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Charm and Personality; A Modern Guide to Good Form
by Marianne Meade
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£31.90£22.33
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About This Item
Cleveland, OH: Tower Books/The World Publishing Company, 1941 Tower Books/The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH. 1941. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing of the Tower Book Edition. Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and is unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good+; factory defect with an edge portion of the FFFP glued to the board where the front endpaper was not extended all the way; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light toning to pages due to the cheaper paper used in the Tower Books. DJ: Very Good +; light wear to DJ at the tips; light overall edge bumping. Maroon cloth boards and spine with blue lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 339 pp 8vo. Designed to bring out the best in the pre-War woman, this book is a practicl guide to present-day good form. The author reduces the single quality of charm to is component elements. Starting with the basic elements of health, she enumerates and describes the many separate factors that contribute to charm and personality. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014331
- Title
- Charm and Personality; A Modern Guide to Good Form
- Author
- Marianne Meade
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Tower Books/The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, OH
- Date Published
- 1941
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- charm, feminine charm, entertaining, dinners, personality, modesty, self-respect, charm school, wedding preparations, feminine problems, femininity,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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