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- So this nice hardback is a bit of a curate's egg, and a curator's egg too. The anthology might h4 KB (719 words) - 11:52, 20 March 2018
- The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for Children by W B Yeats, Noreen Doody and Shona Shirley Macdonald...practically ''becomes'' the titular lake. Oh, '''and''' the cover of this hardback edition is actually a fold-out poster of the frontispiece poem, which any Y4 KB (738 words) - 17:16, 23 April 2018
- ...I often found myself lingering over the details. The beautifully-produced hardback has a fold-out dust cover which becomes a poster of the tree with all its v4 KB (772 words) - 19:38, 11 March 2018
- ..., you wouldn't be able to ignore this book on the shelf! It's a nice large hardback so easy for younger toddlers to help with reading and turning the pages. I5 KB (828 words) - 16:06, 3 March 2018
- ...to Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere]] is a great look at all things paperback, hardback and cyber to read.5 KB (834 words) - 09:06, 9 October 2020
- ...nd active person, who happens to be in a wheelchair. The book has a lovely hardback cover, thick non-see-through pages, a good sized font and a decent amount o5 KB (824 words) - 11:31, 23 April 2018
- ...he Weekend Quilter" edited by Rosemary Wilkinson when it first came out in hardback in 1997.5 KB (863 words) - 11:11, 11 April 2018
- ...any of the stories as well. It is a nice quality book too. It has a lovely hardback binding, plenty of illustrations and covers a very wide variety of interest5 KB (837 words) - 08:38, 22 March 2018
- ...eview now carry links to Amazon for each format the book is published in - hardback, paperback, audiobook, and ebooks too, if they ever appear properly in the5 KB (889 words) - 16:23, 10 August 2020
- ...gether. It's the science of food combining presented in a very attractive hardback book, complete with recipes and excellent photography.5 KB (799 words) - 13:13, 10 April 2018
- It's a very appealing book, too, in a handy but chunky hardback format when I came to it, presenting the strip's bold, vivid, clean look, o5 KB (801 words) - 09:17, 14 March 2018
- ...g of any kind. In this compact paperback history, an updated edition of a hardback first published in 2004, he tells the story very readably from its foundati5 KB (800 words) - 13:45, 6 April 2018
- ...e still have the catalogue, updated and barely recognizable from the hefty hardback tomes that I remember from my childhood, still here to reflect the fact and5 KB (764 words) - 14:10, 30 August 2020
- Originally published in hardback in 1983, the book is given immediacy by the fact that many of the people Ca5 KB (880 words) - 13:05, 12 August 2020
- ...y, and those subtitles could have made way for an update since last year's hardback edition (although I only think it's out-of-date when talking of the only Br5 KB (819 words) - 10:14, 23 February 2018
- ...time when Branson has been less in the public eye and the borrowing of the hardback book might be a better bet than the purchase of the paperback.5 KB (889 words) - 12:00, 17 August 2020
- ...or of this book that I remembered from the press when it first came out in hardback, in 2014. And it is a newsworthy story, how a campaign by the Americans to5 KB (855 words) - 09:47, 27 February 2018
- This hardback is obviously aimed at admirers of Oakeshott’s work, and for them the book5 KB (841 words) - 12:39, 14 April 2018
- ...an architectural history of Berlin. We even have a description of how the hardback book has fared over the intervening ninety years or so, with blunted brown5 KB (781 words) - 09:02, 26 September 2020
- ...ill Secker for sending us this book which is also beautifully presented in hardback form.5 KB (941 words) - 15:01, 2 October 2020
- Like many reviewers of the hardback edition, I thoroughy enjoyed reading this book, a nostalgic excursion into5 KB (811 words) - 11:59, 13 April 2018
- ...y. I was slightly put off at the beginning by the length of the book - the hardback version has 400 pages and it looks really hefty - but because of the short5 KB (948 words) - 09:26, 8 March 2018
- ...rd of caution - about the size of the print. While I cannot speak for the hardback version, the font in the paperback is rather small, and the extracts from l5 KB (904 words) - 13:54, 9 April 2018
- ...es to this whole side of life science. Take the pictures out, shove it in hardback and it might get more respect, but this book is definitive enough for me, a5 KB (906 words) - 14:00, 15 April 2018
- ...opular and prolific author (his collected works, we are told, extend to 26 hardback volumes in all), he enjoyed moderate success throughout his life, but this5 KB (883 words) - 16:48, 23 September 2020
- ...n the role of Italian diplomat, Gregorio Casali, ‘our man in Rome’, as the hardback edition was titled. In the preface, Ms Fletcher explains that the average5 KB (898 words) - 08:32, 12 April 2018
- I don't often buy fiction in hardback: it's expensive and only the very best is reread. I do make an exception fo5 KB (931 words) - 12:10, 18 February 2018
- ...o the night. Well, I wasn't disappointed in this paperback edition of the hardback, already a best-seller in the U.S.5 KB (862 words) - 09:26, 21 March 2018
- The writing style is very good. When I read a hardback of my own I take the dust cover off, to keep things better preserved, and t5 KB (905 words) - 08:09, 26 September 2020
- ...l screen last year (shown to coincide with this book's first appearance in hardback), will need little further recommendation from me.5 KB (816 words) - 11:51, 27 February 2018
- ...he author mentions that there have already been a lot of changes since the hardback came out in early 2010, and of course it would have gone to press before al6 KB (998 words) - 11:14, 12 April 2018
- The hardback edition of 'A Blueprint for a Safer Planet' was published early in 2009 as5 KB (808 words) - 11:23, 14 April 2018
- ...of occasion, meaning this book comes as close as possible to deserving the hardback, prestige styling it's been given.5 KB (924 words) - 11:54, 24 August 2020
- ...version rather than hang onto physical copies. This time I'm keeping the hardback. Not only are Anthony's diary pages given a nice touch (that photocopied b5 KB (859 words) - 14:34, 23 August 2020
- ...he book, which comes brilliantly bound in magnetically-clasped wrap-around hardback form. Here is knowledge – the author certainly seems to have got his det5 KB (939 words) - 11:26, 11 April 2018
- ...y volume from the public libraries for my own reading when it was fresh in hardback, having read the rest - and now it's time for the paperback. There's someth5 KB (964 words) - 11:49, 8 March 2018
- ...ough - so good that at around 60 pages it would be worth the price of this hardback alone - is [[:Category:Rick Yancey|Rick Yancey's]] wonderful ''When First W5 KB (834 words) - 13:29, 12 August 2020
- ''Cosmic Imagery'' comes as a big, beautifully produced hardback, with a thick, glossy paper and with hundreds of illustrations, which bring6 KB (954 words) - 12:34, 6 October 2020
- As another slight aside, it's also notable that this is another beautiful hardback edition. It seems one of the laws of unintended consequences of the e-book6 KB (925 words) - 16:49, 23 September 2020
- ...g and I really needed some fresh inspiration. It's a beautifully-presented hardback book of the type which opens almost flat and stays there. I'm tired of havi6 KB (1,108 words) - 12:52, 5 March 2018
- ...ew are to be found in the "Pet Owner's Guide" series. They're published as hardback books and usually have a cover price of £5.99. Their guide to the Rhodesia6 KB (1,075 words) - 11:03, 14 April 2018
- ...e the reason for it is fully clear. That and the fact I'm talking of a £19 hardback is why it only gets four stars.6 KB (1,000 words) - 13:46, 9 May 2018
- ...iew copy. But finally a further hidden sign to beware of - this book was a hardback in 2008 under the name [[Tic-tac Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos by Justin5 KB (966 words) - 12:33, 16 April 2018
- ...thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408308517 hardback edition] is available. You don't get the tiny mouse (or the suggestions to6 KB (1,050 words) - 15:56, 12 April 2018
- |format= Hardback6 KB (1,061 words) - 10:07, 2 March 2018
- ...Graham was retiring. Initially she had difficulties persuading authors and hardback publishers to let their books be published in Puffin, but her success chang6 KB (959 words) - 14:38, 9 April 2018
- ...other chap are, and we're present every time that happens. Just open the hardback to page 133 and see the third paragraph be an unnecessary misquote of the f6 KB (1,042 words) - 14:47, 22 March 2018
- ...make a criticism it's that I think the book is overlong. At 644 pages in a hardback book it's almost the blunt instrument so beloved of crime novelists. I thin6 KB (1,082 words) - 14:03, 7 March 2018
- ...nk you should consider buying. There are a number of reasons for this. The hardback edition is presented beautifully. The dust jacket is orange with a cut out6 KB (1,035 words) - 13:30, 11 March 2018
- ...broadsheet you will know the format of this book from when it came out in hardback – indeed I recognised a great portion of the third part as having been ex6 KB (1,106 words) - 13:49, 7 April 2018
- ...i|1Q84 by Haruki Murakami]] was recently three volumes published as two in hardback, and all in one in paperback.)6 KB (1,113 words) - 10:50, 14 March 2018
- ...a fresh-faced long-haired youth to grizzled, premature old age, and in the hardback edition I am reviewing, colour endpapers with their contemporary illustrati6 KB (1,017 words) - 12:05, 26 February 2018
- Before I even opened it the book looked enticing – nice large hardback format (it's 10 by 10.9 inches) with a lovely matt feel to the cover and sh6 KB (1,115 words) - 15:21, 26 February 2018
- |comment=Eclipse - the next in the series is currently available in hardback. Review [[Eclipse|here]]. And we're told that there is a fourth on the way.7 KB (1,186 words) - 13:36, 14 March 2018
- There's a peel-off label on the front of the hardback book saying that it contains over 300 new recipes from Britain's best-loved6 KB (1,123 words) - 14:45, 3 March 2018
- ...left appear to have found it a disappointment. On its first appearance in hardback it was boycotted by the 'Guardian' and disliked by Hattersley. It is certa6 KB (1,024 words) - 10:47, 13 April 2018
- ...are occasion, three) statements to the page, in a very nice little cubical hardback. Now they're being represented in paperback, but you know what? They're sti ...interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. It's a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of book that you slip into a poc16 KB (2,615 words) - 15:36, 2 September 2020
- When the hardback edition was published in 2012, Margaret Thatcher was still alive. A minor7 KB (1,178 words) - 12:05, 25 August 2020
- ...hilsophy of putting readers in touch with authors, and of making beautiful hardback editions of book that will last for a very long time and make great gifts.8 KB (1,516 words) - 08:45, 8 April 2012
- ...and thirty-five years later we're delighted that it's been republished in hardback complete with the original black-and-white illustrations by Val Biro.7 KB (1,227 words) - 11:03, 2 February 2024
- At first glance, ''Sadie the Airmail Pilot'' looks really good. Solid hardback edition, quality semi-gloss paper, rich colours; and lavish, wonderful illu8 KB (1,298 words) - 11:04, 6 May 2018
- ...td. In 1994 £15.99 was rather a lot of money to pay for a cookery book, in hardback and even today I don't think it would be good value. Pitched a bit lower, i9 KB (1,613 words) - 13:47, 10 April 2018
- |summary= Horrible Histories' most horrible book yet. This large full colour hardback edition makes a perfect addition to any Horrible Histories collection, but9 KB (1,663 words) - 16:00, 24 February 2018
- ...of my earnings on joining the Folio Book Society and buying some beautiful hardback books. I think you'll see the logic of that. ;-)11 KB (1,965 words) - 14:03, 3 March 2018
- ...hile travelling or on holiday. I remember cycling through the Alps with a hardback copy of Gerald Seymour's ''Holding The Zero''. After a hard day on the roa11 KB (1,944 words) - 10:06, 1 February 2023
- The HarperCollins hardback edition (2007) can rightly be broken down into three sections: the intro (P14 KB (2,573 words) - 10:28, 11 May 2018
- ...e dog-eared. They found a good home with my daughter and I bought the 1990 hardback version which combined all three of the individual volumes into one 711 pag15 KB (2,703 words) - 11:16, 2 March 2018
- ...xperience – it's there in front of you at just a click. However, a quality hardback, on nice paper and well-jacketed, is a thing of beauty. And the Kindle can'16 KB (2,866 words) - 16:18, 17 November 2011
- OK... let's get one thing clear. This is not "a handbook". A hardback volume, at just under A4 plan, and approximately 900 pages... it weighs in14 KB (2,441 words) - 14:20, 12 April 2018
- ...miscellany. And there are the paperback releases to fit in, as well as the hardback. In April 2010, a new book with OUP will appear: ''Cows in the Maze''. I'd16 KB (2,796 words) - 19:32, 18 November 2009