The phrase "a recent paperback" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a paperback book that has been published or released not long ago.
Example: "I just finished reading a recent paperback that explores the history of art in the 20th century."
Alternatives: "a new paperback" or "a newly released paperback".
A recent paperback edition of it has sprung up in stores, and I bought it in an airport.
A Guardian review of a recent paperback version, translated into English by Maureen Freely, said that it "defies description".
Consult a recent paperback anthology titled "The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey," and you may read the ecstatic essay that the film scholar Annette Michelson wrote for Artforum after watching the film for the ninth time.
His biography dwells on the painter's starry pre-war social life in Paris and on the Lolita-like sexual element in Balthus's work (Penguin Books used a painting similar to the one above, though without the cat, in a recent paperback edition of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita").
But in a preface written in 1994 for a recent paperback edition Heller wrote: "Sooner or later, I must concede, Yossarian, now seventy, will have to pass away too.
A packet of public-relations material prompted by the recent paperback publication of his 1996 novel, "The Apprentice," quotes the Times' calling him "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney," which seems like an apt description: he appears absolutely sure of himself, and, whether by coincidence or as a result of the influence of his boss, speaks in a tough, confidential, gravelly rumble.
My edition, the most recent paperback, came out in 2011.
For those who want to get into the earthworm raising seriously, there are two recent paperback books that may be of help.
In the picture (taken by Leibovitz) that adorns some of the recent paperback editions of Sontag's books, the streak is all but absorbed into the silver of the mane that surrounds it.
See my recent paperback, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think.
An award-winning scientist and writer, Davis' recent paperback, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, includes stunning new information about the ways that public relations strategies have undermined public health.
