1948, Dan Wickenden, Tobias Brandywine"I feel that a book shop should be more, well, booksy."
1955, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, The guardians"Booksy talk?" Quail was amused by this not entirely felicitous apology. "But my dear young man, you were as booksy as any of us...
1972, John Braine, The queen of a distant countryAnd he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller.
