Guide To Modern Manners by Thomas Blaikie

Our free-and-easy approach to modern conduct has thrown up a whole new set of social dilemmas, potentially leaving us in a vacuum of uncertainty and embarrassment.  For instance, take the nightmare of polite social kissing...  When is it appropriate? In what order?  And how many times?  In this informative book, Thomas Blaikie has set out to give us the definitive guide to good modern manners.  Here, he'll tell us how and when to drop in on a friend, how to send condolences (is email good enough?), how to react decorously to flirtation, along with a myriad of other twenty-first century social traumas...!

• Condition:

Brand New (Definitions below)

Here's the actual image of the book

• Binding:

Hardcover with Dust Jacket

• Pages:

234 pages

• Dimensions:

207mm x 138mm (height x width)

• Publisher:

Harper Collins, £10.00

Brand New

This book has the same quality as you would expect from a standard high street book retailer.  It is in mint condition.

Like New

This means the book is shiny, cover is undamaged, dust jacket is included for hardcover binding, no missing pages, all pages are undamaged (no creases or tears), no underlining/highlighting of text, no damage to binding, no writing in margins.  This book can easily be mistaken for a brand new one.

Very Good

This book doesn't look brand new but has no easily noticeable damage to the cover, dust jacket included for hard covers, no missing pages, all pages are undamaged (no creases or tears), no underlining/highlighting of text, no writing in margins, very minimal identifying marks (previous owner's name on the inside cover), very minimal wear and tear.  You could give this book to a good friend as a gift.

Good

This book has very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), dust jacket not necessarily included, minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged (minimal creases and tears), minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins, no missing pages.  For this sort of book, you would use it yourself, but wouldn't necessarily give it out as a gift!

Acceptable

Some damage to the cover but integrity still intact, binding slightly damaged but integrity still intact, possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text, no missing pages.  Colouration of pages due to age.  This book is generally beaten up a bit but it is still readable.