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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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chap-book pamphlet of popular literature formerly hawked by itinerant dealers. XIX. f.
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Chapbooks and Traditional Drama Part II: Christmas Rhyme Books.(Review)
Magazine article from: Folklore; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...nineteenth centuries, chapbooks had some part to play...clear. From where did chapbook printers get their texts...surviving example of a chapbook containing a traditional...was to relate these chapbooks into family groups and...provide a lineage for each chapbook within the group. The...
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Chapbooks Now. (Notes & Comments).
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...was designed with chapbooks in mind, and has been...writers whose use of the chapbook exemplified its new...Ginsberg's and Dorn's chapbooks notable, however...poets, however, the chapbook format meant not only...approximately 25 pages. Three chapbooks landed in our mailbox...
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J.L. Hammett Co. and Great Source Division of Houghton Mifflin Form Alliances With Chapbooks.com to Enable Classroom Publishing.
Business Wire; 9/26/2000; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2000 Chapbooks.com (http://www.chapbooks.com) announced today the formation of strategic...professional-quality classroom publications. Chapbooks.com's online service makes it easy for...
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The Peace Egg Book: an Anglo-Irish chapbook connection discovered. (Research article: focus on traditional drama).
Magazine article from: Folklore; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the importance of the chapbook in linking together Irish...Lancashire traditional play chapbooks. Introduction Since...of Alex Helm's The Chapbook Mummers' Play in 1969...commercially produced chapbooks containing traditional...
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Small chapbooks make a big impression.(Field Notes)(poetry chapbooks)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Four new poetry chapbooks published in Massachusetts...pleased to introduce their chapbooks. Kathleen Aguero, in...Mammogram" make this chapbook a stand-out. Aguero...2008 Slappering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, A Thirst...
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Students celebrate rural poetry with reading, chapbook and CD
Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press; 9/3/2006; 518 words
; ...top 10 student poets published in the chapbook and CD are: Timothy Weeks; Angela Protzman...Featured student poets published in the chapbook and CD include: Cierra Adkins, Central...Jordan Wandfluh, Savannah High School. A chapbook and CD, featuring the top students...
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Other print tradition: essays on chapbooks, broadsides, and related ephemera.
Magazine article from: Ethnologies; 1/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...s Travels as Folktales, A Chapbook-Inspired Inquiry," p...vague category that includes chapbooks, broadsides, photocopy...narrow (English and American Chapbooks and Broadsides), but even...on Pakistani and Egyptian chapbooks are detailed and fascinating...
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Schizo-Latte: #14 in the Pocatello Blend Chapbook Series.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch; 4/1/2005; 677 words
; ...14 in the Pocatello Blend Chapbook Series Douglas Airmet and...ID 83295-4966 No ISBN Chapbook at $3 plus $1 mailing rate US Each chapbook in the Pocatello Blend series...in each of the fourteen chapbooks so far, Blue Scarab Press...
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E&H Professor Releases Third Chapbook Collection of Poems
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 1/30/2009; 578 words
; ...Felicia Mitchell has just had her third chapbook collection, The Cleft of the Rock...first-prize winner of the Talent House Chapbook Competition. Poet Marilyn Kallet says...Georgetown, Kentucky. In addition to the Chapbook Series, it publishes the New Women...
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an accumulated retreat: four chapbooks from BookThug
Magazine article from: Antigonish Review; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; an accumulated retreat: four chapbooks from BookThug Retreat Diary by Margaret...staples." Starting to publish poetry chapbooks under the imprint Boondoggle Books...from 26 or 52 copies to 100 for the chapbooks (a number of which have already...
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Chapbook Literature
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...million copies of 336 chapbook titles were published...titles in 1914. The chapbooks were usually written...subjects of commercial chapbooks for most of the...large share of the chapbook market. Lurid tales...successful commercial chapbook publisher, Ivan...of the commercial ...
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Chapbooks
Book article from: American Eras
...turned out “chapbooks,” small...1676, and an English chapbook relating a robbery titled...Dalton. With a stock of chapbooks in hand, Whitcomb walked...1816. Another popular chapbook was the Famous History...to affairs of state. Chapbooks were perhaps the most...
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chapbook
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
chapbook one of the pamphlets formerly sold in Europe and America by itinerant agents, or "chapmen." Chapbooks were inexpensive—in England often costing only a penny—and, like the broadside, they were usually anonymous...
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Shipton, Mother
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...These alleged prophecies occurred in a chapbook pamphlet published in 1862 by the bookseller...that they were reprinted from an earlier chapbook by Richard Head titled The Life and Death...series, vol. 9.) Richard Head's chapbook of 1684 contains an undoubtedly imaginary...
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Publishing Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...popularity, while among those of modest means almanacs and chapbooks were more common. Benjamin Franklin's (1706 –...published in Philadelphia in several editions from 1732 to 1764. Chapbooks typically contained a popular story illustrated with woodcuts...
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