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The phrase "a previous book" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a book that was published or written before the current one being discussed.
Example: "In her latest novel, the author builds on themes introduced in a previous book."
Alternatives: "an earlier book" or "a prior book".
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It is a greatly condensed summary of a previous book by this author.
A previous book, How Institutions Evolve, received the Mattei Dogan Prize and the Woodrow Wilson Prize.
A journalist, Mr Wright won attention with a previous book, "The Moral Animal", on evolutionary psychology.
He began a previous book, "The Great Plains," with an ecstatic imitation of Walt Whitman.
He seemed more at home in a previous book, Saving Monticello, in which military history was of no consequence.
A previous book examined the effects of globalization on working conditions and labor rights around the world.
Larry Racioppo, born and raised in South Brooklyn, is the author of a previous book of photography, Halloween.
(Like "Under the Skin," a previous book of Faber's, it transforms a sci-fi setup into a spiritual allegory).
This article follows a previous book and review articles published by the leading author (Qatu, 2004, 2002, 1989, 1992, 1999 [1 5]).
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Franklin writes that Oprah Winfrey's promotion of Night came at a difficult time for the genre of memoir, after a previous book-club author, James Frey, was found to have fabricated parts of his autobiography, A Million Little Pieces.
Ms. Thornton, the author of a previous book chronicling the rave subculture, shadows high-level artists, curators, critics and dealers from studio to fair to auction to biennale.
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