Definition of "cloth-bound" []

• Having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to <contr>softcover</contr>. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "TRADE PAPERBACK When the cloth-bound trade edition and the trade paperback are issued by the same publisher, sometimes simultaneously, such issues can be quite a lot larger than paperbacks published for mass-market distribution if the same sheets are used."
• "From under the stern-sheets he drew out a cloth-bound book."
• "The book will be a cloth-bound hardcover, but Subterranean Press will also have 200 signed leather-bound editions too ... for a heftier sum."