Decoration Post Emily (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xvi, 521pp, [5]. Textured blue cloth, title stamped in gilt. "First published - April, 1930" statement on copyright page. Top edge dyed blue. Complete with frontispiece portrait, fold-out "Color Chart" and 63 illustrated plates. Light wear at the heel of the spine, faint foxing to title page and endpapers, internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $4.00 on the front flap, a few closed tears, light toning to the spine, bright illustrations, scarce in this condition. The first edition, first printing of The Personality Of A House: The Blue Book of Home Design and Decoration by Emily Post. (illustrator).…

Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; blue-green top-stain; xvi,521,[5]pp; illus. Tight, square, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. A guide to stylish domesticity for the new upwardly-mobile American woman, a follow-up to her epochal Etiquette: the Blue Book of Social Usage (1927) and one of those tragic Depression-era publishing mis-fires - written at the apex of the Roaring Twenties, published in the immediate aftermath of the Wall Street crash. A particularly bright and attractive copy, sadly lacking the dustwrapper.…