Book of Books
Example Sentences
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An aging beatnik with a ragged knapsack plunked down next to me in the Haufbrauhaus and started raving about the "book of books."
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2015
By such signs and tokens, this book, for an English-speaking person marooned in the middle of the 20th Century, would be the book of books for him to have along.
From Time Magazine Archive
This reminds me, by the way, of a portrait which H. F. once drew of the author of 'Happy Thoughts' as a frontispiece to a new edition of that humorous book of books.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry
I believe that the literary art was the only one in which he did not claim proficiency, and that was a pity, because Powers's autobiography would have been a book of books.
From Hawthorne and His Circle by Hawthorne, Julian
But the works and all therein were already a kind of new Bible to him; a book of books, which he must learn by heart.
From The Great Hunger by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
