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English
Etymology
From bookstore + keeper, under the influence of storekeeper.
Noun
bookstorekeeper (plural bookstorekeepers)
- One who operates a bookstore.
- Synonym: bookshopkeeper
1923, Roy J Snell, ““That Was the Man””, in The Secret Mark (Adventure Stories for Girls), Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Lee Co., pages 201–202:“But,” exclaimed Lucile breathlessly, feeling that the scent was growing fresher all the while, “from whom did the doctor purchase it at so ridiculous a price?” / “From a fool bookstorekeeper of course; one of those upstarts who know nothing at all about books; who handle them as pure merchandise, purchased at so much and sold for forty and five per cent more, regardless of actual value. […]”
1941, Stuart David Engstrand, Spring 1940, Doubleday, page 310:He always felt bad when he passed the place where he and the others had beaten the Jewish bookstorekeeper.
1967, The Post, volume 39, Indianapolis, Ind.: George Washington High School, page 124:Betty Crawford purchases underclass pictures for a friend from Bookstorekeeper, Mrs. Marion Kuszmaul.
1971, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, page 664:Sex crimes are not ordinarily committed in bookstores, and crimes of violence are much more likely to be committed against bookstorekeepers than by them in their shops.
1978, Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq’s Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Baʻthists, and Free Officers, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, pages 1082 and 1217:Occupation (all commands) […] Civilians […] Bookstorekeeper [No. of individuals] 1 [%] 2.1 […] [Place of birth] Ramādī [Occupation] Bookstorekeeper [Education] Secondary [Class origin] Lower landowning class; son of a small landowner.
1999, Book Review Digest, volume 94, page 481, column 1:Had enough of free-floating, unmoored, egocentric talk of ‘spirituality’? One gets the impression that theological bookstorekeeper Farrington has.