Correct Social Usage: A Course of Instruction in Good Form, Style and Deportment: Vol 2

The New York Society of Self-Culture, New York. 1909. Hardcover. 12th Revised Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light wear to head, tail, and tips; light loss of color in spine title. No DJ. Green cloth boards with continuous green grained overlay on the spine with white lettering on the spine; title and decorations on front board; oval paste-on picture on front board. Green cupid design endpapers. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. Frontispiece group photos of the authors. 610 pp 8vo. Before Emily Post was on the scene, books like this one were the next best thing for someone to learn how to act in public and present themselves at all social and dinner functions. Chapters include Ceremonious Occasions; Entertainments, Formal and Informal; The Home and Family; and Men and Their Manners. A clean very presentable copy.