The phrase "a green book" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a book that has a green cover or is associated with the color green in some way.
Example: "I found a green book on the shelf that caught my attention."
Alternatives: "a green-colored book" or "a book with a green cover".
He has circulated a "green book" to ministers with tips on how to curb their departments' spending.
She leaned down to a lower shelf and pulled out a green book with a faded spine.
On his way south, Frank makes use of a "Green Book," part of the essential series of travelers' guides for African-Americans during a more overtly racist era.
This "Young Man with a Green Book" from San Francisco is attributed to Giorgione, as are two other portraits of pensive young men shown alongside it.
As an adult venturing out, I've come to figure out that adaptability requires assembling my own version of a Green Book, made in real time, generated almost accidentally by our collective need to share.
A New York Times book review of the directory in 1975 theorized that "either Mayor Beame was becoming irked at having people continually call 566-5700 ask ask why John Lindsay wasn't plowing the side streets out in Bellerose, or he simply wanted a Green Book with his name in gold on the cover, too".
Note to readers: A few weeks ago, I got an email inviting me to part of a Green Books Campaign sponsored by Eco-Libris, a for-profit enterprise that promotes books printed on non-virgin paper and funds the planting of trees in Africa and Central America.
From Corona's home and vehicles, investigators confiscated a green ledger book with the names of eight of the victims, along with an 18-inch machete, a post-hole digger, a wooden club and a gun. .
She returned a few minutes later with a dusty green book, "Organization Executive Course, Public Division, Volume 6," part of a series written by Hubbard that is used in the management and standardization of all areas of Church activity.
When Chris and his wife Emily needed a handyman, Andy passed along a recommendation from Judy's book and an idea was born: why not create a 'little green book' for busy parents everywhere?
The two people also said that in the exchange of e-mails, Mr. Goodman requested permission from Mr. Coulson to pay £1,000 for a classified Green Book directory, which had been stolen by a police officer in the protection unit.
