At Home and Abroad; or, How to Behave
New York: Evand and Brittan, 1853. Original Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth with blind-stamp decoration; gilt lettering and decoration. 165 pp. with occasional in-text decoration. Clean and tight but with general age spots (not foxing) on some pages; wear to covers (fraying to edges, small pieces missing from head/tail of spine, corners bumped, some soiling); page preceding title page is torn out (likely a half title). Item #159292
Behaviour in church, at the table, in the street, as a house guest, as a host; personal habits; bad habits peculiar to little boys; proprieties of dress; ill-bred little girls; rail and sea travel; epistolary experiences; the unguarded look (!)... "Politeness, is to do and say, The kindest things in the kindest way."
OCLC: 937044838
Price: $100.00