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Amy Vanderbilt's New Complete Book of Etiquette: The guide to gracious living by the foremost authority on manners today
by Amy Vanderbilt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1967. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Dust jacket has lightly sunned spine, small closed end tears at bottom front edge, chips missing rear bottom edge, frayed headband and tail of spine. Book is square and clean, with crisp corners and red tinted top edge. Front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers show patterned initials AV in red with grey daisies and light foxing in gutters. 738 pp. Text in near fine condition with no markings. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Text shows no sign of ever being read. A partial table of contents shows the book covers topics like: The ceremonies of life, correspondence, home entertaining, household management, dress and manners, the family and social education of the children, your public life and travel etiquette at home and abroad.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100327
- Title
- Amy Vanderbilt's New Complete Book of Etiquette
- Author
- Amy Vanderbilt
- Illustrator
- Fred McCarroll, Mary Suzuki and Andrew Warhol
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth covered boards with gilt title on red block on spine. Tight hinges.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 738
- Size
- 6 1/4 X 9 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Etiquette, Manners
- Bookseller catalogs
- Etiquette;
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- Spine
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- Tail
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Sunned
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- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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