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Emily Post's Etiquette
by Post, Elizabeth L
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. Classic book of manners, the last before the great cultural changes of the '70s, nicely inscribed by a mother to her daughter, just turned 16. Stout hardcover, full blue cloth gilt titling. Light wear to book, gift note on free endsheet; jacket shows edgewear & light chipping, two-inch tear to rear panel; couple of tiny stains to page edges. Text clean; xi, [3], 721 pages; index, a few figures.. Twelfth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- q0143os
- Title
- Emily Post's Etiquette
- Author
- Post, Elizabeth L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Twelfth Edition
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Manners, Social Conventions, Modern Living, Weddings, Parties, Propriety
- Size
- Large Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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