Hicks-Judd Company, 1906. Hardcover. This fourth edition of the San Francisco Block Book was published just 6 months after the 1906 earthquake. "On account of the recent fire that visited our City, we were called on, within a period of twelve months, to issue a second volume of our Block.....

Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. Hardcover. An interesting little curiosity that combines two things you might adore: cocktails and literature. So Red the Nose includes comical cocktail recipes from writers starting with Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon Cocktail (absinthe + champagne, drink 3-5 of these). An introduction states the goal.....