The phrase "beginning of book" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to the first section or chapter of a book. Example: "The beginning of the book sets the stage for the events that will unfold later in the story." or "I always get excited when I reach the beginning of a new book, eager to dive into the story."
When we read Hobbes we read only the very beginning of his discussion of the social contract, just a bit from the end of book one and the very beginning of book two.
Contents: List of members at beginning of book, Articles of Faith, Church Covenant, names of persons dismissed and baptized, church disciplinary actions, decisions regarding pastor's salary, reports of committee on delinquents, names of persons licensed to preach, reports from finance committee, decision to move the church from Arcadia to the western part of Newark (1864).
Because Maggie Stievfater told us, right at the beginning of book one.
You remember that we were given, at the beginning of Book II, a three-way distinction among goods.
This print edition of the Institutes is open to the same page – the beginning of Book Four – as the large manuscript copy.
Each of the four books opens with a large flourished initial; the one at the beginning of Book II is a littera duplex (7 lines), the one at the beginning of Book I, of the same type, is more elaborate (14 lines).
Most prospective book buyers will skim the beginning of the book to get a taste for what's inside.
Tunis says in a note at the beginning of the book that "all the characters in this book were drawn from real life".
Visit the very beginning of the book (where it deposited you at, when you first opened the book on your device) and begin to play the professional narration.
So wrote James Galvin at the beginning of his book, The Meadow, first published in 1992 and available since 1993 in paperback (An Owl Book, Henry Holt and Company, New York, $13).
We meet Ottar at the beginning of the book.
