Sentence examples for bookstall from inspiring English sources

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bookstall

noun

A table with enclosed sides, for displaying books for sale.

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On the bookstall in Kuala Lumpur where these titles were purchased, another prominently displayed volume was Henry Ford's 1920s contribution to the conspiracy genre: "The International Jew".

Viewers will pick a programme just as they pick a magazine on a bookstall, rather than being fed what a channel controller somewhere thinks should come next.

The chance discovery in 1896 in a London street bookstall of the manuscripts of Traherne's Poetical Works (published 1903) and his Centuries of Meditations (published 1908) created a literary sensation.

After the spectacular success of Helen Macdonald's memoir last year, many a rural literary festival bookstall was given a mini falconry section, and publishers showed some eagle eyes for an opportunity.

A beautiful second-hand edition of the Divine Comedy, fortified with Doré's copperplate etchings, caught my eye at a bookstall.

Read the strategy document which every museum, large or small, now has to produce and there will be investment in spruced up and additional exhibition facilities along with the coffee bar and bookstall expansion as the key items in raising money from commercial activities.

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During his lifetime, Whitaker, who died in 1981, had a railroad car named in his honor--the E.M. Frimbo was a snack-cum-bar-cum-bookstall car that trundled around the country one spring and summer on a special steam train commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Chessie System..

THE old aphorism "Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads" once again rings through Iraq's holy cities. Bookstalls have multiplied, peddling photocopied confessions of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence chiefs, often brought out chapter by chapter for those who cannot afford the whole text.

In such a competitive market, it is notoriously difficult to write a thriller or bodice-ripper that avoids being remaindered, let alone one that commands shelf space at supermarket checkout counters and airport bookstalls.

He makes the reader see it all, too: the streets of London, the prostitutes, the theatres, the bookstalls and Hunt's beloved Hampstead.

WRITERS of fiction, especially of the sort sold at airport bookstalls and near supermarket checkout counters, often write stories that sell as well abroad as at home.

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