🔤 Yellowbacks ✨

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pichli sadi ke saste peele zard jild wale rihaishi ya jasoosi novel

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yellowbacks

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DEFINITION

cheap, popular novels bound in yellow paperboards, widely sold at British railway bookstalls in the 19th century

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Travelers in the Victorian era frequently bought sensation yellowbacks at railway stations to read during long train journeys. Collectors today value well-preserved yellowbacks for their colorful cover illustrations and historical publishing significance. 19th-century publishers produced thousands of yellowbacks to cater to the expanding mass reading public. The library archive contains a rare display of Victorian yellowbacks featuring popular detective fiction. Literary historians analyze yellowbacks to understand popular reading tastes of the late nineteenth century.

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cheap novels dime novels penny dreadfuls pulp fiction

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hardcovers luxury editions