White Gloves and Party Manners by Marjabelle Young & Ann Buchwald [FIRST EDITION] 1967 • Robert B. Luce

White Gloves and Party Manners by Marjabelle Young & Ann Buchwald

FIRST EDITION [1965] ROBERT B. LUCE

6th printing / 1967.

Antiquarian illustrated hardcover in excellent condition. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Cropped corner on front panel.  Like new; jacket now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.   

Book itself is near mint; faint ghost marks from erased pencil markings on personalized bits of front endpapers.   Otherwise, reads like new. 

This is a first book of manners for little girls (and their brothers, too). Delightfully illustrated, it is a simple, authoritative guide for the very young to get them started toward being ladies and gentlemen.

The authors, both of whom have children of their own, say that good manners is simply a matter of knowing "how to act with other people." Whether it is a "dress-up" occasion, like a birthday party, or a simple overnight visit to a friend's house, "White Gloves and Party Manners" will tell its young reader just how to act and what to do.
Among the other subjects in the book are "Telephone Manners," "How to Act With Grownups," "Table Manners," "Introducing and Being Introduced," "Going Special Places," such as concerts, the theatre, to church or synagogue, and even to the movies, "Going to Parties and Giving Parties."

Good grooming too, is a part of manners, and the authors have written a special section on what to wear, and how to keep clothes, room, and personal things neat and fresh.Younger readers will find this an easy- to-read, helpful first book of etiquette. Mothers and fathers will find that it makes their job ever so much more simple.