What is "dust jackets"

Usage examples of "dust jackets".

Also five copies of the first edition, with the dust jackets still in mint condition—.

It was that of a big man, lying on his side on the floor near the sofa, half-covered by gore-smeared book pages, book boards, and dust jackets.

Wexler was a tall, tanned, conventionally handsome man in his late fifties who looked like his dust jackets.

The room was so familiar, the overflowing bookshelves, a dozen original paintings that had been featured on the dust jackets of his novels, the couch that he had bought in anticipation of lazy plotting sessions but on which he had never had the time or inclination to lie, the computer with its oversize monitor.

Most of the books were paperbacks or -Reader's Digest- condensed books in hard cover, but there were a few interesting hardbacks, with dust jackets missing.

Kleveland, so Tommy did not even remove the summer dust jackets from his equipment.

The first part Writing for a Livingis for the cover and the half-title page, the entire title being for the full-title pagealthough the book jacket might read Writing for a Living in large letters, plus The Ungarnished Facts in much smaller letters, plus my name in quite large letters same size as the short title, or even larger, if publisher's judgment in dust jackets of my last several books is a guide.

Some of the bookshelves were splintered, and all the volumes were on the floor in mangled heaps of rumpled dust jackets and bent covers and torn pages.