sparsely furnished

For my living space all I require for furnishings are a bed and a bookcase.

well worn

When perusing another person’s bookcases, I always look for the tattered dust-jackets.

measure of the man

He wanted to show me his wine rack, but I was more interested in seeing his bookcase.

dignified literary death

His aspiration was to be the last person ever crushed by a bookcase having fallen on him.

odd old bricks

A hundred years hence will all those author photos with backdrops of bookcases seem like the writers were posing in front of ruins?

bookcase or box

This is not a book for my bookcase, but for the box to be donated to a local booksale.

secret passage

Always there is a secret passageway behind the bookcase.

durable goods

Books are my durable goods. And my favorite major appliance: a bookcase.