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Definition of Pocket book
1. Noun. Pocket-sized paperback book.
Generic synonyms: Paper-back Book, Paperback, Paperback Book, Soft-cover, Soft-cover Book, Softback, Softback Book
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket Book
Literary usage of Pocket book
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Picture Books: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books by James Baldwin, Oakland Free Library, Alfred William Pollard (1902)
"As has been already said, the date inside the pocket-book is 1699, but the accounts
begin on January 10, 1696, so that those of the first three years have ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... round London ' to Leigh Hunt's ' Literary pocket book ' in 1820. About the
same time Leigh Hunt visited Clarke at Rams- gate before starting for Italy, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1902)
"AN OLD POCKET-BOOK. WHEN a long-forgotten cupboard was turned out the other day,
a curious collection of old books came to light. ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1820)
"I did not mark it ; it was a pocket- book ot that appearance. ... Did you see
any thing taken from the great coat î—1 saw a pocket-book. ..."
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