The sergeant held up a dogeared copy of a disreputable magazine.

Duke cursed the day Earl had gotten his hands on a dogeared copy of Dianetics.

He went to his desk and pulled out a dogeared copy of the three-year-old dispatches.

Out of that work came a slim book, still in print, and no ghost-bird chaser is without a dogeared copy.

In her tote bag is a dogeared copy of the novel.

Missing from the scene, however, was Chávez's dogeared copy of the new constitution, written in 1999 to his specifications.

His first book was largely ignored until it came out in paperback, and then became a hit as dogeared copies passed from reader to reader.

My own dogeared copy dates from 1951.

He opened the left-hand drawer of his desk, removed a dogeared copy of a journal.

If you don't have a dogeared copy, get the third edition (Houghton-Mifflin, $16.95).