[Washington, D.C. 1959]. [19]pp., mimeographed on rectos only. Original printed blue wrappers, brad bound. Covers stained and worn. Mild uneven toning to a few leaves. A seemingly unrecorded directory for the Howard University School of Law, published by the Student Bar Association in 1959. This humble, handmade directory includes a...... More

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

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 Ex-library Newark Free Public Library (withdrawn) with bookplate and ink stamps.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

Los Angeles: 1963. 173,20pp., plus five plates. Original pictorial cloth boards, lettered in black and white. Boards slightly bowed, with minor wear and rubbing. Light toning internally. A scarce directory of members of the Hiroshima Prefecture Society (Kenjinkai) of Southern California, with a printed introduction and information about the group..... More

San Francisco: Published by the Nichi Bei Times Inc., 1952. [8],[8],571,[3]pp. Publisher's blue wrappers printed in white. Profusely illustrated. Two private library labels on spine, remnants of label on inside front cover. Minor edge wear, foxing and light staining to covers and text block edges, short splits to joints. Minor..... More

[Spokane: 1960]. 16pp. of mimeographed text printed on light green card stock. Original light brown wrappers decoratively printed in light blue and maroon, string tied through a single hole punched at the top left, presumably for hanging on a nail near a phone. Some staining, ink and pencil notations, and..... More

[San Francisco]: Hokubei Mainichi, [1950]. 770pp. Original light gray wrappers printed in blue. Front cover creased, minor dust soiling, light edge wear. Lacking page 743-44, six other leaves partially defective. An extensive directory of the Japanese-American community primarily in California but also in twenty-two other states, Canada, and Japan at..... More

Topaz, Ut. 1944. 122,[6]pp. Original embossed cloth. Minor wear at corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracked, but solid. Copious, contemporary manuscript inscriptions in a plethora of hands. Scattered, minor foxing and toning. An excellent, extensively annotated example of the second (of three) yearbooks published by the Associated Students of..... 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

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

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