Elements of Etiquette: A Guide to Table Manners in an Imperfect World
by Craig Claiborne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688074022
- ISBN 13
- 9780688074029
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by Morrow, 1992. Known primarily for his cookbooks, here Claiborne provides a sophisticated and sensible guide to table manners. Everything from ow to hold cutlery, to dinner conversation and gift giving are covered. 132 pages with Index, 6-1/4" X 8-1/4", sewn binding. Sturdy slate gray colored boards, with red cloth covered spine, the author name and title imprinted in gold on the spine and a handsome design blind stamped on the front board. Dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, no wear or creases to the jacket. Cover boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. This is not a remainder copy, not a library discard. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-06472
- Title
- Elements of Etiquette: A Guide to Table Manners in an Imperfect World
- Author
- Craig Claiborne
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688074022
- ISBN 13
- 9780688074029
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1992-11
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking;
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