Description
The first edition, first printing of The Personality Of A House: The Blue Book of Home Design and Decoration by Emily Post.
Octavo, xvi, 521pp, [5]. Textured blue cloth, title stamped in gilt. “First published – April, 1930” statement on copyright page. Top edge dyed blue. Complete with frontispiece portrait, fold-out “Color Chart” and 63 illustrated plates. Light wear at the heel of the spine, faint foxing to title page and endpapers, internally clean. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $4.00 on the front flap, a few closed tears, light toning to the spine, bright illustrations, scarce in this condition.
