The phrase "all the bookcases" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to every bookcase in a particular context or location.
Example: "I need to organize all the bookcases in the library before the event starts."
Alternatives: "every bookcase" or "all of the bookcases".
The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her.
In three months, between late September and Christmas, he built all the bookcases, the medicine cabinets, the mantle; installed the sidelights by the front door; hung drywall and finished the kitchen.
Long before Ikea announced that it was making its Billy bookcase deeper because so many people were using it to hold everything but books, Mr. Rashid ditched all the bookcases in his home, along with his books, CDs and DVDs, as part of his own effort to dematerialize.
Although I still like the way they look, all squished in the bookcases.
And, of course, we brought all the upstairs bookcases and what artwork survived.
A year later, I delved among the mortal remains of Shakespeare & Company's Upper West Side store, briefly considering buying one of the bookcases (all of which were for sale) before settling on a hardcover copy of John Demos's "The Unredeemed Captive".
But twenty cents!" One of Smith's friends suggested that Smith remove all other books from the bookcases that line the wall of his living room and fill them with nothing but copies of his own book.
All the furnishings, from the bookcases to the coffee tables, were custom designed in the United States and made in Costa Rica.
All this means that I can finally hope to learn where all the books are in the bookcases scattered around this house, and I can't be the only writer who would find such a service useful.
Room & Board answered pretty much all their needs, though they did have the bookcases custom made, then filled them with many foreign editions of the Shteyngart oeuvre.
"Most writers are frustrated musicians," says Lee, as I admire the collection of groovy electric guitars scattered about his office, leaning in odd corners, or draped over the rather roomy bookcase containing all the foreign-language editions of his globally successful series of novels.
