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Definition of Best seller
1. Noun. A book that has had a large and rapid sale.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Best Seller
Literary usage of Best seller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1911)
"Obviously being a "best seller" does not make a book literature. ... Fifteen years
after Victor Hugo's Les Miserables was the "best seller" of its day, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... the best seller that the whole country is chuckling over. You are safe in
pushing this novel because everyone loves Lincoln and this story, ..."
3. The Secret Book by Edmund Lester Pearson (1914)
"CHAPTER XI How TO WRITE A "BEST-SELLER" The night the Club met at Bronson's I
was the last to arrive. As I came in, two or three of the men hailed me with a ..."
4. City Types: A Book of Monologues Sketching the City Woman by Marian Bowlan (1916)
"... THE best seller CHARACTER: MATTIE McBEAN, seasoned saleswoman of fable and fancy.
SCENE—Third table between the rubber plant and the paper napkin stand ..."
5. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1914)
"Now, if we could be sure that the six volumes that make up the current year's "best
seller" list really were a measure of the average standard of taste in ..."
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