What is "cheque books"

Usage examples of "cheque books".

The one factor which brought out the handshakes, the fountain pens and the cheque books was his formidable knowledge of horses.

There were also cheque books issued by the Royal Bank of Canada, Chase Manhattan, Westminster and the Dai-ichi Bank in Tokyo, a small brown pawn ticket, twenty used ten-shilling notes, a folded new manilla envelope, and a poor quality forged Metropolitan Police warrant card.

And all participated in a little dance together-a complex routine involving the manipulation of menus, bill pads, wallets, cheque books, credit cards, watches, pencils and paper napkins, which seemed to be hovering constantly on the edge of violence, but never actually getting anywhere.