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hardcover

[ hahrd-kuhv-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material:
Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.

bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material:
a hardcover series.
noting or pertaining to hardcover books:
hardcover sales.

First recorded in 1945–50; hard + cover

Knopf has sold more than 400,000 copies, and the book has never been out of print in hardcover or paperback.

He wrote a few more paperback originals, two of them westerns, then sold The Moonshine War to Doubleday in hardcover.

If a myth is built around an author, her most intimate thoughts become worthy of a hardcover.

The e-book, paperback, and hardcover were merged, for young adult and middle grade.

Didion will soon publish her book in hardcover and has already benefited from his review.

This electronic edition is derived from a later hardcover reprint.

Solo girls with hardcover sketch books and vintage clothes home-tailored to a nice fit.

A list of all obtainable addresses of the publishers of hardcover books mentioned in the Checklist.

This book is available in both a hardcover and paperback edition.

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