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Worley's Directory of Dallas, Texas 1915
by [Dallas, Texas]
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About This Item
Dallas: J. F. Worley Directory Co, 1915. Quarto, 10.5x7," 920, [2]pp. Pink, yellow, and white paper throughout, text block stamped with ads on all edges. Blue cloth boards lettered in silver. Good condition, binding shaken with fraying at spine ends. Cloth of rear joint split 2/3 down from the top. Single leaf loose and laid in else clean and complete internally.
Serviceable copy of this uncommon directory from a booming time in Dallas. The years surrounding the first World War saw the city as an economic hub of the South, producing much of the country's cotton. Southern Methodist University was established in 1911 and opened its doors in 1915 due to construction delays. Several years later, Dallas would become the center of the nation's petroleum market.
Directories from Dallas in this time period are scarce.
Serviceable copy of this uncommon directory from a booming time in Dallas. The years surrounding the first World War saw the city as an economic hub of the South, producing much of the country's cotton. Southern Methodist University was established in 1911 and opened its doors in 1915 due to construction delays. Several years later, Dallas would become the center of the nation's petroleum market.
Directories from Dallas in this time period are scarce.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5112
- Title
- Worley's Directory of Dallas, Texas 1915
- Author
- [Dallas, Texas]
- Format/Binding
- Quarto, 10.5x7," 920, [2]pp. Pink, yellow, and white paper throughout, text block stamped with ads on all edges. Blue cloth boar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. F. Worley Directory Co
- Place of Publication
- Dallas
- Date Published
- 1915
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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