Examples of use of second-hand bookshop
1. Indeed, sensations such as cracking open a brand–new hardcover or fondling the dog–eared corners of a favorite paperback in a second–hand bookshop die hard.
2. Avid readers and booklovers, all of them have been customers of an extraordinary second–hand bookshop, hidden away in the heart of Tel Aviv.
3. He experienced his greatest shock concerning Churchill ten years ago; in a second–hand bookshop in Oxford, he found a letter that the British Prime Minister had sent to Stalin, congratulating him on the offensive in the Karelian Isthmus, which began in 1'44.
4. One is the memoirs of the soldier, MP, man about town, gambler, duellist, and chronic neglecter of his unfortunate family, Captain Gronow – whose Reminiscences and Recollections, edited by John Raymond for Bodley Head, I found last year in a second–hand bookshop.
5. I would add another skill, summarised in a quote from Andre Gide, which I found while idling in a second–hand bookshop. ‘You who will come when I have ceased to hear the noises of this earth and to taste its dew upon my lips, it is for you I write these pages; for perhaps you are not sufficiently amazed at being alive; you do not wonder as you should at this astounding miracle of your life.‘ Beats a grade A in maths.