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Word: yellowbacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Yellowback, with Macdonald Carey, Walter Abel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 26, 1952 | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Trademark of Infamy. The first dime novel that really cost a dime was published by Beadle in 1860. Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter came out in the yellowback that was to become the trademark of infamy to U.S. parents. A few months later came Edward S. Ellis' Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier which sold like dollar bills, 40,000 copies in the first few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yellowbacks | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

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