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Public Service Rate Book
by (Old Colony Trust Company)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: The Barta Press for the Old Colony Trust Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A fabulous piece of original Americana and historical reference. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 185 pages. A very good, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear, bottom front corner bumped, light soiling to back cover, hinges and binding tight, paper clean and lightly yellowed. The remains of a leather cord loop that would allow it to hang from a hook has broken away. Seldom appearing on the market, this resource is invaluable as historical business reference; including information on 'Boston Elevated Special Cars' the United Fruit Steamship service and the Hotel Titchfield in Jamaica, Thayer Shoes, and seating in all the major Boston theatres, etc.. Copies were distributed to public service establishments with the compliments of the Old Colony Trust Company. Rates include phone costs, train fares, transatlantic sailings, theatres and hotels and more. Many wonderful B&W advertisements (frontispiece in color), charts, photographs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7563
- Title
- Public Service Rate Book
- Author
- (Old Colony Trust Company)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Barta Press for the Old Colony Trust Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Boston; Americana; Technology; Reference; Business
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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About the Seller
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About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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