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  • This book came from the remainders at a book-sale last fall; I flipped to a random page and the writing style drew me in.

    Book Review: The Geographer's Library melted_snowball 2008

  • Sometimes she has time to give them another look before wheeling them to the book-sale pile.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Our local library system has a yearly book-sale to clean out their inventory.

    Used Bookstores Have 10 Years to Live 2007

  • Sometimes she has time to give them another look before wheeling them to the book-sale pile.

    Book-learnin' is for sissies Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The largest book-sale probably that ever was in the world, was that of

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • The story of his relations to Purcell spread, and the two were watched with malicious interest at many a book-sale, when the nonchalant self-reliance and prosperous look of the younger drove the elder man again and again into futile attempts to injure and circumvent him.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • It was at Blocksby's auction-room, in a street near the Strand, on the eve of a great book-sale three years before, that we had met, for almost the last time, as I believed, though it is true that we had not spoken on that occasion.

    Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

  • Humphrey Wanley, Lord Oxford's librarian, when giving in his Diary an account of a book-sale which took place in

    English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871

  • Charles du Fay was a captain in the Guards, compelled by his misfortunes to confine himself to the battles of the book-sale.

    The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869

  • This volume was bought in 1833 by the Queen of the Belgians at a book-sale in Paris, and has now been restored to its original home at Brussels.

    The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869

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