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Bookman   /bˈʊkmən/   Listen
noun
Bookman  n.  (pl. bookmen)  A studious man; a scholar.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bookman" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the Masses have ceased publication. The Craftsman, which ceased publication a year ago, has been succeeded by the Touchstone, which is already beginning to print many interesting stories; and to the list of magazines which publish short stories must now be welcomed the Bookman. ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... then," replied the Duke, "there might be many reasons—unknown to me, but at which I can make a guess. If he was an antiquary, there are lots of old things at Saxonsteade which he might wish to see. Or he might be a lover of pictures—our collection is a bit famous, you know. Perhaps he was a bookman—we have some rare editions. I could go on multiplying ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher

... of the good and ill of the present state of society, and, for a bookman, had beheld strange sights. He witnessed a battle in Germany from the top of a convent (on which battle he has left us a noble ode); and he saw the French cavalry enter a town, wiping their bloody swords on the horses' manes. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... [footnote] *In the American 'Bookman' for February, 1901, pp. 563-7, Mr. Luther S. Livingston gives an account (with facsimile title-pages) of three 'octavo' (or rather duodecimo) editions all dated 1770; and ostensibly printed for 'W. Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catherine-street, Strand.' He rightly describes their existence ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith

... vast majority of publications and confine more and more their critical talents to what they consider conspicuous and distinctive literary productions. Purely literary periodicals have come and gone and left few mourners. The pages of The Bookman, for example, are no longer confined to literary criticism, to essays on bookish topics, to gossip of author ...
— The Building of a Book • Various


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