To this day almost every secondhand bookshop in Britain will have one.

This neatly ordered shop in central Victoria (Australia) This is my local secondhand bookshop.

But when I was about 13 I found a copy in a secondhand bookshop, and bought it at once.

The goddesses gather because, in Galway, a 10-year-old boy called Pidge has found an old manuscript in a secondhand bookshop.

He keeps a secondhand bookshop, you know, and he's positively insulting to customers who try to buy any of the books.

When my grandmother moved into a smaller place, Otto made room for Mildred in his quarters behind Papa's Armchair, the secondhand bookshop he owned.

It applies to most areas of economic activity, from heavy industry to prostitution to secondhand bookshops.

Indulge in further money-saving adventures by wandering down to Hay-on-Wye to plunder the town's secondhand bookshops.

It was in the front of Mr Browsers Secondhand Bookshop that I came upon Vyvyan Holland's memoirs.

Grammarians gathered in secondhand bookshops around rare copies of Varro's satires and Fabius's chronicles and hunted for copyist's errors.

I would drop into Mr Browsers Secondhand Bookshop, in Liverpool Street, Hobart, a few minutes before I caught my bus home.

I haunted jumble sales, I discovered secondhand bookshops, I stole my mother's library card so I could access the adult shelves.

But no more cheap and cheerful secondhand bookshops, their produce stacked high, reeking of damp, stained and dog-eared by previous readers.