Definition of "book-stall" []

• A stand or stall on which books, generally second-hand, are displayed for sale. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Indeed a point of gallantry was involved in my doing so, inasmuch as I had not left France alone, but had come from the prisons of St. Pelagie with my distinguished and unfortunate friend Madame Roland (in two volumes which I bought for two francs each, at the book-stall in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, at the corner of the Rue Royale)."
• "Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, they have left no book-stall unsearched, no chest in a garret unopened, no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy"
• "He read the names of the novels on the bookstall, and bought one at last, to avoid being regarded with suspicion by the book-stall clerk."