ADJ.
present
VERB + HBK
head
HBK + NOUN
editions, james, pbk
adj
Abbreviation of hardback.
Hbk editions of pbk books on offer are available on request.
Undergraduate Algebra by C. W. Norman, Oxford UP, pp 416, £30 hbk, £15 pbk.
name
Initialism of Heartbreak Kid.
(The Bodley Head hbk editions present James’ work in the final form in which he published it in 1907-9, with the celebrated prefaces).