W & R Chambers Limited. Good+ in Poor dust jacket. 1928. Hardcover. A good hardcover in a poor price-clipped dustwrapper. The book is in blue cloth covered boards tanned to the edges and bumped/rubbed spine ends/corners, "Boy's Brigade" gift plate on the front endpaper (Glasgow 251st and dated 1936), toned lightly foxed pages soiled and foxed to text-block edges. The frail aged price-clipped dustwrapper is well creased/rubbed to all edges with small losses to spine ends/flap tips - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Attractive colour frontispiece and three mono plates by J. R. Burgess. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 15990
Title: The Hidden Face: A Story of Bohemia
Author: Ker, David
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Poor dust jacket
Publisher: W & R Chambers Limited
Date Published: 1928
Bookseller catalogs: Historical Fiction;

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Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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....
Dustwrapper: Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...