[Sorry for the delayed post, I tried to put this up Christmas eve but blogger wasn’t cooperating, arg] I picked up a few books at a used bookshop on the Eastern shore of Maryland in early December, and thought I would share a little from two of them on this lovely Christmas Eve. The image […]
Tag: books
New Book on Emily Post
Over the last few years I’ve been in contact off and on with author Laura Claridge, who just published a book about Emily Post titled Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners. I haven’t gotten my copy yet but did spot this write up in Slate this week. If you are […]
It’s not pornography — it’s etiquette!
This article is great! And they are digitizing them! Can’t wait. Thanks for the tip, Jurretta!
Newest Old Books
I’ve got a few new additions to the collection this month, thanks to the Library of Congress used booksale (oh, don’t worry, they’re not selling off the collections, staff donate books and the sales go to charities), and a visit to the DC Big Flea at Dulles Expo Center (lots of browsing yielded only two […]
1966: Country Life
I’m in Vermont for a few days of R&R; and found a few books at a used bookshop in Brattleboro: Lao Russell’s Love; a scientific and living philosophy of love and sex; A 1980 reprint of the 1768 The delights of wisdom concerning conjugial love: after which follow, the pleasures of insanity concerning scortatory love […]
Free Books!
No, not free books for you, sorry. Unless you head over to where I was yesterday afternoon — The Book Thing in Baltimore, Maryland, where you can take as many free books as you can carry (really!). It’s a fabulous place, particularly for an addict like me. I hadn’t been in a few years, so […]
1932: Manners to Books
Digging through an unorganized pile of some of my books, I found one I’d forgotten I had, titled Mr. Manners: A Manual of Good Manners, by Rose Henniker Heaton. It was published in 1932 by Burns Oates & Washbourne, London. The title page continues: “for Good Children, together with AWFUL EXAMPLES of WILD MANNERS and […]