Erasing unused, (never-to-be-used) images from the Library. How, please?

Is there a way to Globally-Delete a subset of, or all of, the images in the Library? I want to erase all images that are NOT being used in a Album, Slideshow, or Book.
I take many near-duplicate shots and later select only one or two for use. The accumulated never-to-be used images are becoming overwhelming. doing it manually will take many hours and there is no way to be sure that a Library image is not used in a Album, Slideshow or Book...at least that I am aware of.
I really do not need to keep 8445+ images in the Library
Many thanks,
Fred

Make a smart album - album is not any
and delete from there in groups of 100 or so emptying the iPhoto trash for each group - command-option-delete deletes photos from the library while you are in an album -- or you can flag 100 or so and control-option-delete deletes flagged photos
LN

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