Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Gracious Living

Amy Vanderbilt

Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1952

About this Item

Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1952. Hardcover. Edition / Printing not stated; later printing in 1952 (page 2 has a 1952 date and the copyright page has a 1952 date. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to board bottom edges; light sunfading to tinted textblock top. DJ: Good; Price Clipped; missing small pieces to top and bottom edges of panels; light wear to flap folds and spine shoulders. Black cloth boards and spine with gilt and red lettering on the spine. Red endpapers. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 700 pp tall 8vo. Here is a completely new, comprehensive, and eminently readable book for everyone on all traditional etiquette as it is practiced today, written by a foremost authority on social living. This book has the right answer for any problem of social usage that may arise. A brief glance at the selections from the table of contents, below, will give one an idea of the truly tremendous scope of this book; Weddings, Christenings, Debuts, Funerals, Dress and Manners, Home Entertaining, Household Management, The Family and Social Education of the Children, Correspondence, Your Public Life, Travel Etiquette. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. No International Shipping. Priority mailing will require additional postage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Gracious Living
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY
• Publication Date: 1952
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Fred McCarroll, Mary Suzuki, Andrew Warhol
• Edition: Revised Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy/management/leadership
  • Americana
  • Food/Cooking/Recipes