Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922.
First edition, first printing. xix, [1], 627 pp. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear and mottling to covers, faint scattered foxing to textblock edges, offsetting to endsheets. Front hinge exposed, bookseller ticket to front free endpaper.
The first edition of the queen of all etiquette books. Emily Price Post was a high society lady who turned to novel-writing after her divorce. Her publisher noticed the attention to polite manners in her novels and suggested that Post write an etiquette manual. She did so, grounding her rules of conduct in common sense and consideration of other people, and the result was a runaway hit with Americans who still wanted to know the rules of society even when they embraced the new postwar social freedoms. Post wrote a daily advice column for over thirty years and established the Emily Post Institute, still active today and run by her great-great-grandchildren.
Price: $1,500