leather-bound books

Hide-wrapped reading material

Books with covers made of leather, typically suggesting quality, tradition, or antiquity.

Leather binding was standard for durable books before the nineteenth century; today it signals prestige or collectibility.

The library's leather-bound books lined the mahogany shelves.

He inherited a set of leather-bound classics from his grandfather.

Opposites
binding material and quality

leather-bound bookspaperbacks

Books with flexible covers

pulp novels · pocket books

format and medium

leather-bound bookse-books

Electronic publications

audiobooks · PDFs · blog posts · web content

cultural and class associations

leather-bound booksdime novels

Cheap sensational 19th-century fiction

pulp fiction · penny dreadfuls · airport novels · comic books · tabloids

Family

leather, bound, books, leathery, booked, booking, bookish, booklet

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G