yellowback

I got a ten-dollar yellowback from my wallet, gave it to him, and half a dozen others gave him money; one man gave him a gold piece.

Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

In literature we have to differentiate what is purely a commercial product like the yellowback novel, what is educational like the classic, and what is of the new.

A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

You saw what that fellow flashed, a twenty dollar yellowback, a word to Skippy and the Kennedy would follow.

Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915

Having first taken one twenty dollar yellowback from the well-padded book, he slipped it and the cigarcase into the inner coat pocket of the dead man.

Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912

Perhaps, to tell the truth, they had never before seen even one yellowback note, and hardly understood what they were.

The House Boat Boys George Rathborne 1896

When he opened the little rusty covered diary and those beautiful yellowback government gold notes fluttered to the ground there was

The House Boat Boys George Rathborne 1896

As he idly opened the book there was disclosed a little collection of genuine government yellowback bills, not one of which was less than ten dollars in its denomination.

The House Boat Boys George Rathborne 1896

During this time I scarcely knew whether I was on land or on sea - so anxious was I to clasp in my hands the little yellowback book, entitled "My Own Life, or a Deserted Wife."

My own life, or, A deserted wife, 1895

"Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was!

The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892