BOYD'S BLUE BOOK. The Fashionable Private Address Directory
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
1885. (PHILADELPHIA). BOYD'S BLUE BOOK. The Fashionable Private Address Directory and Ladies' Visiting and Shopping Guide of Philadelphia and Surroundings. The Names of 20,000 Prominent Householders, Arranged Alphabetically and Classified by Streets. To Which Is Added 6,500 Names and Post Office Addresses of the "Elite" of 100 Towns within a Radius of Twenty Miles. For the Year Ending, June, 1886. Season of 1885-6. Phila.: C.E. Howe Co., 1885. 1st ed. 488pp. Orig. gilt pictorial cloth, A.e.g. Light wear to spine ends and corners, faint uniform toning, one leaf tape-repaired, former owner's name on titlepage, else very good. Many pictorial advertisements including stained glass, awnings, shoes, cutlery, organs, banks, burglar alarms, furnaces, corsets, and hotels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- George S. MacManus Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77115
- Title
- BOYD'S BLUE BOOK. The Fashionable Private Address Directory
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- PHL, DIRECTORIES, PAXX
Terms of Sale
George S. MacManus Company
We accept VS or MC or we will hold for a check. Books may be returned with the original packing slip within 7 days. Domestic Shipping via UPS is $5.00 for 1st volume, $2.50 for each additional volume. International rates given upon request.
About the Seller
George S. MacManus Company
Biblio member since 2005
Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania
About George S. MacManus Company
Our inventory of over 45,000 catalogued titles focuses primarily on 18th and 19th century Americana with specialities such as Voyages and Travels, Local Histories, Indians and the West and the Civil War. Also included in our collection are English and American literary first editions, Limited Edition Club selections and Books about Books.
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