New York: Funk & Wagnils, 1965. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 111, illustrations by the author. Includes a color plate of 20 sections of typical American woods. Tells of how different kinds of trees and their wood figured in the American story. Includes a section on identification of nearly... More about A Reverence for Wood
Milwaukee, WI: City of Milwaukee, 1997. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Oblong quarto, pp. 116, illustrated with b/w drawings. This publication is intended to help property owners better understand the Historic Preservation Commission's preservation guidelines for locally-designated houses by illustrating the do's and don'ts for some of the more common... More about Living with History; A Guide to the Preservation Standards for Historically Designated Houses in...
Paris: Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1927-1931. Original printing. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, each issue about 50 pages. Includes bound edition of 1928-1929 issues, plus 35 single issues between 1927 and 1931. Several magazines have detached covers, and most have flaking edges and typical magazine wear at the spine. Bound edition... More about Lot of La Construction Moderne magazines
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards. Small Quarto (8 x 11), pp. 214. Contains index of architects whose work appears in book.. 232 b/w photographs and drawings. Interesting perspective, based often purely on the time, i.e. the absolutely first wave of the post-war era. A.... More about Tomorrow's House; How to Plan your Post-War Home Now
Norfolk, VA: Gentle Beam Publications, 2010. First edition, limited. Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 326. Bibliography. Richly illustrated with b/w photos and reproduced catalog pages. A fascinating look at Montgomery Ward's collection of kit homes, ordered by catalog and shipped by rail throughout the U.S. A valuable research tool, a helpful... More about Montgomery Ward's Mail-Order Homes (signed by the author); A History and Field Guide to Wardway...
Budapest: Muszaki Konyvkiado, 1981. First edition. Decorated Boards. Small quarto, pp. 283, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Text in Hungarian. This book takes stock of the development and domestic practice of modular coordinated building systems and design methodology, referring to the international dimension of the subject. It provides... More about A Modulkoordinalt Epitesi Rendszer (The Modular Coordinated Building System
New York: Time, Inc., 1941. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 1-52, 211-304, 53-134. Richly illustrated with b/w photographs. An interesting and uncommon issue of Architectural Forum, featuring a series of articles around the topic of a low cost house. Houses designed for government's defense housing projects was the emphasis... More about The Architectural Forum, Volume 75, Number Four, October, 1941
nd c. 1890. Paper with wooden, hand grain-painted frame. Frame is 16.25" x 12.25" and is hand painted to simulate wood grain. Art is supported with a cardboard backing that shows sign of some water damage in the past, but it has not affected the artwork. This attractive pastoral scene... More about Framed Hat Box Art
Reston, VA: Brick Institute of America, 1973. Second revised. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 69, indexed, b/w photographs, construction details, and tables. A workbook for brick construction and wall design with descriptions of structural properties, materials analysis and plenty of construction details for the various types of brick and tile walls... More about Principles of Clay Masonry Construction; Student's Manual
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1899. Tenth Edition, Carefully Revised, With Additions. Original Cloth on Boards. 12mo, pp 116, illustrated with 68 woodcuts; 48-page Weale's publishers catalog bound in. A popular introductory manual to the trade from the late 19th century covering general principles, architectural drawings, methods such as pointing... More about The Rudiments of Practical Bricklaying; in six sections: general principles of bricklaying; arch...
St. Louis, MO: Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, 1914. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong small quarto, pp. 32, limited edition and numbered. This book was aimed at eliminating as much of the labor as possible for the draughtsman's preparation of working drawings for ornamental brickwork. The introductory text describes in detail... More about Brick-Scale Tables
Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1878. First edition. Bound in modern red half leather with marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Folio, pp. 43 of text (in French) with b/w line drawings, plus 75 full page chromolithographic plates. Very scarce and beautiful collection of brickwork and details of French buildings with... More about La Brique Ordinaire; Au Point de Vue Decoratif, 1re Serie
Dublin, NH: Yankee Books, 1977. Fourth printing. Paperback. Small quarto, pp. 63, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. A practical guide to the homeowner who wishes to date, renovate, or use an existing brick oven, or to construct a new one. The book explains the evolution of the brick oven... More about The Forgotten Art of Building and Using a Brick Bake Oven; A guide to the homeowner who wishes to...
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1908. Original edition. Original Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 316, indexed. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photos. This volume discussed the qualities of clays which can be manufactured into satisfactory pavers, the means in determining those qualities, and the methods of testing. The authors believed this... More about Paving Brick and Paving Brick Clays of Illinois; Bulletin #9
Lancaster, PA: Armstrong Cork Co., 1953. First edition. Cloth over Boards, beige. Quarto, pp 233, indexed. Color illustrations and charts on every page. Patterned free end papers. A colorful and extensive catalog of linoleum finish materials including flooring, tiles, wall coverings, bases, counter-tops, asphalt, plastics, and more. A very nice... More about Armstrong's 1953 Linoleum (trade catalog
Chicago, IL: Home Builders Catalog Co., 1926. First edition. Cloth over Boards, brown, w/Gilt design & lettering. Quarto, pp 1032, indexed. b/w photographs, some colored renderings, floor plans, and illustrations on virtually every page! A "Sweet's" catalogue for the residential builder, with insulation, flues, asbestos shingles, cedar products, elevators, windows... More about Home Builders Catalog 1926, A Reference Work for Building Contractors and Home Owners; Containing...
Chicago, IL: Home Builders Catalog Co., 1927. Second edition. Burgundy Cloth over Boards with Gilt design & lettering. Quarto, pp 1256, indexed. b/w photographs, some colored renderings, floor plans, and illustrations on virtually every page. A "Sweet's" catalogue for the residential builder, with insulation, flues, asbestos shingles, cedar products, elevators... More about Home Builders Catalog, A Reference Work for Building Contractors and Home Owners; Containing...
New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1932. First edition. Stock Covers. Journal. pp 186 plus 26-page advertising section. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Includes an excellent article on terrazo craftsmanship, a remarkable material with beautiful applications. Also an extended (65 examples) architectural portfolio of exterior residential stairways of various... More about Architecture - March 1932; The Professional Architectural Monthly
New York: Frank M. Snyder, 1906-1913. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Elephant Folio (16" x 21.5"). each part contains 10 full page plates of building and architectural features plans, several with b/w photos and period ads inside the cover. Part 1 has a water stain on front cover. Part 3's cover... More about Building Details, Parts 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 (incomplete
Cleveland, OH: American Steel & Wire Company, 1939. Original edition. Spiral Bound Wraps. 16mo, pp. 128, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. This company made nails for all purposes: basket, barrel, hinge, roofing, fence, clinch, finishing, and many many more. Includes a manual of carpentry bound in, covering topics such has... More about Catalog of United States Steel American Nails; with specifications and data covering staples,...
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co. for Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1911. Revised. Cloth over Embossed, Decorated Boards. Octavo, pp. 261 (Hodgson's Estimator and Contractor's Guide), 261 (Guide to Correct Measurements) plus rear section of house plans and publishers' ads (not numbered; about 70 pages). Special exclusive edition printed expressly... More about Builders' Reliable Estimator and Contractors' Guide: A Complete Guide for Pricing All Builders'...
London: International Correspondence Schools, Ltd, nd c. 1910. Reprint. Boards. Octavo, pp. vi, approx. 480 w/many drawings & illustrations throughout, including color plates and a foldout floor plan. As with all of the ICS trades-related titles, good solid professional text, well illustrated and aimed at the tradesman of the early... More about ICS #41B - Joinery, Stair Building, Ironmongery, Plastering, Glass and Glazing, Painting and...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1906. First edition, first thousand. Full Leather. 12 mo, pp. 226, indexed, illustrated w/line drawings. This volume was intended by the author to be just what its title implies: a ready-reference manual for the use of the carpenter and wood-worker, a book to... More about The Building Mechanics' Ready Reference; Carpenters and Woodworkers' Edition
London: Charles Griffin and Company, Limited, 1895. Original edition. Embossed cloth over Boards. Small octavo, pp xiv, 238, appendix (with fold-out table in excellent condition), indexed, with fold-out b/w illustration; 32-page publisher's catalog bound in. History of cement and Portland cement in particular, including composition, manufacturing and drying processes, calcination... More about Calcareous Cements; their nature and uses,with some observations upon cement testing
London: Constable & Company, 1913. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 412. Indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Ex-library. Chapters include raw materials for cements, concretes and bricks; methods of manufacturing; chemical and physical changes in preparation of these materials; testing their properties, and more. One of the... More about Cement, Concrete and Bricks
