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hardbacks
n. (plural of hardback English)
Usage examples of "hardbacks".
He had once hurled an entire stack of hardbacks and a water carafe at a Runewind imposter.
It was a tiny shop, boasting an unenthusiastic window display of old hardbacks, mostly with a Scottish theme.
We decided that hardbacks would prevail over paperbacks unless the paperbacks contained marginalia.
The shelves hold an eclectic mix of expensive collectors' editions, popular hardbacks, paperbacks, and stacks of journals and papers.
One shelf would be for the books he was going to write: hardbacks in thirty languages.