The United States Air Force Academy's First Twenty-Five Years: Some Perceptions

boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.

jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book

tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.

8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.. Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.

buckram : A cloth made of cotton or linen which is used to cover a book.

rebound : A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.