TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR BUCKEYE, CASA GRANDE, CHANDLER, FLORENCE, GLENDALE, MESA, PEORIA, PHOENIX, SUPERIOR, TEMPE, [AND] WICKENBURG, ARIZONA: Directory No. A-2 – Summer, 1925

The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company

El Paso, Texas: National Telephone Directory Co., Inc., 1925. Wraps. The personal and business listings for the greater Phoenix, Arizona region in 1925. A year later, the Southern Pacific Railroad’s main line was rerouted through Phoenix, fueling a tourism boom and further increasing a local population that numbered fewer than 30,000 at the beginning of the decade. This directory also includes an alphabetical street guide for Phoenix and day rates from long distance telephone service.

Tall octavo: [2], 52, [2], 28, [4] p. with numerous period advertisements, including the Yellow Cabs taxi tabbed insert. Original printed paper wrappers, which are bound with three staples and hole punched in the top left corner for the addition of a bookmark featuring advertising for Maricopa Butter on one side and the Pratt-Gilbert Company on the other. Typical mild toning to the contents. Short closed tear to the title page, with some mild creasing to the top corner of the first three leaves. The tab of the Yellow Cabs insert is creased, with some light fading along the extremities of the wrappers; else crisp, clean, and very good. Scarce, OCLC locates no holdings of this directory and only one of the Winter, 1933-34 directory at the Arizona State Library. Very good. Item #73792

Price: $600.00