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A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers
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hardcover
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Current hardcovers offer some tempting summer reads. ▪ Indeed, the book is even now still in W H Smith's Top 20 hardcover fiction bestseller list. ▪ Instead, the book has sold more than 1 million copies in hardcover and paperback. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hardback \hard"back`\, hardbacked \hard"backed`\, hardcover \hard"cov*er\ hard-bound \hard"-bound`\adj. Having rigid front and back covers, usually boards covered with paper, cloth, or leather; -- of books. Contrasted with softcover and paperback .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hardcover , hardback , hardbound , or case-bound book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with buckram or other cloth , heavy paper , or occasionally leather ). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: hardbacked , hardback , hardbound ] n. a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers [syn: hardback ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context of a book English) Having a rigid binding. n. A book with a rigid binding, often of cardboard or leather.
Usage examples of hardcover.
I already have thirty-eight pre-sold copies of the hardcover, with orders still coming in, and nearly that many of her backlist set aside.
Katie Leblanc marched inside and led the way to a wall of mahogany bookcases laden with hardcovers.
He sank down unseeingly into the large stufled chair near the bookcase, rose up slightly and picked up the hardcover copy of Scaramouche that was open, face down on the chair.
REDISCOVERY forthcoming from DAW books in Hardcover Book Two of The Mage Storms DAW BOOKS 9 I H c .
Elsie bravely insisted that I attend the American Booksellers Association Convention in San Francisco, where the DAW hardcover list was being debuted with special bound galleys, and where I was planning to meet Tad for the first time.
He fished inside the fold at the back and drew out the hardcovered little book.
All around the bed were more bookcase-crates, filled with paperbacks and old hardcover books, and on top of most of the crates were radios: clunky 1960 transistor radios, complicated receivers obviously made from kits, simple crystal sets, several Bakelite 1950s models, and even a huge Philco floor radio against the wall near the foot of the bed.
Softback in New York, hardcover in London, then softback London, hardcover New York.
Workshop at the University of Iowa all alone, completely out of print, having separated myself from my family on Cape Cod in order to support them, Sam bought rights to my books, for peanuts, from publishers, both hardcover and softcover, who had given up on me.
We Were the Mulvaneys sold forty million copies in hardcover and an additional eighty million copies in paperback, surpassing sales of her previous bestseller, Them, by almost thirty million copies.
You may consider this an update on my autobiography, Bio of an Ogre, which was published in hardcover in Mayhem (naturally!
The most recent newspapers are mounted in big hardcover bindings you sit at a big table to read.
A revised version by Joseph Mileck and Horst Frenz, Americanizing and updating the Creighton translation, appears in Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover editions from 1963 on, and in the Bantam paperback editions from 1969.
There's also a Hardcover Room, a Radio and Television Room, a Movie Room, a Pulp Room, a Comic Art Room and two or three others I can't remember.
They toted up production costs, laid these next to the hardcover sales of my previous four books, and decided that a cover price of $12.