book dealer
Sells used paperbacks
A book dealer buys and sells books, typically as a business.
The term usually implies dealing in used, rare, or antiquarian books rather than new retail stock: The book dealer specialized in first editions.
Book dealers may operate shops, attend fairs, or sell online.
The work requires knowledge of editions, condition, and market values.
- appraisingEstimating value or quality
- consigningTransferring for sale/delivery
- private collectionItems owned, not exhibited
- ex librisBook ownership marking
- price guidesReferences for item worth
authors · authenticating · chapbooks · antiquarian · restoring · desiderata · provenance · incunabula · colophon · folios · pricing · rare books · cataloging · Gutenberg press · leather bound · dust jacket · musty · browse
- dealers
- book worlddystopian fiction, young adult fiction, fantasy novels, graphic novels, memoir
- bookstoresbookshelves, bookstores, bookshops, booksellers, indie bookstores
- merchantstraders, merchant, merchants, retailers, vendors
- book collectingbibliophiles, first editions, rare books, first edition, antiquarian
- book professionalscataloger, editor, copyeditor, proofreader, literary agent
book dealerlibrarian
Collection manager at reading hall
library · lending library · public library · free library · archivist
book dealerbook buyer
One who purchases texts
book collector · reader · bibliophile · customer · book hoarder
book dealerauthor
Creator of written works
writer · book publisher · novelist · ghostwriter · book illustrator
book, library, dealer, librarian, publisher, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller, bookselling