Book covers

protective covering, often decorative, used to bind together the pages of a book

right|thumbnail|200px|A typical hardcover book (1899), showing the wear signs of a cloth A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be i

paper wrap for a book

English metaphorical phrase

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