Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried by Judith Martin - October 12, 1999

New York: Crown, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in an As New jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight; tail lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 372 pages.

Contents:
Chapter One--The People Allotting due space and respect to parents, children, roommates, relatives--and whoever those other people are whom one of them must have brought home;
Chapter Two--The Place Making use of the rooms instead of turning them into a mess or a museum, while everybody huddles upstairs;
Chapter Three--The Rules Negotiating compromises without having to leave home for Domestic Dispute Court;
Chapter Four--The System Keeping track of where everybody is, where they are supposed to be, and what they are supposed to be doing (if they remember);
Chapter Five--The Help Getting the housework done when you can't complain about the Servant Problem--because the servants are you and the people in the phone book who may be there sometime today;
Chapter Six--The Visitors Offering hospitality without surrendering your privacy or your resources to the thankless;
Chapter Seven--Entertaining: The Social Contract Reviving the art of not-for-profit entertaining to make friends who will love you for yourself;
Chapter Eight--Entertaining: The Social Event Learning to give a variety of parties, formal and informal--because it beats staying home alone watching TV;
Chapter Nine--Entertaining: The Relatives Kindling warm memories rather than heated conflict at family occasions;
Chapter Ten--The Community Being pleasant enough to the neighbors so you're not afraid to walk out your own front door.