Collins, 1933, no dustwrapper, spine and covers sun-faded, interior bright apart from small amount of foxing, binding tight, around 30 Deco-style plates in pink and yellow ink, and decorative endpapers.

If you wish to be a successful hostess, no matter your means, no matter your staff, you must make entertaining a business as well as an art. First draw up a list of the different kinds of parties you can afford to give, your list depending, of course, on whether you entertain with the help of one maid, of a staff of servants, or single-handed. Follow with a list of the equipment required for such entertainments, then devote some time to planning well-balanced menus for spring, summer, autumn and winter parties. You do not need a large housekeeping allowance to qualify for the role of an ideal hostess. You can become famed for your cocktail parties, your luncheons, your teas, your dinners, your after-dinner coffee parties, or after-theatre suppoer parties. You can specialise in bridge lunches, or bridge teas in the winter, and picnics or tennis parties in the summer. You may even limit your entertaining to `Finger Fare' parties, or to 'Fork' parties, or to `Sandwich Spreads,' as a substitute for Sunday night's supper, or for the usual refreshment following a game of cards, or a dance to music on the wireless...