etiquette

Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Many b&w plates, some color, 216 pages. In this beautiful book, Aileen Ribeiro surveys the clothing worn by the middle and upper classes throughout Europe in the eighteenth century and discusses what this meant in terms of social definition and identity. Ribeiro, one of the world's premier historians of dress, also looks at such subjects as developments in retailing and distribution, etiquette, the rise of the dress designer and couturier, the evolution of ready-made clothes, fancy dress and the masquerade. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1st, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. How respectable members of society communicated by letter with examples of mannered correspndence of the mid-19th century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. From contemporary food design to the spectacle of eighteenth-century aristocratic feasts, this book examines the history of cutlery and dining ritual. A broad offering of great, beautiful pictures and collection of texts that explore the social meanings and fascinating forms of table settings. A truly fascinating book.

Softcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with light blue lettering and a paste-down illustration on front cover. 226 pages, advice book for turn-of-20th Century modern girls. These "talks" first appeared in The Delineator under the pen-name Priscilla Wakefield. This book is a collection of 35 of those talks with the aim of self improvement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Revised Ed., 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board, as well as decorative silver gilt towards top of front board. Gilt edge to top of edge block. 487 pages plus publisher's ads. An attractive copy of this popular soup-to-nuts etiquette manual., first published in 1884. This is the enlarged, revised edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 93 pages plus index. Two-color illustrations throughout by Manning Lee. Blurb on the front board and dust jacket from Amy Vanderbilt, "You can't begin manners training too young if you do it right." Wonderful mid-20th century etiquette book for children. Clean copy.

New York, American Tobacco Co., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "The etiquette of smoking by Amy Vanderbilt", color photo of Amy Vanderbilt. 10" X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Boston, Crosby and Nichols, 1st US, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured light blue cloth, gilt lettering and design on spine, 7 x 5 inches, frontispiece engraving of a young woman feeding a child on her lap with a spoon, a young lad seated at the table; three additional plates. 344 pages. Fifteen stories, each intending to teach moral precepts. They are Youth, Intellect, Beauty, Favor, Ambition, Pleasure, Friendship, Love, Godliness, Kindliness, Fashion, The Life of Pride and Levity, The Life of Sense and Heaviness, The Life of Sarcasm and Bitterness, Consolations."Sarah Tytler" was the pen name of Henrietta Keddie (1827-1914), a Scottish novelist. "Her domestic realism became popular with women, as did her conduct books for girls." - wikipedia. The artist, John Everett Millais (1829-1896), became a celebrated English painter, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Covers with light soil.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1st Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Cover boards bound in black cloth, yellow paste down on front cover board and spine with black titles. Deckled untrimmed edges. Light tanning from age to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. A parody outline of etiquette by the author of "A Parody Outline of History".

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and creasing to dust jacket. Illustrations by author.

Softcover. Berkeley/Denver, Frog Ltd./Domo Productions, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages, b&w illustrations. This first volume covers basic sword movements (kenjutsu) and aikido open-hand techniques (taijutsu), beginning with training hall (dojo) etiquette, foundational body movements, and the art of falling (ukemi). Over 1,600 drawings and photographs show each stage of the foot and hand movements for dozens of sequences. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Samuel Hall, reprint, 1794, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 12mo, 56 pp. Small, tall 16mo, original marbled paper wrappers. First published in 1695 by Lady Mary Cressy, under the title The Whole Duty of a Woman; or, A Guide to the Female Sex, from the Age of Sixteen to Sixty, &c. For a new edition in 1753, the author was simply listed as "A Lady." In fact, this author was William Kenrick (1725-1779), English novelist, playwright, and founder of the book review digest The London Review. Kenrick was described by Paul Fussell in PMLA (June 1951) as "one of London's most despised, drunken, and morally degenerate hack writers in the later eighteenth century." In this tiny volume, Kenrick assumes the persona of a fallen woman, now reformed, who wants to persuade other women to live a life of virtue. Chapters include Curiosity, Reflection, Vanity, Knowledge, Reputation, Applause, Censure, Insinuation, Affectation, Modesty, Chastity, Complacence, Acquaintance, Friendship, Elegance, Frugality, Employment, Virginity, Marriage, Education, Authority, Widowhood, and Religion. Considerable wear to wrappers, still intact.

Softcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette. Clean copy.

London, Hardie Grant, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black boards stamped in white, 250 pages, color photos. Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dancefloor and private room etiquette, from emotional and intellectual connections between dancer and client, to the often-blurred boundaries that exist in between.Journalist Emily Dinsdale and filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes have collected images and stories from the women working in the London strip clubs over several years. Having been part of the industry themselves, they have a unique and intimate access to the seldom-heard stories, giving voice to an age-old industry, from the perspective of the traditionally voiceless workers. Supported by original, behind the scenes photography from the authors, these narratives express vulnerability, empowerment, curiosity and the complexity and duplicity of relationships--in short, what it is to be human.