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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a book of a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be used in a context where you are trying to describe a specific type of book, but it requires additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "I found a book of a genre I had never read before."
Alternatives: "a book about" or "a book on".
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We might get a book of a film.
Suffice to say: here's a book of a lifetime that makes you walk for a lifetime.
I had no such book in mind nor was it a book of a kind I was looking to write.
I just finished a book of a hundred and one stories, called "Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day".
Then the comment: "There exist also many books of his in the vernacular, full of jokes and vanities; for example a book of a hundred tales..."...
"I became nothing but a hostage to the 'demonic image' first concocted in a book of a certain unscrupulous scribbler, and then repeated on the silver screen," the note said.
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Place is a resonant character in "A Book of Secrets".
I signed a contract to do a book of cartoons".
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