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  • In his paper, "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway," Rimm concentrated mostly on adults-only bulletin boards (the equivalent of X-rated book-shops).

    No Place For Kids? 2008

  • His books were published in such enormous numbers and so many different editions that they actually competed against one another in the book-shops.

    The Idealised and Naturalistic View of Reality: Early 20th Century German Literature Laureates 2005

  • There seems to be no authority for the meaning ordinarily assigned to libellis, "book-shops."

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • There seems to be no authority for the meaning ordinarily assigned to libellis, "book-shops."

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • There were the cabs and the awnings and the book-shops; the old men in black gowns billowing; the young women in pink and blue dresses flowing; and the young men in straw hats carrying cushions under their arms.

    The Years 2004

  • I had a charming flat on the Left Bank, near the university, between Luxembourg Gardens and those amazing book-shops along the Seine.

    The Dead House Linda Fairstein 2001

  • Those were days when the publisher Bennett Cerf could jest truthfully that in many states there were more blacksmith shops than book-shops.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • Those were days when the publisher Bennett Cerf could jest truthfully that in many states there were more blacksmith shops than book-shops.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • Being too poor to buy all the books required to satiate his hunger for knowledge, he would saunter about in the marketplace and book-shops, and peruse the books exposed there for sale, having probably made some sort of agreement with the booksellers, who may have taken an interest in the ardent student.

    Lunheng 1962

  • I have not seen it and do not know, whether it is still to be found in the book-shops, and whether it differs from the current text.

    Lunheng 1962

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