The phrase "elegant book" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a book that is stylish, refined, or luxurious. For example: The antique store had a selection of elegant books, their covers bound in leather and gold detailing.
So will anyone who reads this intelligent and elegant book.
It's an elegant book with a perfect ratio of reportage, biography and criticism.
It makes perfect sense that Mr. Olney begins this insightful, elegant book with Steinbrenner.
And in this provocative, elegant book, it has found a new and lucid storyteller.
This is a very large and not overly elegant book; committing to it is like committing to a marriage, or to a car lease, or to climbing Everest.
His elegant book seems like a ruthless and skeptical analysis of something Paul Bowles wrote in "The Sheltering Sky," his famous novel about Morocco.
They live in Paris in an elegant, book-lined apartment where Anne's baby grand piano is a central feature.
Stay at: Collège Hotel (00 3347272 100505; college-hotel.com) is a former school revamped with sleek white bedrooms and an elegant book-lined lounge.
Two organizations are currently working on two very different but equally intriguing solutions that combine aspects of both mediums: Editis, a French publishing group, offers a vision of a sleek digital future populated with elegant book-shaped readers (as opposed to the tablet format of the Kindle) with touch technology.
"Smallpox is not at all a part of the standard teaching of the American Revolution," she says over a glass of ice tea in the elegant, book-lined house she shares in nearby Hillsborough with her husband, Peter Wood, a professor of American history at Duke University, and a high-strung Hungarian pointer named Kody.
Paradoxically, too, Bolaño's most explicit fables on the dangers of over-refinement are contained in a sequence of slim, elegant books, most of which have been translated into English by Chris Andrews.
