directions avoiding improprieties conduct common de censor (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Cover corners are bumped. Also the spine is bumped at the top and bottom. Round orange price tag sticker, $5.95, pasted to the front inside board. Book pages are clean with no marks. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS8056 092019.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1890. Title page dated 1890. Boudoir edition. Pocket sized guide to late Victorian period etiquette including proper use of language. Blue cloth printed in gilt, all edges gilt, 4.5 inches tall. Covers lightly rubbed with additiona rubbing along the spine, front hinge lightly cracked and secure, text block sound, pages clean, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

Modern reprint ed. Paperback very small square, fair to good condition, concealed staples, thin red card covers (black title), stain fore-edge some pages, slight loss spine ends, spine & nearby covers little faded, minor foxing title page & last page (minimal foxing elsewhere), front cover & corner rear cover creased, covers little marked, minimal insect damage base rear cover, some edgewear. 47 pp. This relatively modern edition is published by the iconic Melbourne bookseller, E. W. Cole. The original author Censor (Oliver Bell Bruce) wrote this little book to remind rather than to instruct about respectable human behaviour and speech. Some of the topics covered are: At Table, In Dress and Personal Habits, In the Drawing-Room, In Public, In Speech, In General. (No date, but 1946, Trove.).

102 [2] pp. 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches, publisher's red gilt-lettered boards. Near fine.

Second edition. c.1883 6/7 Parchment Paper Series. Peacock feather pattern parchment, green eps, red block ruled text, aeg. 18mo, 3.5 inches (8,6cm). pp. 102, (2) Series ad. Very Good. Dulled cover with overall internal toning. Bunce was an author, editor and playwright who later was assistant then chief editor for D. Appleton, hence the nick-name. DON118228.