[
US
/ˈhɑɹdˌbæk/
]
[ UK /hˈɑːdbæk/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːdbæk/ ]
NOUN
- a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers
ADJECTIVE
-
having a hard back or cover
hardback books
How To Use hardback In A Sentence
- His second book came out in hardback last month.
- Some are important reference books; some are expensive hardbacks; some were presents.
- A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
- His second book came out in hardback last month.
- Smaller shelves for hardback fiction. Times, Sunday Times
- All books are in good condition, hardbacks as well as paperbacks.
- Publishers are betting that we consumers will not notice this decline in hardback quality but that we will note the closing price gap between discounted hardbacks and regularly priced paperbacks.
- Our hardbacks are all sewn, on quality papers, with a variety of covers: you can choose book cloth, full leather, or quarter- and half-bound editions of leather and hand marbled paper.
- For Bittman fans, it's a good approach to a cookbook: an enormous hardbacked monster of a book, 1000 recipes from everywhere, and especially useful if you've got ingredients but no specific direction you want to go. Sunday is Food Day: Vichyssoise
- Companies that care about the packaging often liken themselves to book publishers, who know a small number of people will pay a premium price for a hardback. Times, Sunday Times