![BLACK BUSINESS DIRECTORY. VOLUME I NUMBER 2. 1969 - 1970 WINTER EDITION [caption title]. African...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55761.jpg?v=1594920186)
[Los Angeles. 1969]. iv,36pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Minimal edge wear, minor occasional toning. Near fine. A rare business directory intended for use by the African-American community of Los Angeles at the end of the turbulent 1960s. It follows the first issue published for the summer of 1969, and appears.....
![THE BLACK DIRECTORY LAWRENCE, KANSAS [wrapper title]. African Americana, Kansas](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55493.jpg?v=1593712062)
[Lawrence, Ks. 1969]. 30,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor staining to wrappers. Internally clean. Very good. An uncommon directory "compiled for the convenience of the Black Citizens of East and North Lawrence in finding the addresses and phone numbers of their friends and colleagues." The work was sponsored by a quartet.....
![CITY OF NEW YORK HARLEM HOSPITAL H.H.S.N. 1959 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55457.jpg?v=1593712045)
[New York. 1959]. 64pp. Quarto. Red textured cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear. Occasional ink notations by original owner, otherwise clean internally. Very good. Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing's Class of 1959. This copy was owned.....
![PROFECTUS 1956 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55456.jpg?v=1593712045)
[New York. 1956]. 80pp. Quarto. Contemporary black cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively-tooled and titled in gilt. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "Joan Ryan '59'" on verso of front free endpaper (likely a future graduate of the same nursing program). Internally clean. Very good.....
Nevada, Ca. Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1867. vi,[6],424pp. With the advertisement leaf, not found in all copies, inserted between pp.184 and 185. This copy does not contain the small advertisement after p. vi, which, according to Quebedeaux, does not appear in all copies. Contemporary printed.....
Boston: Damrell & Moore and George Coolidge, [1860]. xiii,[1],[9]-204,301-522pp. (as issued, pp. 205-300 purposely omitted in the pagination) plus folding map and [10]pp. (including pastedowns) of advertisements printed on blue and yellow paper. Quarto. Original three-quarter leather and pictorial paper boards, spine gilt. Rebacked, with most of original backstrip laid.....
New Orleans: Pelican Book and Job Printing Office, 1877. [2],xxxvii,[1],138pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Some soiling and edge wear, spine chipped and worn. Text toned, with a tiny wormhole throughout. Withal, very good. A notable Reconstruction-era Louisiana crop report, and the last published by Louis Bouchereau. The first portion of the.....
Cincinnati. 1867. [6],116pp. Illus. Original cloth backed boards. Advertising matter adhered to front cover and rear covers. Wear at extremities. Several pages detached or loose, but complete. Good. A scarce Cincinnati business directory, described as the "second issue" in the introduction. Full of illustrated advertisements for all manner of industrial.....
Portsmouth, N.H. 1860-1. 168pp. plus [4]pp. ads at front. 16mo. Original blindstamped cloth, expertly rebacked with new cloth spine. Some black ink stains on covers. Tanned. Else good. City directory for Portsmouth, N.H., which lists the residents and includes a section on the city ordinances. Also includes a list of.....
San Francisco: Printed by Monson, Valentine & Co., 1856. xxxix,[1],140pp., followed by [8]pp. of advertisements. Original half sheep and printed green boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed, stained, and edgeworn. Bookplate on front free endpaper. A touch of occasional foxing or tanning, but generally quite clean and neat internally. A very.....
San Francisco: Henry G. Langley, 1867. xcvi,698,88pp. Later half sheep and printed boards, spine gilt. Spine leather worn and chipped, boards rubbed, cloth tape around edges. Initial and final leaves used as pastedowns. No map present. Bookplate on front pastedown. One leaf with extensive tape repairs, several other with minor.....
Oakland: Paolo Sioli, 1883. [8],272pp. plus forty-nine plates, including illustrated titlepage (fourteen of them affixed to full-sheet sheets, the rest printed on the full-sheet). Quarto. Original half pebbled leather and cloth boards, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, edges marbled. Spine leather rubbed and faded, neatly recased. Two ownership.....
Oakland. 1896. 104,[2]pp. including dozens of illustrations, with text printed in double columns. Oblong quarto. Original pebbled cloth, title in gilt on front board, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Titlepage and following three leaves with slight wear at foredge, else quite clean internally. Very good. A marvelous illustrated.....
Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co., 1869. [6],275,[2]pp., including index and in-text advertisements. Original half pigskin and printed paper boards, spine gilt. Boards quite rubbed, scuffed, and soiled. Rear blank endpaper lacking. Final text leaf (index leaf) torn in upper outer corner, not affecting text. Several instances of early ink or.....
Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1876. 68,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine worn, front wrapper loose. Internally clean. Very good. A reprint of the first Chicago business directory, with a history of the publication of that directory included in the introduction.
Syracuse: Printed at the Journal Office, 1872. 417pp. including folding map and advertisements (some printed on gold or blue paper). Original stamped, pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Very slight wear to spine ends, corners bumped. Touch of early foxing, but a very good copy. An information-laden directory for two upstate New.....
New Haven: J.H. Benham, 1851. [3],xxiv,[17]-400,[3]pp. (including pastedowns) plus one plate. Publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Hinges cracked. Cloth moderately worn. Light stains and foxing in outer leaves, toning throughout. Ex-lib., with institutional plate on titlepage. Bookseller's inkstamp and bookplates of John J. Ford, Jr., and Benjamin DeForest.....
Washington. [1822; i.e. ca. 1922]. xx,[13]-148pp. plus six engraved leaves of advertisements. The entire work in facsimile. 12mo. Original half roan and printed boards. Slightly rubbed. Very good. The first directory of Washington, in facsimile, particularly interesting for its listing of the lodgings for members of Congress. Originally printed in.....
Washington: John T. Towers, 1846. x,[2],104,[44],*76pp. Dbd. Gatherings loose. Titlepage with small loss at top edge, gouge on center of page with minor loss. Light wear and soiling. Good. Washington directory, containing an almanac, a list of local banks and churches, steamboat and stagecoach times, forty-four pages of ads for.....
Rochester. 1827. 141,[15]pp. Folding frontispiece map. Original half calf and printed boards. Boards a bit rubbed. Moderate foxing; discreet personal library stamp on third page. Map clean, small tear along fold repaired. About very good. In a cloth chemise and red slipcase. This is the first directory of Rochester, and.....
Springfield, Mo. Printed at the Office of the Patriot-Advertiser, 1878. [iii]-273pp. plus folding map and two inserted advertisements, one printed on blue paper and one printed in red on cream paper. Contemporary half blue calf and blue cloth boards, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed, worn at corners and spine ends. Springfield.....
New York. 1851. 82pp. plus folding map. Original cloth stamped in gilt and blind, expertly rebacked. Very good. The first reprint edition of the extremely rare first New York directory of 1786. The folding map is a facsimile of one included with the directory of 1789.
[Np. nd, ca. 1850s]. 82pp. plus folding map. Early 19th-century speckled calf. Distressed and split along spine. Pages tanned and dampstained, map detached and worn. Else good. A crudely constructed fake, made to look like an original copy of the rare 1786 New York City directory by Franks. Most likely.....
Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexican Printing Company, 1890. 216pp. plus tipped-in errata slip and two large lithographed folding maps. Original tinted pictorial wrappers. Expertly mended along joint of front wrapper. Text a bit toned, but clean. Very good. First edition of this uncommon promotional for the territory of New Mexico.....
Marysville: Printed at the Marysville Herald Office, 1853. [4],133pp. Original half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, a few small nicks in the spine leather, corners exposed. Top quarter of front free endpaper torn. Numerous "Received" rubberstamps of the Marysville Sheriff's Office throughout the text, some.....
