The Secretary's Handbook: A Manual of Correct Usage. This item is unavailable.The Secretary's Handbook: A Manual of Correct Usage

The Macmillan Company, New York. 1942. Hardcover. Stated 6th Edition/ Revised/ 5th Printing by copyright page. Retired small town library book. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for library stamps to front and rear endpapers, title page, copyright page, dedication page, verso, and preface page. Book Condition: Good+; light sunfading to spine; index number on spine; checkout pocket and slip removed from rear endpapers; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges. No DJ. Brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and brown letters in the gilt shadowbox on the front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 540 pp 8vo. This book was the bible of secretarial information and correctness. It contained not only punctuation and hyphenation but also regulations for telegrams and radiograms. This book does not get into shorthand, but it covers everything else that an executive secretary would need to know to be highly proficient in her job. A clean very presentable copy.…