A dust jacket is the removable paper cover on a hardback. Keep the dust jacket.
It was originally thrown away, which is why an early one can be worth more than the book. A dust jacket carries the design, the blurb and the price, and none of it is on the book itself.
1noundust jacketThe removable paper cover on a hardback.
“The dust jacket was torn and the book underneath was perfect.”
dust jacket is a cover.
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