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chap·book  (chpbk)
n.
A small book or pamphlet containing poems, ballads, stories, or religious tracts.

[chap(man) + book (so called because it was originally sold by chapmen).]

chapbook [ˈtʃæpˌbʊk]
n
(Historical Terms) a book of popular ballads, stories, etc., formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars


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Failure is the first book in Delirium's Hardcover Chapbook Series, limited to 500 signed copies in a neat 4.
A part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus library system, Parallel Press began publishing poetry chapbooks in 1999 and has so far published twenty-nine chapbooks, one of the most recent of which is "Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets", an anthology edited by Elisabeth R.
Marv Gold's chapbook novelette, Wither, Thou Ghost is a supernatural mystery featuring Sherlock Holmes and offers a new take on Jack the Ripper, the perpetrator of London's 1888 Whitechapel murders.
 
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