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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to softcover.

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  • For labs and path, I had a cloth-bound log book, where my tech simply checked off the results as they came back each day before handing the pile of reports over to me for review.

    Tickler Systems and Thoughts on Mandating the EMR aka TBTAM 2009

  • I love the Cabot cloth-bound cave-aged cheddar, which we use at Freemans and Peels.

    21st-Century Man 2011

  • The book will carry a suggested retail price of $35, but 1,000 cloth-bound and signed editions will be available for $350.

    Details of Bush memoir revealed 2010

  • Let us closely lie stacked two-tiered, backs touching, spine-edges spooning, soft cloth-bound and gilt-edged on some antique pleasantly dusty ledge.

    skateboard 2009

  • Terry Jones's "Evil Machines" and Tibor Fischer's superb "Crushed Mexican Spiders" are wonderfully handsome cloth-bound hardbacks with nearly 1,000 subscribers between them.

    Tis the Season to Give Bad Gift Sam Leith 2011

  • The book will be a cloth-bound hardcover, but Subterranean Press will also have 200 signed leather-bound editions too ... for a heftier sum.

    On My Radar: Joe R. Lansdale's "Deadman's Road" 2010

  • From under the stern-sheets he drew out a cloth-bound book.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • TRADE PAPERBACK When the cloth-bound trade edition and the trade paperback are issued by the same publisher, sometimes simultaneously, such issues can be quite a lot larger than paperbacks published for mass-market distribution if the same sheets are used.

    2009 July 14 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • The book will be a cloth-bound hardcover, but Subterranean Press will also have 200 signed leather-bound editions too ... for a heftier sum.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • It's "The Winter Men Case Files," a one-of-a-kind collection of character designs and descriptions, project proposal, story notes, and an Issue 1 script, collected in a custom-made cloth-bound binder signed by Lewis, Leon and editor Will Dennis.

    Attention fans of The Winter Men: Bid on this | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

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