New York: Automobile Club of America, 1911. 876pp. Original limp leatherette covers, gilt lettered. Edges and spine ends chipped, rear joint cracking. Fore-edge straps lacking; metal bosses remaining on front cover. Light tanning, occasional light dampstaining internally. A scarce national route guide for early touring motorists, published annually by the... More
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
Los Angeles: Home Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1910. 639,[1]pp. Original printed card covers. Light wear to spine and corners, faint dampstaining to spine. Minor wear to contents. An early Los Angeles Telephone directory, divided into personal and classified sections. The first segment of the directory lists telephone exchanges for personal... More
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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
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 Ex-library Newark Free Public Library (withdrawn) with bookplate and ink stamps.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
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
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. Spine heavily chipped and worn, front cover detached. First leaf of ads detached. Minor wear and soiling to contents. First proper directory for the city of Pierre, South Dakota, founded in 1880, after a small... 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