yellow-back

What I am saying is that when it comes to telephone book delivery, it is nothing short of a miracle: we go to sleep with a dog-eared book one night, and in the morning, a glossy yellow-back greets us like a golden goose egg, right up the driveway.

Made in USA. America's Most Enduring Industry. 2009

The driver, magnificently deaf to the shouts and curses of would-be passers-by and the pleas of beggars alike, held a cigarette in one hand and a yellow-back novel in the other.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

The driver, magnificently deaf to the shouts and curses of would-be passers-by and the pleas of beggars alike, held a cigarette in one hand and a yellow-back novel in the other.

O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

The impassive door guard got up from his chair and his yellow-back novel to unlock the wide door for me.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

The impassive door guard got up from his chair and his yellow-back novel to unlock the wide door for me.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

The impassive door guard got up from his chair and his yellow-back novel to unlock the wide door for me.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995

He pulled out a bill -- a yellow-back -- and Andy saw Mortimer take it from his shaking fingers.

Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery Roy Eliot Stokes

For a moment Toddles glared at the yellow-back, then a thrill of unholy glee came to Toddles.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

Time and again we turned for solace to our library, a yellow-back, twenty-page, United States Government pamphlet on Cornstalk Disease of Cattle.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

More remarkable still, the Cambridge History of English Literature lists backwoodsman, know-nothing and yellow-back as English compounds, apparently in forgetfulness of their American origin, and adds skunk, squaw and toboggan as direct importations from the Indian tongues, without noting that they came through American, and remained definite Americanisms for a long while.

Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England Henry Louis 1921