Chinese Telephone Directory. November 1929. San Francisco and Oakland California

San Francisco: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co, 1929. Very good.. 40pp. Original printed wrappers. Light vertical crease, minor wear and soiling. A rare issue of this San Francisco phone directory published by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the local Chinese community, printed almost entirely in Chinese aside from the front cover (which also bears the title in Chinese). The directory served the large but still somewhat isolated Chinese populations in the Bay Area, this issue with listings for both San Francisco and Oakland. OCLC locates runs of this directory of varying completeness for the interwar years in about a dozen institutions. Pre-depression issues are particularly scarce.