chapbook

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  1. noun A small book or pamphlet containing poems, ballads, stories, or religious tracts.

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  • In which Bill attempts to convince you to order his brand-new six-pack chapbook—only five bucks!—and a definition for the term "chapbook" itself is sought.
  • He's also working with artist Lisa Snellings-Clark on a chapbook, the title of which will probably be Strange Birds. —  FSF - May2006
  • Published as a chapbook a year later, "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" became a landmark critical essay, one of the pieces that made Le Guin's reputation as a critic of the field as well as one of its most admired practitioners, and it remains a touchstone for writers of fantasy today At least it should remain a touchstone, because in its 5,000-odd words it contains some of the most percipient advice and analysis ever offered. —  FSF - March2006
  • The authors here—including such luminaries as Melanie Tem, Chet Williamson, and Joel Lane—have firm and sensitive fingers on the pulse of twenty-first-century society, and succeed in invoking shivers and awe that will compete with headlines any day Single-Author Collections Heather Shaw craftily offers us both allegory and naturalism, symbolism and precisely observed reportage in her collection When We Were Six (Tropism Press, chapbook, $5.00, 52 pages, ISBN unavailable). —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • At one time a project such as this could only have come from the specialty press as some sort of a chapbook (and this particular one still might), but it would have been a limited edition, more expensive than the $4.95 being charged here, and would have quickly become a collectible, with the usual jacked-up prices collectibles acquire. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 03 - March 2002
 

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

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