When I first saw this word, I immediately thought of bibliophile.  And while it has the same root, the bibliophile would be the person who would buy books, because he has a great love of books and reading.  

And then there's biblioteca ISpanish for library), bibliotheca (Greek word for library), bibliotheque (French for library, and Bibliothek (German for library), and I'm sure there are many more which are all using the Latin root word for relating to books. 

4 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

I thought of bibliophile also.

But then pole came into play.

Recall those performers who juggled spinning plates on the ends of poles? I would imagine doing it with oblong books would be nigh impossible. lol

Yes, I remember the performers spinning plates on poles on the Ed Sullivan Show, and I'm sure it would have been funnier if they'd used books.  

Of course the root word here comes from the Ancient Greek biblia, which had the literal meaning of 'scroll' (with a nod to papyrus which was used to make scrolls) and later came to mean 'book'. biblia became the English word 'bible' with its specific reference to the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Bible.

As @Bill W has commented it has, in the form 'biblio', become the base for quite a collection of words related to books.

Are there any other word that carry  the -pole suffix for "seller"?

13 minutes ago, Leslie Lofton said:

Are there any other word that carry  the -pole suffix for "seller"?

Excellent question @Leslie Lofton. I wasn't able to find '-pole' but I did find '-poly' (which is also from Ancient Greek pōléō, “I sell”) and is used in Economics with words such as monopoly, oligopoly, duopoly, etc.

2 minutes ago, Paladin said:

monopoly, oligopoly, duopoly, etc.

Ooh, nice one. I'd just assumed those all derived from -polis.

13 minutes ago, drpaladin said:

Crappoly anyone?

I thing Cacopoly would be a better use of pan-classicism, but the purist would prefer Scatopoly

A practitioner could be a Cacopolist or Scatopolist

I try to add a comment here as often as possible, for variety  or to inject some humor. Today, left me in the dust. My H.S. diploma long buried in some never again to be opened trunk(I picture the Lost Ark in the crate, as it is wheeled away, never to be seen again).

3 hours ago, drpaladin said:

I wasn't aiming for the more arcane classicism.

Crappoly will do nicely.

I won't go into details, nor point fingers, but some of us (myself included) are full of it.

3 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

I won't go into details, nor point fingers, but some of us (myself included) are full of it

I for one consider myself a bit of an artist with the stuff 

As I am a avid bibliopole, I wonder if my home may sink into the earth because of all the weight.

6 minutes ago, JamesSavik said:

As I am a avid bibliopole, I wonder if my home may sink into the earth because of all the weight.

If you buy and sell books and have that many, then you may be a bibliopole.  If you merely enjoy books and collect them, that would make you a bibliophile.  

4 hours ago, Bill W said:

If you buy and sell books and have that many, then you may be a bibliopole.  If you merely enjoy books and collect them, that would make you a bibliophile.  

I do buy some for a literacy charity that puts books into the hands of skool kidz.