The phrase "a finished book" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a book that has been completed, either in terms of writing or publication.
Example: "After months of hard work, I finally held a finished book in my hands, ready for readers to enjoy."
Alternatives: "a completed book" or "a published book".
It was not like it was a finished book and I handed it to him.
It always strikes people outside the publishing industry as odd that it takes a year or more for a finished book to reach the market.
As I said, a finished book is just the best I could do at that moment in my life, and if somebody I respect, the way I respect David, wants to do something else with it, great, go.
The book is designed to be personalised on an iPad by the child themselves, rather than done as a series of data points by parents and presented as a finished book to the child.
You begin to change it and make it different without making it better, and that's when you simply have to call it done and understand that you will be haunted for the rest of your life by the notion that this rough draft was published as a finished book.
Partly I was reading as if I were an unfortunate editor in around 1990, wondering how I was going to tell Bolaño that this wasn't quite a finished book yet, that his plot led nowhere, that his characters kept trailing off into incoherence.
Initially I was only going to print one, as a novelty, to see my work in a finished book-format.
To play Pocket Tales, readers test their knowledge of a recently finished book by taking a short quiz on the Pocket Tales site.
Arthur's words were like the slamming of a thick finished book.
On May 28, each student who participated received a copy of the finished book.
And anyone who finds a mistake in the finished book will know it.
