Eureka: Humboldt Times Print, 1881. 175,[30]pp. Modern black buckram, spine gilt lettered. Title page poorly remargined, with several tape repairs. Additional, less obtrusive tape repairs at gutter of following ten leaves. Two later ownership inscriptions in pencil and ink on title page. Light, even tanning and an occasional faint fox..... More
![Item #1443 San Francisco and Oakland Chinese Telephone Directory March 1940 [cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1443_01.jpg?v=1596891301)
San Francisco: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1940. 36pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. Internally clean. A rare issue of this San Francisco phone directory published by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the local Chinese community, printed almost entirely in Chinese aside from the front..... More
[San Francisco]: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1935. 34,44,36pp. plus plate. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Later ink notation on front cover, pencil markings on final leaf. Text lightly but evenly toned. Telephone directory for Contra Costa County, California, divided into three sections. The first contains an alphabetical listing for..... More
San Francisco: 1938. 34pp. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Ink stamp on front cover, later paper label at top of spine. Minor wear and soiling, internally clean. A rare issue of this San Francisco phone directory published by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the local Chinese community, printed..... More
Denver: Ballenger & Richards, [1898]. 12,[9]-1407,[1]pp. Lacks pp.1393-1394. Thick octavo. Original printed cloth boards; spine perished, boards detached. Corners worn, cloth lightly soiled. Last few leaves loose. Ex-library Newark Free Public Library (withdrawn) with bookplate and ink stamps. Text clean. Massive city directory for Denver, published by the prolific firm..... More
Woodland: C.P. Sprague & H.W. Atwell, 1870. viii,602pp. plus folding map. Original marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in reverse calf with original gilt leather spine laid down. Light scuffing to boards. Light, vertical tide lines through leaves of center section; light tanning and scattered foxing. Map with small, unobtrusive tape..... More
Los Angeles [i.e., Japan]: Shin Nichi-Bei Shinbunsha, 1961. 23,1431,19pp., profusely illustrated with photographs, including several full-page plates after the text. Publisher's limp blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Original cardboard slipcase with black titles. Minor rubbing to spine. A gargantuan Japanese American directory and almanac published by the New Japanese American..... More
New York: Japanese American News Corp. 1948. [273]pp., varying paginations. Original red cloth, gilt lettered. Light dampstaining along spine. A few stray pencil marks to illustrated endpapers. The first postwar directory and yearbook published in 1948 by the Hokubei Shinposha, a New York Japanese-language newspaper. The work is illustrated with..... More
![Item #1041 [March, 1930, Telephone Directory for Clay Center, Kansas]. Kansas](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1041.JPG?v=1573312390)
[Kansas]: United Telephone Company, 1930. 24,8pp., plus advertisements. Original color printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers hole-punched at upper left corner, with advertisement on a string loop attached. [1]p. typed letter, signed, laid in. Very minor wear and tanning. Depression-era telephone directory for the small, northern Kansas town of Clay Center. The..... More
Wichita: [ca. 1923]. [32]pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Moderately worn, corners heavily so. Lightly tanned. Contemporary pencil inscription on final leaf. Two leaves loose. "For your convenience you will find this directory to contain a complete and revised list of the names aand [sic] locations of the Streets and..... More
Topeka: 1900. 112pp. plus two leaves of ads and folding map. 12mo. Original blue wrappers printed in silver, stapled. Light wear and soiling, upper corner of front cover torn away. Small closed tear at gutter margin of map. Light wear and soiling to text. A handbook produced for use at..... More
New Orleans: The Daily Item, 1899. 600pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Extremities worn, covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Some slight worming, heavier at front of text. Light tanning and wear. A rare New Orleans almanac full of facts and figures on a wide array of subjects ranging from Queen Victoria's..... More
Mexico City: 1968. 79,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers. Light tanning, very minor wear. A nice example of this bilingual guidebook to Mexico, with listings of events for a mid-January week in in 1968, and suggestions and advice on travel, restaurants, sights, hotels, markets, and other attractions, and includes information for many smaller..... More
Kansas City, Mo. 1912. [48]pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Remnants of original paper label at top of front cover, some light wear and soiling. Errata slip town away at title page. Internally clean. Early telephone directory for Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain's hometown. The Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company was..... More
Helena: 1897. 506,[2]pp. Thick octavo. Original cloth, spine gilt, board's printed. Spine ends a bit chipped, corners worn, hinges cracked and a bit loose. A couple of tape repairs, light toning and dust soiling. The eighth city directory for Helena, Montana, published by the prolific firm of R.L. Polk &..... More
Medford, Or. 1949. 239,[1]pp. plus large folding map, 17 x 21.5 inches. Original printed card covers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. Contemporary note taped to inside of front cover. Internally clean, map clean with minor wear. Directory for Medford City in Jackson County, Oregon, compiled and published by the local..... More
Kearney: W.H. Arnold, 1909. 186,iv,[1]pp. plus seven plates of ads and six maps (two folding). Original red cloth covers, stamped in black; sympathetically rebound with covers and front endpaper laid down. Original cloth lightly soiled and faded. Light soiling and wear to contents, a few leaves creased. Extensive manuscript notations..... More
[Hildreth?]: 1922. [12]pp. Original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Lightly creased, some slight wear. Pencil annotations to covers and contents. Otherwise clean internally. Unrecorded telephone directory for the tiny village of Hildreth, Nebraska, located about twenty miles due south of Kearny. The census for 1920 recorded 453 residents in Hildreth --..... More
![Item #1846 Golconda Telephone & Power Company [cover title]. Nevada, Directories](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1846_01.jpg?v=1615836143)
San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Co., 1918. 32pp. Narrow folio. Original blue printed wrappers. A few small stains to front cover, minor wear. Ink stamp on first page, contemporary ink notations throughout. Rare directory for the Golconda Telephone & Power Company, possibly the only issue published. This Nevada directory covers exchanges..... More
Cincinnati: Printed by J.B. & R.P. Donogh, [1839]. 520pp. plus 10 plates. Lacks pp.25-26. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Scattered foxing and soiling to text, outer leaves with some chipping and wear. Top half of pp.43-46 cut away (ads), likewise bottom half of pp.55-56 (also ads). A solid copy..... More
Dallas: R.L. Polk & Co., 1924. 526pp. Original printed cloth. Corners bumped, corners and spine ends worn. Older paper label on spine; ex-Sutro Library markings on the front endpapers and title page. Internally clean otherwise. Directory for the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, with an alphabetical, listing of individuals as well..... More
[Oklahoma City?]: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., 1920. [36]pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, especially to lower corner. Small tape reinforcement to rear lower corner. Some minor foxing to contents. An early telephone directory for the little Oklahoma town of McAlester -- the largest town inside the..... More
Waco: Texas Telephone Company, 1919. [4],132pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Covers worn and chipped, some annotation. Text lightly worn, several corners torn away, not affecting text. An unrecorded phone book for Waco, Texas, issued by the Texas Telephone Co. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in Waco, the Texas Telephone..... More
Omaha: R.L. Polk & Co., 1948. 770pp. Original printed covers and leatherette spine. Some light wear, ex-Sutro Library with barcode and bookplate. Internally clean. Telephone directory for the city of Cheyenne, published by the longstanding firm of R.L. Polk. More
Kansas City, Mo. R.L. Polk & Co., 1958. 772,48pp. Original printed covers and leatherette spine. Some light wear, ex-Sutro Library with barcode and bookplate. Internally clean. Telephone directory for the city of Cheyenne, published by the longstanding firm of R.L. Polk. More