half-bound

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half-bound - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Half-bound \Half"-bound`\ (-bound`), n.
     Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book.
     [1913 Webster]

half-bound - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  half-bound
      adj 1: (of books) having the back bound in one material and the
             sides in another