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Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson / by Judith Martin.
by Martin, Judith, 1938-
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0689116527
- ISBN 13
- 9780689116520
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About This Item
New York : Atheneum, 1985.. Soft Cover. x, 70 p. : illus. ; 19 cm. In lectures at Harvard Miss manners address the problem of etiquette in a democratic society. "My mission, rather, is to call attention to the need for a philosophically acceptable and aesthetically pleasing standard of American etiquette" (p. viii). She goes so far as to admit "that I am actually a direct descendant, on both sides of my family, from people who practiced [sex]" This is one of three passages underlined in ink by a great Newport dame. Stock# 44,222. Vg, except for aforesaid underlining / soft cover.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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- Bookseller
- The Owl at the Bridge (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44222
- Title
- Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson / by Judith Martin.
- Author
- Martin, Judith, 1938-
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0689116527
- ISBN 13
- 9780689116520
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum, 1985.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Etiquette
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference; Etiquette;
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