London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fair with no dust jacket. 1924. Later Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ, corners bumped and rubbed, some shelf and edge wear to boioards, marker pen initials to inside front cover, missing front endpaper and half title, gutter cracked at p224/5, slight foxing. ; Undated but assumed mid to late1920s. Assumed not first edition. Red glazed and embossed cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Reading copy only. ; 320 pages; A young girl, Margaret Verity, through her kindness, falls heiress to an immense fortune. But she is totally unprepared for wealth and high society and a girl that was once natural and unaffected becomes spoiled and 'modern'. Then her uncle decides to intervene to turn her back around by staging a fake kidnapping... .

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33351
Title: The Clouded Pearl
Author: Ruck, Bertha
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair with no dust jacket
Edition: Later Printing
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1924
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...