The book was battered, its leather spine scratched and cracked.

The binding may also provide an impressive-looking leather spine to a book without incurring the full expense of binding a book in full or partial leather.

The dim light illuminated the gold lettering on the leather spines of his books, but the rest of the room remained in darkness.

"So do I." She went into the room and caressingly touched the leather spine of a book on the shelf closest to the door.

However, Mr. McMurray is experimenting with such binding skills as making leather spines, and testing different ways of gluing papers together.

The hardcover edition had a leather spine with cloth-covered boards.

I squatted, swept the dusty boards with my hands, felt a thick leather spine, found the lid, opened the top cover and tore out several pages.

The book-lined walls seemed to sigh in the shadows, leather spines shimmering.

The leather spines of books - Carlyle and Shakespeare, among others - had been glued onto the fronts of the cabinets there.

It was an old-fashioned box-file with metal clasp, leather spine, and boards covered in marbleized paper.