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- noun Plural form of
hardback .
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Examples
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I would like to tell Mr. Modesitt that I have graduated from reading used copies of his paperbacks, to borrowing the hardbacks from the library, to buying new hardbacks as they are published.
The Iceberg/Powder Keg « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Anyway, we also scored some good hardbacks from the cheap tables: Clive Barker's Mister B.
"I was friendly with this girl, who insisted on touching my face." greygirlbeast 2009
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I spent a couple of hours today sorting out my book-shelves – the ones holding the hardbacks, that is.
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I spent a couple of hours today sorting out my book-shelves – the ones holding the hardbacks, that is.
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When I moved I traded down on many of my backlist titles, my copies of Dracula and Tolkien are just paperbacks now, whereas before they were impressive looking hardbacks.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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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
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The advent of paperbacks allowed publishers to appeal to two classes of consumers: libraries and the "general public" -- with richer customers still buying the library hardbacks for their private libraries.
Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010
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These four 50-page hardbacks, published very early in the Tennant era, originally retailed for £5.99 each.
Linkspam for 2-7-2009 nickbarnes 2009
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The advent of paperbacks allowed publishers to appeal to two classes of consumers: libraries and the "general public" -- with richer customers still buying the library hardbacks for their private libraries.
Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010
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When I moved I traded down on many of my backlist titles, my copies of Dracula and Tolkien are just paperbacks now, whereas before they were impressive looking hardbacks.
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