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EXCUSE ME!
A Game of Manners for Children
Parker Brothers, Inc., Salem, Mass., New York, London, 1923Contents include twelve white question cards, 36 small, numbered correct-answer slips and 76
small, unnumbered incorrect-answer slips. Original box with tears, splits and repairs as well as some old staining. With photo-copy of original directions for playing the game.
Box: 4 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches
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NO AUTHOR LISTED
[MRS. M. L. RAYNE]Gems of Deportment and Hints of Etiquette: A Manual of Instruction for the Home
Tyler & Co., Chicago, 1881
With numerous line-engraved illustrations and vignettes.
In good condition. Binding frayed slightly at edges.
8 ⅛ x 6 inches |
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What Shall I Do: Everyday Questions and Answers on Etiquette
13 page booklet, no date give, no publication place given. Appears to be 1920s, and perhaps a giveaway from "Quaint Shop" Greeting Cards Company, Westfield, Mass.
Covers slightly soiled, otherwise in very good condition.
6 ⅞ x 5 inches |
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Modern Manners: What to Do--How to Do It--What to Say--How to Say It
The Haskin Service, Washington, D.C., 1946Softcover booklet in fragile but intact and complete condition. Looks to have been a
mail-away service offering of The Patriot and The Evening News.
9 x 6 inches |
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ENID A. HAUPTThe Seventeen Book of Etiquette
and Entertaining
David McKay Company, Inc., New York, 1963. This is Fourth Printing, February 1964
Very good condition. Dust-jacket slightly soiled and with a few small tears. Front
fly-leaf with old glue stains
10 x 7
½ inches
VG+/G
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SALLY HINES
Good Manners in a Nutshell
Nut Shell Publications, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1947
Hardcover in very good condition. Internal pages slightly yellowed. No dust-jacket.
8 x 5
½ inches
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MIRIAM B. REICHL, Editor
Fashion Sewing on a Budget
The Homemaker's Encyclopedia, Inc., New York, 1952.
Spine faded, otherwise in very good condition.342 black & white illustrations and photographs.
8 x 5 ½ inches
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EDITH HEAL
Gloves: Fashion & Etiquette
Hansen Glove Corporation, n.p, 1961
Second PrintingIn good condition except for old label stain at top right corner of front cover, and some skinning on the back cover.
24-page booklet
9 x 6 inches
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"An American Lady"
True Politeness: A Hand-Book of Etiquette for Ladies
Leavitt & Allen, New York, 1854 Originally © 1847
Embossed and gilt covers worn, spine missing, interior with some staining and complete save top third of
first page torn off. Fragile.
4 ½ x 3 ⅜ inches
Pre-Civil War American.
Quite rare.
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GAIL BROOK BURKET
Manners Please
Beckley-Cardy Company, Chicago, 1949
Illustrations by Peter Brunger
Used ex-library condition with attendant
ink stamps and old glue where pocket was. Very slightly worn at edges. Front end page torn out.
7 ¾ x 6 inches |
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RUTH CARMEN
Carmen Living Jewels: Personality,
Poise, Culture
John C. Yorston Publishing Company, New York, 1937
Very good condition,
cover fraying and with losses at edges which extend beyond internal sheet size
Soft, leatherette cover
with gold end-pages, printed on heavy glossy paper, 112 pages
9 x 6 inches |
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BYRTA CARSON
How You Look and Dress: A First Course in Clothing
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, Toronto, London, 1955
(Second Edition)
Ex-Library Book in very used condition with binding soiled, written on, fraying. Interior pages generally in excellent condition.
Foredges and title page with some red ink.8 x 5
½ inches
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EMILY HOLT
Encyclopaedia of Etiquette: What
To Do, What To Say, What To Write, What To Wear. A Book of Manners for
Everyday Use
Doubleday, Page &
Company, Garden City, New York, and Toronto, 1921,
Illustrated, Revised and Enlarged Edition. Originally
©
1901-1915
Fair
condition, binding worn and loose, last few pages loose from binding, ink and
pencil inscriptions front and back endpapers, internal soiling, no
dust-jacket, 500 pages
8 ½
x 5 ½ inches
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ELINOR AMES
Elinor Ames' Book of Modern Etiquette
Halcyon House, New York, 1935
With 14 photographic illustrations
Good condition, binding coming loose at
front, ink underlining and notations in first 15 pages, otherwise clean, used
condition, no dust-jacket
9 x 6 inches
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Louise Raymond
[with Good Housekeeping Institute]
Good Housekeeping's Book of Today's Etiquette
Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1965. First Edition
Illustrations by Burmah Burris
Hardcover, in very good condition. Color copy of original dust-jacket.
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
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