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The Unexpurgated CODE: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners (w/Jacket!) 1975

The Unexpurgated CODE: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners (w/Jacket!) 1975

$78.95Price

The Unexpurgated CODE: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners. J. P. Donleavy (Author), Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, U.S.A., 1975.

 

Humor

ISBN: 044007794x

Vintage from the 1970s

 

The book is a guide for people who feel that they should belong to the manner born - that is, not having to work and generally living a life of luxury. 

Chapters:

  1. Social Climbing
  2. Extinctions and Mortalities
  3. Vilenesses Various
  4. In Pursuit of Comfortable Habits
  5. Perils and Precautions

 

The book consists of hundreds of anecdotes and events one may encounter throughout life, and how to deal with them. Some examples include:

  • Upon Embellishing your Background
  • Accent Improvement
  • Upon the Sudden Reawakening of your Sordid Background
  • Ass kissing and other types of Flattery
  • Suicide
  • Cannibalism
  • Upon Saucy Assemblages
  • Upon Marrying a Lady for Her Money
  • Stripping and Streaking
  • When the Overwhelming Desire to Goose a Lady Cannot be Suppressed
  • Upon Being a Member of the Titled Classes
  • Blowing upon Your Soup
  • Wife Beating
  • Shabby People
  • Shabby Shabby People
  • Shabby Shabby Shabby People

 

Book with mild wear and a sunned cover. The jacket has some top edge creasing and tears at the top of the spine. Owner name/date at the front free endpaper. Hardcover book with 283 pages.

 

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