Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage by Emily Post is this 1947 sixty-ninth printing of the completely rewritten 1945 edition published by Funk & Wagnalls Company.
This substantial illustrated reference covers everyday manners, entertaining, correspondence, dress, table settings, public behavior, and the military and post-war social customs added for this edition.
Details
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Item: Etiquette and social customs reference book
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Title: Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage
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Author: Emily Post (Mrs. Price Post)
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Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York
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Publication Year: 1947
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Edition and Printing: New Edition, completely rewritten and reset, including military and post-war etiquette. 1945 copyright edition. Sixty-ninth printing, 1947.
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Format and Binding: Blue cloth hardcover with silver lettering
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Dust Jacket: Present, with extensive wear
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Pages: 654
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Genre: Etiquette and social customs
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Language: English
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ISBN: No ISBN shown in the photographed copy
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Dimensions: Approximately 9 x 6 x 2 inches
Condition Grade: Good
Positives
- The blue cloth boards remain attractive with bright silver title lettering.
- The pages shown are clean, legible, and easy to read, including photographs and illustrated table setting information.
- A blue Funk & Wagnalls promotional leaflet for Emily Post's Children Are People is present with the book.
Issues / Wear
- The dust jacket has major edge wear, large chips and losses, tears, creasing, rubbing, and staining.
- The jacket spine and folds show additional fraying and loss.
- The page ends show age toning and minor staining.
- The text pages have general age toning consistent with the 1947 printing.
Collector's Notes
The copyright page traces this long-running etiquette guide back to its original 1922 edition and records the completely rewritten 1945 version represented here.
This copy is especially interesting for its stated sixty-ninth printing and surviving Children Are People promotional leaflet.
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