cloth bound

Textile-covered book edition

Cloth bound describes a book with covers made of fabric-wrapped boards rather than paper or leather.

The binding style, common for hardcover editions, suggests durability and quality: a beautiful cloth bound first edition.

Also written as cloth-bound or clothbound.

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linen · buckram · embossed · dustjacket · pressed · sewn · boards · cover · fabric · vintage · library · antique · book collector · tooled · binding · pages · muslin · canvas

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book binding material

cloth boundpaperback

Book with flexible cover

softcover · leather bound · plastic cover

book format/edition type

cloth boundtrade paperback

Larger-format softbound book

pocket edition · cheap edition · paperback · softback · airport novel

Family

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G