bookcase

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The Qatari plane has oversize leather seats and a faux library bookcase.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Restoration work was carried out on both the building and its contents, including rewaxing a rare Chippendale bookcase estimated to be worth about £20m.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

A wooden bookcase piled with works of pre-Columbian history, archaeology and artist catalogs sags in the middle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

What caught my eye was a bookcase set dead in the middle of the room.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney