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What (who) is hardback - definition

BOOK BOUND WITH A RIGID PROTECTIVE COVER
Hardback; Hardbound; Hardcover book; Hardbound book; Hardcover Book; Hardcovers; Hardback book; Trade Hardcover; Trade hardcover; Clothbound; Hardcover edition; Hard Cover; Hard cover
  • A typical hardcover book (1899), showing the wear signs of a cloth cover over the hard paperboards

hardback         
(hardbacks)
A hardback is a book which has a stiff hard cover. Compare paperback
.
His autobiography has sold more than 36,000 copies in hardback.
N-COUNT: also in N
hardback         
¦ noun a book bound in stiff covers.
hardcover         
(hardcovers)
A hardcover is a book which has a stiff hard cover. Compare softcover
. (AM; in BRIT, use hardback
)
N-COUNT: also in N

Wikipedia

Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) 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 identified by the abbreviation Hbk.

Examples of use of hardback
1. Some where cheerfully taking handfuls of well–bound hardback books.
2. Only about 3,000 hardback and 10,000 softback copies of each were bought.
3. In reality, the ‘bombs‘ were hardback books – with ‘This is a bomb‘ written on them.
4. The redesign comes two decades after the EU burgundy passport replaced Britain‘s former blue hardback version.
5. CQ‘s entry –– at a comparatively svelte 1,240 pages –– is $75 in paperback and $115 in hardback.