Crossword clues for hardback
hardback
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hardback \hard"back`\ n. A book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers; a hardcover book. Compare paperback.
Syn: hardcover.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context of a book English) Having a solid binding. n. A book with a solid binding.
WordNet
adj. having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover]
n. a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers [syn: hardcover]
Usage examples of "hardback".
The relatively few science-fiction books which appear in hardback usually appear in small printings and few, if any, reprintings.
It resembled a hardback book: microcapsules embedded in each page changed color, depending what information was loaded into it at the time.
Ellis had made his rules very clear-no Alexander, no hardback or multi-book contract.
Triumph Bernard Cornwell The magnificent new novel in the bestselling series, available in hardback from Harper Collins India, 1803.
She thumped a hand down on the thick hardback book lying on the glass topped coffee table.
Soggy paperbacks, drenched calfskin and pulpy wet hardbacks dripped in every nook and cranny.
It resembled a hardback book: microcapsules embedded in each page changed color, depending what information was loaded into it at the time.
Seated in, and handcuffed to, a hardback chair off by himself was Shriman Vespal, looking haggard and gaunt, dark circles under his darker eyes.
It was The Little Magazine's plum job, often squabbled and feebly brawled over: he who wrote the batched fiction review ended up with perhaps a dozen new hardbacks to sell to the man in Chancery Lane.
She was in the process of reading a hardback, a Fay Weldon novel she'd nearly finished judging by the bookmarker.
But I remember the uproar attending the book's appearance early in 1990, when it sold nearly 250, 000 copies in hardback format during its first year and became the common coin of TV talk shows and articles in the popular press an amazing performance for a highly technical work, bristling with statistics, written in a dignified and daunting style.
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.
She pushed the garment bag aside and wrestled a hardback book from an outer pocket of the duffel.
There were two hardbacked chairs drawn up on the policemen’s side of the desk.
He had once hurled an entire stack of hardbacks and a water carafe at a Runewind imposter.