half-leather
a type of half-binding in which the backs and corners of a book are bound in leather
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How to use half-leather in a sentence
The natives manage to hop over it now and then; they are about half leather anyhow, and the other half appetite.
Summer Cruising in the South Seas | Charles Warren StoddardIf bound substantially in good half-leather, with leather corners, the cost is reckoned at 1s.
A Book for All Readers | Ainsworth Rand SpoffordThe natives manage to hop over it now and then; they are about half leather, anyhow, and the other half appetite.
South-Sea Idyls | Charles Warren StoddardIt was a ledger with a half-leather binding such as storekeepers use for accounts.
The Garden of Eden | Max BrandCloth must be used for sides of all books bound in half-leather or half-duck.
Library Bookbinding | Arthur Low Bailey
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