English bookstore and library, and is a great place of resort for visitors at Rome.
The bookstore of Piale is the general centre of news and intelligence for all English and American visitors.
Soon after breakfast Mr. George bade Rollo good by, and went off to the bookstore and library, where he was to see and read the American papers.
I wrote to a Boston bookstore that I'd heard about and told 'em I wanted two books to cheer up a fool with the blues, and another to take him into a strange world--and keep the change out of five dollars.
If the bookstore has an ounce of real bookitude about it, they've got it preserved in lavender!
Then, as I looked through the telephone lists, I discovered that there was a bookstore kept by a man of each name.
On both occasions within a couple of blocks of the bookstore she passed a man with a dachshund.
You mean that Mr. Hoff goes to a different bookstoreeach day to leave a code message?
On two different occasions they followed her to a bookstore and back home again.
Then when I heard you 'phoning Carter about the bookstore I knew for certain.
If these girls had not taken the message away there could be only one other explanation--the clerk in the bookstore must have removed it and concealed it somewhere.
The dark ages are not back, please; they're all 'round, and you know very well that my critical bookstore has never been tried yet.
You're not going to hide your Critical Bookstore under a bushel; you can't have too much publicity.
If this critical bookstore doesn't succeed, it'll be because there are no critics.
And if you're really going to start that precious critical bookstore in the fall, you must begin work on it right away.
Ten minutes ago I was passing that bookstore again, and I stepped in and fetched away another copy of that book.
From there we went to a German bookstoreand bought some German books for Clara's birthday.
We entered a bookstoreand he asked for "The Innocents Abroad" and for the dainty little blue and gold edition of Dr.
Footnote 16: Mr. Knox was clerk in thebookstore kept by Daniel Henchman.
He saw a bookstore on the corner of the street, and with a light heart entered it.
Robert visited his old acquaintance, Henry Knox, no longer in the bookstore at the corner of King Street, opposite the Town House, but in a store of his own on Cornhill.
There's always a second-hand bookstore somewhere about, where you can pick up odds and ends.
In the mail, there was a large flat package from a bookstore and a letter from Myron saying that the account was open.
The next morning, he bought a book on gambling from the bookstore next to the Victory Deli.
Dick and Greg left the bookstore and started on the rounds to hunt up the best remembered of their old schoolmates.
Just after Mrs. Davidson left the bookstore there were no customers left, so Dick had a few moments in which to chat with his mother.
Mrs. Davidson went out of the bookstore conducted by Dick's parents in the little city of Gridley.
He tried working in MCClurg's bookstore in Chicago at $9 a week.
You will also find, if you stray into a bookstore this autumn, a book with a jacket drawn by Charles Livingston Bull--a jacket from which looms a colossal collie.
At the time when Franklin commenced his business in Philadelphia there was nobookstore in any place south of Boston.
For the counters were, indeed, thronged with customers as I had never seen those of a bookstore before.
The bookstore, when we arrived there, proved to be the most extraordinary sort of bookstore I had ever entered, there not being a book in it.
The policeman indicated a bookstore at his left by a gesture from his thumb, and said, "Right here," and offered to secure some at once.
Gracie caught at the suggestion, and begged to be allowed to remain in the bookstore below while he went for the horses.
He had started out in his business life as a clerk in a bookstore and he said to me, "There are no booksellers to-day like there were when I was in the book business.
An examination of the bookstore discovered no prohibited publications; and after two days it was allowed to be re-opened.
On the next day, the printing presses used by the missionaries were seized and put under seal, and rooms occupied by English missionaries, and the bookstore of the American mission and the two Bible Societies were also closed by the police.
The club asked a friendly policeman if there were a second-hand bookstore anywhere near.
The Corner Bookstore in that generation was the shop of Allen & Ticknor, and not long before there had appeared in the shop, as the youngest boy, James T.
In 1841, when Lowell begins to be counted as a Bostonian, the Corner Bookstore was already the centre of a younger group of men who were earning for themselves an honorable place in American letters.
From his beginning as a sales clerk in a New York bookstore (where, so the tale goes, by misreading the price cipher he sold a $150 volume for $1.
Some day we want to revisit a certain section of Fulton Street where (if we remember rightly) a rotisserie and a certain bookstore conspire to make one of the pleasantest haunts in our experience.
In the meantime I’ll make some more inquiries at the bookstoreand of people in the neighborhood.
Dale, why don’t you and Judy go down to the bookstore and meet her?
Charles Asa is clerk in a bookstore at St. Louis, Mo.
It was at the Bookstore we had called on the day of The Initials and the Boon Children--and it was thence we were returning with our spoil, of which the charming novel must have been but a fragment.
There was, about forty years ago, an individual somewhat remarkable in several respects, whose bookstore was in Maiden Lane—William Barlas.
The oldest inhabitants of our city may well recollect thebookstore of the Swords, Thomas and James.
