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What does half-bound mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word half-bound? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of a book) Having only the back and corners bound in leather
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There are 26 lettered copies half-bound in black Asahi cloth and hand-made marbled paper.
Book is brown leather half-bound, raised bands, gilt lettering, original owner's name blind-stamped in gilt at heel of spine, old book publisher's label on front pastedown.
Books forwarded in boards, and finished with leather backs and corners, are said to be half-bound.
Leather pieces pasted on the corners of a half-bound or three-quarter-bound book.
That is, it gets worn at the hinges and on the back, whether full or half-bound.
The paper or cloth which covers the greater part of the surface of half-bound books is usually inartistic and even ugly.

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