I Try To Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book
by Bracken, Peg
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- Paperback
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About This Item
Used book may have marking, writing from the previous owner. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, creasing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Dampstain is visible on the front, back , tail outer edges and on the inside pages but the dampstain has not interfered with the reading material. Bracken's one and only etiquette guide, from 1965. You'll find no recipes here except for one simple but fun punch for a crowd. Specific topics, at nearly fifty years' remove, are not always current (how to addres a woman in the days before "Ms"; casual invitations for a daytime house party), but Bracken's -- dare I say it? -- legendary wit still entertains, and her grounding in the fundamentals of "good behavior" such as a sense of fair play and the need for the hostess (or host) to put her/himself in the shoes of visitors and guests, would certainly bring nods of approval from today's etiquette mavens. I wouldn't consider assigning this book for 21st-Century instructees, but as a curl-up-and-read pleasure from an earlier time that was not always so "simple" as supposed today, it is more than fun. 1966. A3.
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- Bookseller
- Better Bindings (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2560
- Title
- I Try To Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book
- Author
- Bracken, Peg
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Publisher
- Fawcett Crest
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 176
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