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2 unusual facts about Chapbook


Chapbook

Many of the surviving chapbooks come from the collections of Samuel Pepys between 1661 and 1688 which are now held at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell do not appear as historical figures in the Pepys collection, and Elizabeth I only once.


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20th Century Ghosts

In 2007, Subterranean Press produced a limited edition chapbook of "Pop Art" limited to 150 numbered copies and 52 lettered copies.

Alice Pike Barney

When Natalie wrote a chapbook of French poetry, Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (Some Portrait-Sonnets of Women), Barney was pleased to provide illustrations.

Charlotte Mew

Her first collection of poetry, The Farmer's Bride, was published in 1916, in chapbook format, by the Poetry Bookshop; in the USA, Her second collection was entitled Saturday Market and published in 1921 by Macmillan.

Christopher Kenworthy

He is the author of two novels, The Winter Inside and The Quality of Light for Serpent's Tail, along with a short story collection, Will You Hold Me? and the chapbook Sullom Hill.

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;Chapbook 1: "Gravity Isn't Working on Rainbow Bridge" by Jack McDevitt

Lavonne J. Adams

Adams was the recipient of the Persephone Poetry Prize for her chapbook Everyday Still Life, as well as the Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Chapbook Award for In the Shadow of the Mountain.

Lloyd Schwartz

Schwartz's books of poetry include Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and the chapbook Greatest Hits 1973-2000 (Pudding House Press, 2003), which were preceded by Goodnight, Gracie (1992) and These People (1981).

Matthew Cooperman

Includes a Residency Fellowshipat the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the E. Marvin Lewis Award from WeberStudies, the Wick Chapbook Prize from Kent State, the Billie Murray Denny Poetry Prize,the Jovanovich Prize from the University of Colorado, and five Pushcart nominations.

Sarah Lindsay

In addition to writing the two chapbooks Bodies of Water and Insomniac's Lullabye, Lindsay has authored two books in the Grove Press Poetry Series: Primate Behavior (a National Book Award finalist) and Mount Clutter.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

A sequel, Liquid Gold, and the chapbook novelette Hobgoblin Boots are also both set in 'Mocklore'.

The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich

Copper's preferred text was published as a chapbook in 1995 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 1,000 copies of which 950 were distributed to the guests at Bouchercon where Copper was a guest of honor.

Traveling library

Among its forerunners, can be noted the itinerant chapman and ballad seller, the religious colporteur, and the camp library of Napoleon I listed in Bourrienne's Mémoires.


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