- Boyd's Philadelphia Blue Book, Elite Directory. Fashionable Private Address Directory, the Ladies' Visiting and Shopping Guide, and Philadelphia Club List

Philadelphia, C.E. Howe Co, 1905. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt tooling and lettering on front, rear, and spine; all edge gilt; 1000 pp; bw and color advertisements throughout. From title page: In Eight Parts. Containing the names of 25,000 prominent householders, arranged alphabetically and classified by streets, to which is added 10,000 names and post-office addresses of the 'Elite' of over 100 Towns within a radius of twenty-five miles, and the names of officers and members of the principal clubs of Philadelphia. Good (shelfwear to boards, several beginning pages are dog-eared, several pencil markings throughout mostly on advertisement pages.Previous owner's name is on front end page in ink. Text is otherwise very clear.) .

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