What is "chapbooks"

Usage examples of "chapbooks".

Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.

Museum monographs and chapbooks, perhaps: removed for research, then not returned?

Oh, yesthat old Broadway Water Company survey and the Five Points chapbooks useful?

As he handed over the change and exchanged greetings, he noticed consciously for the first time the romantic novels discreetly displayed in plain covers on the bottom rack at the back of the stall, beneath the eyeline of innocent children and much lower than the racks of books and chapbooks of erotic pictures and fantasies, whose colorful covers were as vivid and public, and as cheerfully explicit, as the stained-glass windows of the meetinghouse.

There are currently six stories in the series, which appear as chapbooks or on CD-ROM, and full details are available from my Web site: www.

There in the Darkness is the longer of the two chapbooks, not only in page count, but also because the smaller typeface crams more words on a page--perhaps too many, depending on your eyesight.

PETER LOVESEY CRIME: Crime of passion PLACE: Surrey and France YEAR: 1985 BRIEFING: Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.

Corder Figure' PETER LOVESEY CRIME: Crime of passion PLACE: Surrey and France YEAR: 1985 BRIEFING: Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.

She read or had read to her his chapbooks preferring them to the Merry Wives and, loosing her nightly waters on the jordan, she thought over Hooks and Eyes for Believers' Breeches and The most Spiritual Snuffbox to Make the Most Devout Souls Sneeze.