chapbook
chapbook
Definition
chap·book (c̸hap′bo̵ok′)
noun
a small book or pamphlet of poems, ballads, religious tracts, etc.
Etymology: chap(man) + book: chapmen sold such books in the streets
chapbook
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- publish: BP began by publishing 35 64-page chapbooks on sf authors in the late 1970s in the The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today.
- have: He also has chapbooks published by Scars TV - USA.
Adjective modifier
- cheap: However, cheap chapbooks for children were what the firm was famous for.
- first: Her first chapbook, Blood Orange, was published in 2003 by Friday Circle.
- little: I did not really know what to expect from this little chapbook, one of several published by D Press.
- new: Just wanted to sing this woman's praises from the highest rooftop for her excellent illustrations on my new chapbook, Bloodshot.
Modifies a noun
- tale: For Houlston and others she, and her sister, produced numerous tracts, chapbook tales and longer pieces of fiction each year.
- version: They are from a chapbook version of the traditional tale told below and published in 1900.
- collection: Her first chapbook collection, Uncertain Age, is being published by Manifold this summer.
- form: There are many accounts of his prophecies printed in chapbook form from the sixteenth century onwards.
- romance: Chapbook Romances, International Bibliography of Medievalism, Leeds, 1993.
- publisher: New Hope International Magazine and chapbook publisher based in the UK.
Noun used with modifier
- poetry: Ally May will also be reading from his Sand poetry chapbook, The Ally May Book of Shapes.
- century: Smith, in turn, almost certainly lifted the material from 18th Century chapbooks and broadsheets.
Preposition: of
- poetry: John M. Bennett has published over 200 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials.
Preposition: for
- child: However, cheap chapbooks for children were what the firm was famous for.
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