The Secretary's Handbook: A Manual of Correct Usage

The Macmillan Company, New York. 1938. Hardcover. Stated 5th Edition/4th Printing by copyright page. Stated Completely Reset and Revised. Book is tight, square, and does have the F/O address label, names, and pencil notes on the FFFP; pencil notes on the RFFP verso; and scattered pencil checks and marks. Book Condition: Good+; suntanning to spine; bumped tips; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges. No DJ. Red cloth boards and spine with tarnished gilt lettering on the spine and in she shadowbox on the front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 512 pp 8vo. This book was the bible of secretarial information and correctness. It contained not only punctuation and hyphenation but also regulations for telegrams and radiograms. This book does not get into shorthand, but it covers everything else that an executive secretary would need to know to be highly proficient n her job. A clean very presentable copy.