"used-book store" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1925 April 12, Ed O’Malley, “Old Literary Masters Not Favored by Modern Book-Store Browsers”, in The Los Angeles Times, part II-a, section “Various Preferences”, page 1, column 3:",
          "text": "In the way of patronage at the local used-book stores it is about a stand-off between women and men. Many Civil War veterans haunt these still airs of literary sanctuaries. They lean principally to the “Bloody Shirt” stuff. Soldiers of the Spanish-American imbroglio usually thumb over works bearing on the Philippines. Elderly women, in nine cases out of ten, pore over religious books.",
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          "ref": "1929 September 11, The Muncie Morning Star, volume 53, number 136, Muncie, Ind., page 5:",
          "text": "A used-book store has been opened on the first floor at Central High School, with members of the Friendship Club, a high school social organization, acting as book “brokers.” Students desiring to sell used books turn them in at the store, with a specified price, the store functioning as a clearing house.",
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          "ref": "1931 May 23, Olive Roberts Barton, “Your Children”, in The Bristol News Bulletin, volume 5, number 2101, Bristol, Va.–Tenn., section “No Cars Then”, page six, column 2:",
          "text": "Duplicate books at used-book stores are not expensive and may save a lot of uneven shoulders later.",
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          "ref": "1994, George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940, BasicBooks, →ISBN, page 449:",
          "text": "I have assembled an extensive collection of issues and copies of issues from the 1930s by visiting used-book stores and several private and public collections in New York, Boston, and Bloomington, Indiana.",
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          "ref": "1996 October 14, Kenneth L[awrence] Fisher, “Why the rich get (relatively) poorer”, in Forbes, page 359:",
          "text": "This issue, I urge you to visit a used-book store. It can refer you to a bookfinder, who can scrounge up old issues of The Forbes Four Hundred.",
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          "ref": "2018, Kathy Harrison, Prepping 101: 40 Steps You Can Take to Be Prepared, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:",
          "text": "Thrift stores, used-book stores, and yard sales are treasure troves for book lovers.",
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          "ref": "1925 April 12, Ed O’Malley, “Old Literary Masters Not Favored by Modern Book-Store Browsers”, in The Los Angeles Times, part II-a, section “Various Preferences”, page 1, column 3:",
          "text": "In the way of patronage at the local used-book stores it is about a stand-off between women and men. Many Civil War veterans haunt these still airs of literary sanctuaries. They lean principally to the “Bloody Shirt” stuff. Soldiers of the Spanish-American imbroglio usually thumb over works bearing on the Philippines. Elderly women, in nine cases out of ten, pore over religious books.",
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          "text": "A used-book store has been opened on the first floor at Central High School, with members of the Friendship Club, a high school social organization, acting as book “brokers.” Students desiring to sell used books turn them in at the store, with a specified price, the store functioning as a clearing house.",
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          "ref": "1931 May 23, Olive Roberts Barton, “Your Children”, in The Bristol News Bulletin, volume 5, number 2101, Bristol, Va.–Tenn., section “No Cars Then”, page six, column 2:",
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          "ref": "1994, George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940, BasicBooks, →ISBN, page 449:",
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          "ref": "1996 October 14, Kenneth L[awrence] Fisher, “Why the rich get (relatively) poorer”, in Forbes, page 359:",
          "text": "This issue, I urge you to visit a used-book store. It can refer you to a bookfinder, who can scrounge up old issues of The Forbes Four Hundred.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2018, Kathy Harrison, Prepping 101: 40 Steps You Can Take to Be Prepared, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:",
          "text": "Thrift stores, used-book stores, and yard sales are treasure troves for book lovers.",
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