The image of the tattered book lying beside the Bible came to mind.
One of Ezra's boys went inside and returned with a thick tattered book.
There is something so lovely about a tattered old book, especially one that's been in the family.
I tore into the tattered books on the library shelf.
I opened a tattered old book that I kept on the table next to me.
I was reading a tattered old book at impossible speeds.
He took the tattered book from under his arm.
"It is the most tattered book in my library," he said.
There were heaps of tattered old books and records left over from the last century.
He reached down and picked up the tattered book.