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By: N/A
Price: $100.00
Seller ID: 017286
Condition: Very Good
Original brown half bound with brown leather on spine and corners. Raised bands. 6 1/2 X 9 3/4 inches. 521 pages. Copy has the following plates: 30 black and white, 8 color, 2 green and 4 yellow. Copy has numerous black and white illustrations throughout including music. Foxing throughout copy. Several plates have spots on them. Marbled foredges. Spine has a few cracks, but fully intact. Corners are bumped and worn. No title page. Previous owner wrote in pencil on first page notes regarding plates. Still, a beautiful copy. Pages and plates are fully intact and complete. Binding is tight. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Bridgeport, Conn., Holmes & Edwards Silver Co.: 1931
Seller ID: 10515
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
14 pages; illustrations; illustrated paper covers (4 3/4 x 7 inch). Gives examples of use of silverware during various gatherings of people. ie. Luncheon, Unexpected Guests, Bride's Shower, Wedding Reception, Buffets, Sunday Morning Breakfast, Holiday Teas, etc. Lists essential service used. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chico, California,
Seller ID: 10754
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Folded into thirds (3 1/2 x 5 inch), title on the cover. Humorous account of Bar Etiquette for cocktail lounges - proper way of paying and ordering, proper way of talking to the bartender, level of voice, telling dirty stories and the use of four letter words. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Western Union.:
Seller ID: 12083
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
circa.1920. 24 pages; bound in orange paper (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch) with title on the cover with illustration. Inside are suggestions for phrases to be used when sending money orders by Western Union. Covers Birthdays, campaigns, Christenings, Holidays, engagements, Graduation Day, Mother's Day, Weddings, and Theatre Tickets. In very good condition. View more info
By: Arthur, T. S.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, John E. Potter and Company: 1856
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019947
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's orange cloth binding with impressed floral decorations in black on front and back covers. 5" x 6 3/4." 326 pages, complete. Ten pages of advertisements in the back for other books by T. S. Arthur. Gilt lettering on spine. Two former ownership inscriptions dated to 1878 and 1904. The one dated 1878 is on the front free endpaper and written in black ink: "M. A. Abbott from R. and M. Whitaker, Dec 25, 1878." The inscription dated 1904 is written in black ink two pages after the first one on a front flyleaf: "Presented to L. A. Abbott from her mother... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Schwabacher-Frey Company: 1942
Seller ID: 020135
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's beige wrapper. 3 3/8" x 5 1/4." Seven pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. This pamphlet contains rules of conduct and etiquette advice for officers working at the San Francisco Fire Department. View more info
By: Craigen, Joseph
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, George Sully & Co.: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7733
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
(1925). Craigen was a lecturer on Applied and Practical Psychology. The chapter of this book reflect on the postive nature of a smiling face and a pleasant personality. 81 pages. Attractively designed binding and dust wrapper. View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London, England, Bradbury and Evans: 1851
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019642
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's brown 3/4 leather binding with decorative gray-blue boards. Sixteen-pages, complete. Fifty-two additional blank pages in the back. Top edge gilt. Gilt decorative lines on front and back boards. Gilt decorative flowers and lettering on spine. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Pages are clean and intact except for very slight foxing. Boards and spine are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a British author and caricaturist who illustrated books for his friend, Charles Dickens. In this book, Cruikshank gives readers pra... View more info
By: Cumming, Eileen
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Meriden, Conn., International Silver Co.:
Seller ID: 10712
Condition: Collectible-Good
20 pages; drawings; orange paper wrapper with "Gump's" printed on the back cover (4 1/2 x 6 1/8 inch). Covers the various table settings for formal dining. To be used as a advertisement flyer for people buying silverware. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7734
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's dark gray cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Some light wear at extremities. The title translates into English as "The Art of Living Rightly" and a former owner has written that in ink on the title page. Former owner's signature on front end paper. These essays originally appeared in Harper's Magazine in Curtis's column "Easy Chair" and are on (as the preface says) "vital questions of hygiene, courtesy and morality." Bibliography of American Literature number 4409. 136 pages plus two pages of publisher's advertisements. View more info
By: Erskine, Mrs.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Sydney, William Brooks & Co.: 1911
Seller ID: 8008
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. From the "Introductory:" (Other etiquette books are of little use) ."to the ordinary Australian. Directions as to the proper mode of address to a marquis or minute descriptions of ceremonial presentations to the Queen's Drawing-rooms are of but little use in Australia. My intention, therefor, is merely to ffer a few simple rules for guidance in the difficulties which may crop up at any time in our every-day social intercourse, and in which a knowledge of the usual rules of etiquette may serve to smooth the path of the inexperienced." ... View more info
By: Hayve, O. B.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Boston and London, John W. Luce and Company: 1906
Seller ID: 15415
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's blue cloth binding with embossed illustrations in white on front and back cover. Rubbing and some loosening at spine. Unnumbered pages, printed in purple ink. Ilustrations throughout, listing of other volumes in the "Foolish Series" in back. Full title "Foolish Etiquette : a Mirror Wherein Any Fool May Find Clear, Concise and Conclusive Refections of Behavior Under All Possible and Impossible Circumstances." Unable to determine real name of author, as O. B. Hayve is obviously a pseudonym. View more info
By: Kumler, John M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, National Stunt Exchange: 1922
Seller ID: 14402
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
48 pages; drawings; tan paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inch). A collection of various humorous jokes or stunts played on other people as a group joke. Among them fake membership, speeches, awards, contests, and so on. Very good copy of the amusing pamphlet. View more info
By: Laneham, Robert
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, England, Chatto and Windus Duffield and Company: 1907
Seller ID: 11926
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
clxxxii, 87 pages; illustrations, folding map; index; bound in light green cloth with tile on the spine (faded) and bumped corners. Revised version of the Ballad Society edition of 1871. The letter written describes the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Kenilworth Castle for nineteen days, the 9th through 27th of July, 1575. Extensively edited by Furnivall. Presentation copy from the publisher and so stamped. View more info
By: National Auxiliary United Spanish War Veterans
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., The National Auxiliary: 1932
Seller ID: 019772
Condition: Fine
Original publisher's yellow wrapper. 3 1/4" x 6." Thirty-one pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are clean and intact except for very minimal wrinkling and a few light marks. Guidebook for members of the United Spanish War Veterans. Information on proper etiquette and procedures such as when to salute, positions of members in the Auxiliary Room, and flag etiquette. View more info
By: Ordway, Edith B.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, George Sully & Co.: 1913
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015954
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's red cloth binding, some rubbing, and dust jacket with moderate chipping. It is uncommon to find this volume with dust jacket. Spotting on endpapers. Personal inscription in ink on front endpaper, "Leana (?) Day". 236 pages with index. A guide to proper early 20th century behavior. View more info
By: Perry, Josephine
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Seattle, WA, Lowman and Hanford: 1936
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 019239
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's gray cloth binding. Signed by author on the title page. 6 1/8" x 9 1/8." Ninety-three pages, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover. Pages and covers are very clean. Binding is tight. This book provides etiquette rules for housekeeping such as how to greet guests at the front door, which type of service to provide at the dinner table, and how to clean and maintain home furnishings and appliances. View more info
By: Post, Emily
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New Haven, CT, A. D. Steinbach and Sons, Incorporated: 1939
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019693
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's green boards. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4." Ninety-two pages, complete. Gilt lettering on front board. Pages and boards are clean and intact. Binding is tight. Emily Post explains proper etiquette for welcoming guests into one's home and other social interactions. There is discussion on home presentation, proper seating and table arrangements for dinners and parties, what to wear for different occasions, and what to do with problematic guests. View more info
By: Post, Emily (introduction by)
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Irish & Scottish Linen Damask Guild, Inc.: 1926
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018874
Condition: Very Good
Paper over boards binding with title label on front cover. Nine page inktroduction by Mrs. Post. Attractively printed with green borders. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. 6 x 9 inches. 32 pages. View more info
By: Shaw, Henry W.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Hanford, Conn, American Publishing Company: 1874
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 14423
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
617 pages; ads in back; illustrations; black cloth binding with gilt lettering and design. Wear to the top and bottom of the spine, several corners slightly worn. This volume is part of a series of humor books issued by Henry Shaw under the name Josh Billings. Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #17455 View more info
