Manners to Grow On by Tina Lee 1955 Doubleday Children's Book

• Title: Manners to Grow On: A How-To-Do Book for Boys and Girls
• Author: Tina Lee
• Illustrator: Manning de V. Lee
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Publication Year: 1955 (True First Edition Era / Vintage Retro)
• Format: Hardcover / Hardback Book (No Dust Jacket)
• Genre: Children's Etiquette / Vintage Conduct Literature / Mid-Century Nostalgia
• Language: English
• Production Origin: Printed in the USA

• A wonderfully nostalgic mid-century children's etiquette volume designed to introduce young boys and girls to essential good manners, social conduct, and classic politeness.
• Features a charming, highly accessible instructional layout by Tina Lee, accented by period-correct retro illustrations that beautifully document 1950s family values and childhood expectations.
• Covers essential daily social topics including basic table manners, telephone etiquette, party behavior, classroom politeness, and writing thank-you notes.
• Perfect addition for collectors of mid-century children's books, vintage home economics displays, nursery bookshelves, or as an authentic reading copy.

• Condition: Used / Vintage pre-owned condition from a private collection. Described accurately as a reader copy.
• Inscription Status: Noted personalization. Features a vintage handwritten pen or pencil gift inscription on the interior flyleaf / endpaper page.
• Surface & Shelf Quality: Displays obvious signs of historical shelf storage and handling wear. The hardcover boards show rubbed corners, edge scuffing, and minor surface smudges typical of a decades-old children's textbook.
• Spine & Page Integrity: The binding remains structurally sound and intact, holding all interior pages securely. Pages display light age tanning and minor finger marks, but remain entirely crisp, legible, and free of heavy text block drawings or large missing sections.

• Average secondary market value (Loose inscribed reader copy with shelf wear): $12.00 to $25.00
• High-grade pristine copies featuring rare intact original dust jackets: $45.00 to $75.00+

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