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[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, else internally clean. Very good. Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing's Class of 1959. This copy was owned.....
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[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.....
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 concerns.....
Houston. 1871. 104,[1]pp. plus folding map. Small errata slip pasted to inside front wrapper. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping to wrappers, vertical split along front wrapper neatly repaired. Text evenly tanned. Splits along map folds neatly repaired on verso. Very good. A rare promotional pamphlet providing a favorable description.....
Portsmouth, N.H. 1860-1861. 168pp. plus [4]pp. of 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, New Hampshire, which lists the residents and includes a section on the city ordinances. Also includes a......
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.....
[San Francisco]: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1933. 32pp. including illustrated advertisement. Original printed brown wrappers, stapled. Wrappers somewhat stained, beginning to tear around staples, two holes punched in upper left for hanging. Evenly tanned, some chips and insect holes in the margins, rarely touching text. Later newsletter article.....
[San Francisco]: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1947. [2],44pp., printed in two columns, almost entirely in Chinese. Original printed green wrappers, stapled, hole punched in upper left corner to hang near a telephone. Two ink stamps of the "official Directory Library" in San Francisco on front wrapper. Occasional pencil.....
[San Francisco]: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1940. 36pp, printed in two columns, almost entirely in Chinese. Original printed green wrappers, stapled, hole punched in upper left corner to hang near a phone. Wrappers a bit stained. Light dampstain to fore margin throughout, and to bottom of last few.....
Leadville, Co. Ballenger & Richards, 1888-1890, 1892, 1897-1898, 1901-1904, 1911, 1913, 1918. Thirteen volumes. All volumes in original half calf, printed advertising boards, spine gilt, with cloth tab at head of spine for hanging. See detailed information below. Thirteen issues of the LEADVILLE CITY DIRECTORY spanning the turn of the.....
Leadville, Co. Corbett & Ballenger, 1885. [3],[29]-269,[6]pp., inclduing advertisements. Original half calf and printed paper boards, spine gilt. Wear, rubbing, and minor soiling to boards, minor loss to edges, tidelines and warping to front board and front pastedown, spine worn, hinges starting to loosen but still strong. Modern bookplate to.....
Leadville, Co. Democrat Printing Co., 1880. [15],[33]-431,[2]pp., including advertisements, plus [2]pp. of advertisements on light blue stock, and [2]pp. on pink stock. Lacks the leaf with pages 404-405. Original half calf and printed paper boards, spine gilt. Boards worn and rubbed, corners bumped, spine ends chipped, rear board and backstrip.....
Denver: The Colorado Mining Directory Co., [1883]. 908,[11]pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Original pebbled green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, gilt seal of Colorado and mountains on front board. Text edges stained red. Lightly tanned. Very good. An exhaustive directory of the Colorado mining industry during its heyday. Containing.....
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.....
Buffalo. 1828. 55,[5]pp. Folding frontispiece map. 12mo. Modern cloth. Tanned and foxed. Map mostly lacking, supplied in facsimile. Else good. The first directory of Buffalo, updated and printed annually for a number of years. Includes a history of the village as well.
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.....
[Duluth, Mn.]: 1899. [80],[32]pp. including illustrations. Original printed wrappers, backed with blue cloth. Wrappers heavily chipped. Occasional contemporary pencil annotations and ink stamp addition of an additional telephone line. Some leaves with marginal tears, but quite clean internally. Good plus. A pair of rare and early telephone directories for Duluth.....
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.....
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.
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.....
Utica: Elisha Harrington, 1828. 99pp., plus 16pp. of advertisements and errata. Lacks the map. Original printed boards with cloth spine. Rear board lacking significant portion of lower corner. wear to spine, front hinge partially separated. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Lightly foxed. A good copy of a rare work.....
Honolulu: Printed by C.C. Bennett, 1869 [i.e. 1871]. [2],80,[22],[2]pp., including bound-in index leaf from the first edition. Lacks the advertisement leaves. Pebbled purple cloth, front board stamped in gilt. Spine sunned, boards lightly stained. Text lightly tanned, scattered light foxing, index leaves trimmed quite close at head, without touching text.....
Honolulu: Pacific Commercial Advertiser Steam Print, [1886]. 108pp. plus [40]pp. of printed advertisements, many illustrated. Original printed blue front wrapper bound into modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front wrapper worn and soiled. Titlepage foxed and loosening, some wear to the edges of a few terminal leaves. Moderate.....
