Phone Book (6 results)
- Softcover
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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£ 10.82
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 121 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.28 inches. In Stock.
Published by THE TALKING PHONE BOOK, 2005
- Softcover
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises
Contact seller4-star sellerPAPERBACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. General wear, creases along cover and edges, some pages bent, light soiling on foredge DATE PUBLISHED: 2005 EDITION: 224.
Published by SUPERMEDIA, 2012
- Softcover
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises
Contact seller4-star sellerPAPERBACK BLUE. Condition: Fair. pages clean, mild shelf wear DATE PUBLISHED: 2012 EDITION: 56+445.
Published by Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Company Limited (1957), Halifax, 1957
Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, CanadaSchooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC)
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Add to basket160,30 Pp. Covers Amherst, Truro, New Glasgow, Pictou, Antigonish etc. Includes 30 page "Yellow Pages" in rear for New Glasgow Covers are detached and worn. Number- finder card from front is missing Card covers stapled at spine. Has hole at upper left so you can hang it by telephone. Illustration of Agricultural College Turo, NS on front cover.…
Published by Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Company Limited (1950), Halifax, 1950
Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, CanadaSchooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC)
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£ 19.16
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Add to basket136,22 Pp. Covers Amherst, Truro, New Glasgow, Pictou, Antigonish etc. Includes 22 page "Yellow Pages" in rear for Truro. Several ink & pencil notations throughout by previous owner mainly recording personal phone numbers. Covers are slightly worn Card covers stapled at spine.Has hole at upper left so you can hang it by telephone.…
More imagesPublished by New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, Boston, 1902
- Softcover
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Tavistock Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller1st edition thus. 968 pp. The textblock is divided into two section: "I. Boston Division. II. Outside of the Boston Division." Illustrated with 8 maps. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 6-5/8" The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company "was organized in 1883, by the consolidation of several local companies which had constructed exchanges in many of the more important cities and towns." [Boston Electrical Handbook. 1904]. NB. The "Important Notice" on p. 1 alerted subscribers to the introduction of the dial tone, i.e., "that [when] the desired line is busy [it] will be gradually replaced by a distinctive tone or hum. . it is thought that subscribers will quickly learn to recognize this special tone and hang up the telephone without waiting to be informed by the operator that the line is busy." At the time of cataloguing, no copy found on OCLC. Considering the practice was to annually discard these books, it's somewhat a surprise that this wonderful, and rare, artifact survived from the early history of telephony, and is now able to contribute more than a small dollop to research efforts into the period. Wear, soiling & chipping to wrappers. Faint stain to upper half of 1st leaf ["Important Notice"]. Age-toning to paper. An Abt VG copy. Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers, stapled. Cord hole to text block in upper left. The inside front cover displays various types of telephone apparatus.…
