"Etiquette. The Blue Book of Social Usage" by Amily Post, illustrated with private photographs and facsimiles of social forms. New and Enlarged Edition with 48 pages of Answers to Reader's Questions, published by Funk & Wagnalls, New York, Second Enlarged Edition, 20th Printing, November, 1935 [1st printing of this enlarged edition was published November 1927]

Blue hard boards, gold lettering on front board and spine [some wear]; 6.1/4" x 9.1/2"; ink inscription "Flossie J. Nichols / Christmas 1935" inside cover; slightly stained endpapers, xviii + 740 pages including Index, monochrome illustrations, fold-out plate "How To Address Important Personages," very good condition.

"Etiquette is a seminal work in personal relations that ranges from topics on how to conduct oneself when meeting strangers to how one should behave at formal dinners and engagements. It has pioneered many social networking concepts, granting Post a name synonymous with proper etiquette and manners that is referenced in etiquette books even today."

Emily Post [1872-1960] began her career as a writer at the age of thirty-one. Her romantic stories of European and American society were serialized in Vanity Fair, Collier's, and other popular magazines. Many were also successfully published in book form.

Upon its publication in 1922, her book, Etiquette, topped the nonfiction bestseller list, and the phrase "according to Emily Post" soon entered our language as the last word on the subject of social conduct. Mrs. Post, who as a girl had been told that well-bred women should not work, was suddenly a pioneering American career woman. Her numerous books, a syndicated newspaper column, and a regular network radio program made Emily Post a figure of national stature and importance throughout the rest of her life.

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