|
|
Definition of Book fair
1. Noun. Fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books.
2. Noun. Bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause.
Definition of Book fair
1. Noun. A public event at which books are sold, often featuring appearances by authors. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Book Fair Pictures
Click the following link to bring up a new window with an automated collection of images related to the term: Book Fair Images
Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Fair
Literary usage of Book fair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"If our publishers have stocks of our classics unbound they might with advantage
offer them at the book fair in paper covers. But there is also an expanding ..."
2. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
""The Government strongly objects to the presence of the GALZ stand at the Book
Fair which has the effect of giving acceptance and legitimacy to GALZ," the ..."
3. The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore (1900)
"At the time Estienne thus described it, the book- fair of Frankfort, as we have
seen, had long reached a position of paramount importance to the literary ..."
4. Growing Readers: Units Of Study In The Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins (2004)
"Our time at the book fair was just ... I imagined the book fair from his perspective.
It must be overwhelming for some children to Chapter 5: Refers l/se ..."
5. Fisher's National Magazine and Industrial Record by Redwood Fisher (1846)
"The book fair opens immediately after the general fair. The book exchange, a
spacious and beautiful structure, admirably placed for its destined use, ..."
6. Spain in 1830 by Henry David Inglis (1831)
"Literature; Difficulties to be encountered by Authors; the book fair; Digression
respecting the Claims of Spain to Gil Bias; Public and Private Literary ..."
Other Resources Relating to: Book fair
