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  • Dorothy L. Sayers's fat, black-bound Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, "Busman's Honeymoon" was one of the first I remember being given.

    England, My England (Never Having Been There) Alan Bradley 2011

  • The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.”

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Share your frustrations online as a teenager in paranoid schools patrolled by network Nazis thumping their copy of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) like black-bound religious texts, and you could end up in jail, or expelled.

    Miguel Guhlin: In Loco Parentis Miguel Guhlin 2010

  • The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.”

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • In the sitting room of his humble brick home, a black-bound copy of the Old Testament had been opened to the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 29.

    Deadly lure of the US leaves trail of tears across two continents Tom Phillips in Sardoá 2010

  • And what are these black-bound volumes with the gold lettering on the spine?

    Lovecraft And Me Sean Craven 2009

  • And what are these black-bound volumes with the gold lettering on the spine?

    Archive 2009-08-16 Sean Craven 2009

  • "It's unprecedented," said Jeff Matthews, who heads the County Board of Elections, a meticulously run but vaguely Dickensian place piled high with black-bound signature books.

    THE NEXT FLORIDA 2007

  • Bizot struggled to pull a small black-bound Moleskine notebook from the breast pocket of his blue jacket.

    The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

  • I found this out the first night we slept together at his shambolic Cairo flat – when I woke up around three to take a pee and discovered him in the living room, scribbling in a black-bound book.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

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