Cases on two sides of the room contain art books in tooled leather bindings.

How about this instead: The leather bindings cracked beneath his fingers.

Her hands were sticky on the leather binding of the notebook.

I ran a curious finger over the row of leather bindings.

Hands shaking, she brushed her fingertips down the leather bindings.

I stared at the cracked leather binding of the book and shook my head.

And yet they continued to torment her even as she fought the leather bindings!

He didn't care what they were, so long as they had leather bindings and looked impressive.

They were all extremely old, of course, with worn leather bindings.

The body of the pouch was strengthened by leather bindings both at the top and bottom.