Sentences with phrase «than dust jackets»
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books... so many pages to a person...
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And the real cover is more beautiful than the dust jacket.
Not exact matches
I was not planning to take a jacket, but the weather predictions indicated cooler weather than I was expecting, plus, umm, the Dust Bowl was named because of the huge windy dust storms in the Dust Bowl was named because of the huge windy dust storms in the dust storms in the 30s.
The dust jacket for the novel may also have readers expecting a more highly charged novel than this turns out to be.
Checking each of the books in turn I realized that without the covers and dust jackets — which felt as if they were half the weight of each book — I'm not sure any of the titles would have weighed more than a comic.
A website made from a basic, generic template (99 % of the time) is like finding a hardcover book that's missing its dust jacket (the old kind that had nothing more than a solid color and gold lettering on the edge).
A small paperback novel with no interior color will cost less than a hardcover book with a full - color interior and a dust jacket.
The collector's hardcover book with dust jacket includes the more than 370 full color plates of the artworks of Alexander Calder, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Joseph Cornell, Willem De Kooning, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Linder, Morris Louis, Claus Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Victor Vasarely, and Andy Warhol among many others.
Rather than being confined to a vertical column on the inside flap, the book's cogent description, written by Walker, is laid out horizontally and incorporated into the entire dust jacket, which unfolds into a poster - size sheet that on the reverse features a detail of one of her works, ``... (And Modern Black Identity).»
He held his breath, took off his jacket, folded it inside out, and than as the dust settled looked around for a place to hang it.