first edition Hardcover
1928 · Garden City
by Muriel" aka Emily Post
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated paper covered boards, red cloth covered spine. Very good. 227 pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. Illustrated by JOHN HELD, JR. Miss Manners, Emily Post, first published this book in serial form in Vanity Fair under the anonymous pen name Muriel. Early in her career, Miss Post had a bunch of fun, writing humorous essays and books on various topics such as travel, business, and of course Etiquette. This entertaining book features the fictitious debutante "Muriel" who spends her day navigating the trials and tribulations of life as a debutante. To add to the amusement, the book features one of the best-known illustrators of the jazz-age, John Held Jr. Laid in - most of the scarce dust wrapper, minus the back cover. Interior clean, lightly toned at edges. Boards clean but rubbed at edges.
(Inventory #: 4167)