San Francisco: J.P. Chadwick, 1923. 128pp. plus folding map, 14 x 16.5 inches. Narrow octavo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Slight chipping to first and last few leaves, text lightly tanned. Directory and street guide for San Francisco, designed to help navigate the city’s streetcar lines. “Containing..... More
![San Francisco and Oakland Chinese Telephone Directory June 1944 [cover title]. California](/pictures/thumb/McBRB804_01.JPG?v=1569499785)
San Francisco: 1944. 41pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Small hole punch through upper left corner, not affecting text. Very light creasing and wear to wraps. Light tanning. Rare World War II-era telephone directory for Chinese listings in the Bay Area, issued by Pacific Bell. Aside from the cover title and..... More
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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: San Francisco Examiner, 1919. 96pp. Original printed wrappers. Light foxing and minor wear to wraps. Portions of two rear leaves for notes and annotations torn out. Light foxing to initial leaves and light tanning throughout. Only edition of this scarce Bay Area directory, published by the San Francisco..... More
Los Angeles: Parker Publishing Co., 1909. 390pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine and hinges reinforced; front hinge splitting from foot; wrappers creased, with minor chips and two closed tears at edges. Contents toned. An unusual business directory for early 20th-century Los Angeles. The present work contains a complete list of companies..... 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 Ex-library Newark Free Public Library (withdrawn) with bookplate and ink stamps.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
![The Japanese American Directory 1923 No. 19 [cover title]. Japanese-Americana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1434_01.jpg?v=1594046258)
San Francisco: The Japanese American News, [1922]. 576pp. Contemporary printed wrappers with linen spine. Minor wear and soiling. Some minor scattered soiling and foxing to contents. Lightly toned. Rare Japanese-American directory published in San Francisco by Nichibei Shinbun, the Japanese American News. The Japanese newspaper was founded in 1899, and..... More
![The Japanese American Directory 1928 No. 24 [cover title]. Japanese-Americana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1435_01.jpg?v=1594046261)
San Francisco: The Japanese American News, [1927]. 48,312,228,84pp. Contemporary printed wrappers with linen spine. Wear and soiling to covers, corners a bit chipped. Some minor scattered soiling and foxing to contents. Lightly toned. Rare Japanese-American directory published in San Francisco by Nichibei Shinbun, the Japanese American News. The Japanese newspaper..... More
Los Angeles: Rafu Shimpo [Japanese Daily News], 1937. [2],[88],[8],95,[2],483,[1]pp. Original limp red cloth, covers gilt. Light wear and rubbing to binding, light soiling and wear to text; sections of three leaves excised (corner of one leaf from preliminary plates, and p.35 and 91 from first count). Japanese directory and yearbook..... More
Los Angeles: Rafu Shimpo [Japanese Daily News], 1938. [2],[66],8],110,[2],557,[5]pp. Original limp green cloth, gilt. Lightly worn at extremities, spine moderately worn. Japanese ink stamp on title page. Light scattered foxing and soiling, heavier to later leaves. Japanese directory and yearbook published by the Los Angeles Japanese Daily News. The first..... More
Los Angeles: Rafu Shimpo [Japanese Daily News], 1939. [2],[66],[8],80,[10],585,[3]pp. Original limp grey cloth, gilt. Moderate wear and soiling to binding; some light scattered soiling internally. Japanese directory and yearbook published by the Los Angeles Japanese Daily News. The first section is comprised of illustrated plates captioned in Japanese depicting Japanese-Americans..... More
![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
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
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
![Blue Book [cover title]. New Orleans](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1368_01.JPG?v=1590507438)
[New Orleans: ca. 1913]. [96]pp. 16mo. Original blue wrappers, printed in red, twice stapled. Lower spine end chipped; front hinge separating from foot. Light wear and soiling to wrappers. Small perforation to second text leaf. Light offsetting to initial and final leaves; light tanning throughout. The last edition of the..... 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
[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
Sioux Falls: Chas. Pettibone & Co., 1890. 107pp. Original printed boards with red leather spine. Somewhat crudely rebacked with paper tape, hinged cracked. Free endpaper advertisements detached and reaffixed with tape. Moderate wear to edges and corners. Institutional blind stamp to title page, manuscript call numbers on two leaves. Light..... More
[Austin]: 1919. 114pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Covers worn and chipped, moderate soiling and wear; spine mostly perished. Light dampstaining and mildewing to first few leaves. Moderate wear, a few contemporary notations to text. Scarce telephone directory for Austin, published by the Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company. Southwestern Telegraph..... 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., 1955. 424,152,54,68pp. 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