{"id":8127,"date":"2010-07-02T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:32:21","slug":"featured-high-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-high-society\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: HIGH SOCIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Dorothy Parker&#8217;s first book appearance<\/span>; her solo debut did not come until 1922. Numerous Illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish, a British-born cartoonist who emigrated to the United States around 1914 and began contributing regularly to <em>Vanity Fair Magazine<\/em>, from which the contents of this book were taken. A Pictorial Guide to Life in Our Upper Circles. The drawings and text comment satirically on the concerns of the upper classes: the Season, the Opera, Weekends, Divorce, Bridge, and the ordeals of finding a place in Society and keeping it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish. Dorothy Parker&#8217;s first book appearance; her solo debut did not come until 1922.\u00a0 Prose Precepts by Dorothy Parker, George S. Chappell, and Frank Crownshield. Hard bound with original Pictorial Boards, no dust jacket. Wear to boards with corners bumped. Interior clean. Binding loose, but holding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 19190<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>HIGH SOCIETY<\/strong><br \/>\nAdvice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Parker, Dorothy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE FIRST BOOK APPEARANCE OF DORTHY PARKER.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliographic Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publisher: <strong>G. P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublication Date: <strong>1920<\/strong><br \/>\nBinding:<strong> Hard Bound<\/strong><br \/>\nBook Condition:<strong> Good<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Parker&#8217;s first book appearance; her solo debut did not come until 1922. Numerous Illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish, a British-born cartoonist who emigrated to the United States around 1914 and began contributing regularly to Vanity Fair Magazine, from which the contents of this book were taken. A Pictorial Guide to Life in Our Upper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15105,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/15105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}