NOUN
- a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed
How To Use dust jacket In A Sentence
- Small, hardcovered, complete with a beautifully illustrated dust jacket. Narnia Fans
- Bool jacket : Protective wrap - round to a book, usually made of paper. Also called Jacket , Dust jacket.
- The package insert for Elavil was slipped into the dust jacket of Symposium in Blues, right next to the record sleeve, and when a doctor opened the album, he was greeted with the Elavil logo, along with a list of the symptoms of depression. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
- But the dust jacket of an old edition says pointedly that the book is “the story of a faithful Irish steam-shovel artist and his steam shovel — the beguiling Mary Anne.” 2007 July « One-Minute Book Reviews
- It is hoped that the author's creation will ultimately be wrapped in the appropriate robes of ritual: a stiff hardcover binding with a glossy dust jacket, acid-free paper and perhaps a colophon page.
- If the people want to do the book and do it right and I think they did a marvelous job at it, just the dust jacket and the "physicalness" of the book. The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
- Rather, it would seem much more felicitous to use it as a reference book (as the dust jacket itself notes), to be dipped into or browsed again and again.
- Presentation is austere: the hardback, which is matt black with silvered lettering, has no dust jacket, no tables, and no illustrations.
- Dust jackets for books were introduced very soon after dust was invented. Times, Sunday Times
- The dust jacket comes in two parts, a paper jacket and a transparent overlay.
