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paperback|ˈpeɪpəbæk|
Also paper-back.
[f. paper n. + back n.1]
A book with a paper back or cover. Also attrib., and as v. trans., to publish in a paperback edition.
1899R. Kipling Stalky 35 There are a pile of paper-backs on that shelf. 1954etc. [see hardback 2]. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 12 July i/2 The revolution wrought in the world of books by the emergence of the paperback can best be measured by comparing a classical private library with a contemporary collection of books. Ibid. ii/3 In one way or another most English publishers have accepted, and come to terms with, the paperback revolution. 1960N.Y. Times Mag. 5 June 2 Has Emily Post been paper-backed? 1962A. Huxley Let. 11 Feb. (1969) 929 In this context see the list of 112 exercises in awareness..printed at the end of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (now in paperback). 1963Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 24 Nov. 23/2 They paperback their World of Art series at 18s. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) ii. xxxi. 347 The paperback, especially in its highbrow form, was tried in America in the 1920s and thirties and forties. It was not, however, until 1953 that it suddenly became acceptable. 1968Guardian 27 Apr. 7/1 The worse the rubbish the wider the market: trash is paperbacked in many languages. 1971Country Life 18 Feb. 381/2 His Highland Year..which is already in three editions and about to make paperback, is followed by Highland Deer Forest. 1971New Scientist 19 Aug. 433/1 It looks as if most people are going to have to wait for the paperback. 1973‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Answer xvii. 149 The paper⁓back rights..would pay for far more than Miss Pringle's customary inexpensive holiday. 1974Times 28 Feb. 15/8 Paperback rights bring {pstlg}27,000 bid... Hardback rights in Britain are held by Alison Press. 1975Bookseller 11 Oct. 2038/2 The book was called Harris in Wonderland, and Cape published it. It was adapted for radio, and paper⁓backed in Hungary, of all places. 1976H. M. Harrison in Aldiss & Harrison Decade the 1950s 12 With the coming of the paperback revolution..SF found new places to go.
So ˈpaper-backed a. or ppl. a., having a paper back, published in paper-back form; also (fig.), lacking in strength, feeble.
1888Kipling Soldiers Three (1889) 52 ‘Push, men!’ sez Crook; ‘Push ye paper-backed beggars!’ he sez. 1903Work 14 Mar. 89/3 (heading) Handy method of binding paper-backed books. 1909Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 610/2 The man then buys a paper-backed novel for fourpence⁓halfpenny. 1932D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase x. 116 One or two paper-backed books. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 12 July p. ii/3 American bookstalls and bookshops are nowadays crowded with solid, well made, often highbrow but still paperbacked volumes. 1968Guardian 29 July 20/8 Paperbacked D. H. Lawrence floods the bookshops. 1974C. Fremlin By Horror Haunted 58 Years of..reading of lurid paper-backed stories under the desks at school had not provided him with this sort of solid..information. |