pbk

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  1. Abbreviation of paperback.
    Coordinate terms: hbk, ebk
    • 1987, British Book News, page 235:
      Shiach, Don Make the Grade in GCSE English (Make the Grade in GCSE) Teach Yourself Books/Hodder & Stoughton £2.95 pbk
    • 1992, Patrick Jones, Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual, Neal-Schuman Publishers, →ISBN, pages 92 and 200:
      Pbk all the way: Why create 500 copies of a list containing books for which there are only a limited amount of hardback copies? […] Weed books which are tattered, without covers, etc. Replace with pbk versions.
    • 2017, John Forrester, Laura Cameron, Freud in Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 241:
      Richard Slobodin, W.H.R. Rivers, New York: Columbia University Press, 1978, pbk version, p. 21.
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