Denver, CO: Colorado Tent & Awning Company, 1921. Original edition. Loose sheets. 8.5" x 11" advertisement plus 8.5" x 11" letter to a customer on company letterhead. The Boston manufacturer of portable houses, E. F. Hodgson, sent a letter in 1921 to a Brookline (Mass.) woman who had ordered a.... More
Scranton, PA: The Colliery Engineer Co., 1900. First edition. Three-quarters leather, brown. Oblong Folio, (11 x 14 1/2) pp 100+ Profusely illustrated with b/w architectural, construction and geometric drawings throughout. Marbled end papers. This beautifully illustrated volume includes chapters on geometrical drawing, architectural drawing (stairs, doors, plans, facades, construction details)... More
Chicago, IL: Zouri, nd c. 1920s. Original edition. Two-fastener bound. Oversized folio (27"x17", folded into sixths), includes all 14 sheets. In the 1920s, the Zouri Drawn Metals Company invented a safer way to install storefront glass. Zouri's design utilizes a key-set sash in which the outer member of the sash... More
New York: William Helburn Inc., n.d. ca. 1920. First edition. Boards w/cloth spine, brown. Quarto,, pp. 21 plus 76 engraved plates. A significant book on the five Classical Orders of Architecture, illustrated with 76 engraved plates by author Esquié, a noted French architect who won the Grand Prix de Rome... More
Niles, MI: The Kawneer Company, nd c. 1940. First edition. Staplebound Wraps with cloth spine. Oversized folio (16"x22"), 13 pages of construction details, complete. This aluminum-framed, plate-glass storefront superceded the extreme ornamentation of the pre-war storefront. The construction details for Kawneer's K-47 line offer an insider's view on this new... More
Niles, MI: The Kawneer Company, 1945. First edition. Staplebound Wraps with cloth spine. Oversized folio (17"x22"), 14 pages of construction details, complete. The mid-twentieth century was a period of transition in the United States. Aluminum facades became the new face of downtown buildings, because they resisted rot much better than... More
Paris: Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1927-1931. Orginal 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
London: B. T. Batsford, 1893. Second Edition, with Four Additional Plates, one of which has been specially prepared for this work. Cloth over Boards. Folio (11"x15"), pp. vi, 9, plus 24 full page plates. A fine book illustrating ornaments and details of ancient buildings such as the Greek temple at... More
Chicago, IL: Celotex Corporation, 1942. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 24, illustrated with b/w photographs. This book offered practical and economical suggestions for enhancing the life and livability of a home at a time when labor and building materials were in short supply. The tone is very patriotic; it... More
Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate Art Books, 1996. Centennial reprint. Hardcover w/Dust Jacket. Quarto, pp 72. Beautifully illustrated with gravure b/w photographs and b/w illustrations of intricate, tapestry-like patterns. In 1896-1898, Frank Lloyed Wright printed 90 copies of The House Beautiful on a hand press. The book addressed the aesthetic, practical... More
New York: Time, Inc., 1939. First edition. Spiral Bound Stiff Wraps. Quarto, pp. 1-48, 234-320, 49-104. 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. Includes 50 examples of low cost homes built... More
Minneapolis, MN: The Architects Small House Service Bureau, 1929. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 40, b/w photographs and period advertising. This month's issue covers trees, stairways, chimney pots, upholstered furniture, varnish, color, texture, architectural drawings, Dutch Colonials, four house plans, contractors, and questions. A lot of interesting content for... More
London: William Heinemann, 1910. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto; Volume I: pp. x, 250. Volume II: pp. 368, index, with over 800 b/w photographs and illustrations between both volumes. The author was inspired on an artistic pilgrimage to research the origins of the styles of architecture which flourished in... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. First edition. Leather on boards, burgundy with brown back strip. Folio, lxxvi, pp 282., 41 total plates. A translation of some of Vitruvius's works by William Wilkins, a classical scholar and architect of the Georgian era in England. This is an exceedingly... More
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 2015/1965. Limited Edition. 18 1/2" x 27 1/2" Original Linocut Print on Magnani Artistico paper, with black ink 13" x 17" image. From the original linocut block. As well as a master book binder, Fritz Eberhardt was an internationally recognized calligrapher, type designer, woodcut artist, graphic... More
Bronx, NY: Great National Millwork & Lumber Corp. 1941. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, 80 pp. Thoroughly illustrated with b/w drawings and photos. A scarce wartime catalog, featuring numerous illustrations of the full line of Great National's building materials, such as doors, windows, kitchen cabinets, stair materials, summer cottages, garages... More
London: Crosby, Lockwood and Son, 1886. Tenth edition, revised and enlarged. Original Green Cloth w/gilt title. 12mo, pp. 160, indexed, includes many b/w illustrations; a 16-page Weale's book catalog, and a 32-page Crosby Lockwood book catalog bound in. In a preface to this edition, the author explained that the book... More
London and Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Co., 1877. First edition. Original Embossed Cloth Over Boards. 12mo, pp. 256. Indexed, illustrated with 481 b/w in-text Figures. newspaper clipping on stair building laid in. A very nice copy of this later 19th century trade manual on various aspects of construction. This... More
New York: Combination Ladder Company, nd c. 1905. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp 16. b/w and sepia illustrations. A scarce and historic trade piece from a company that grew during a period of rapid evolution in fire department equipment at the turn of the century, and developed ladders that... More
Providence, RI: Combination Ladder Company, 1900. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. 16mo, pp 32. cyan illustrations. A diverse ladder company that also carried rocking horses, flag poles, benches, clothes dryers, and other items that saw use every day in home life. The illustrations in this catalog are delightful. More
Montgomery Ward & Co., nd c. 1920. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto; pp. 64; well illustrated with b/w drawings. You've ordered a Montgomery Ward house, the supplies have been shipped to your home site; now what? This book carefully guides the new home owner from unloading the supplies to the... More
New York: Engineering News Record, 1935, 1936. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 95, illustrated with b/w graphs and charts; Quarto, pp. 128, illustrated with b/w graphs and charts; Octavo, pp. 16, illustrated with 2 b/w photographs. The first two books in this lot are the 1935 and 1936 editions... More
Philadelphia, PA: Grigg, Elliot And Co., 1848. Thirteenth Edition. Bound in brown leather with tan spine. Quarto, pp 117. Eighty-three (83) Copper plates. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaster Groins, Niches of Every Description, Skylights, Lines for Roofs, and Domes; With a Great Variety of Designs for... More
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1900. Seventh Edition. Original Cloth on Boards, beige w/embossed emblem & lettering. 12 mo, pp 312, indexed. 71 figures in b/w. + 66 pages of publisher's advertisements. A very thorough and detailed guide to these subjects - covering the properties of timber, seasoning timber, decay... More
Easton, PA: Alpha Portland Cement Company, 1919. Original edition. Loose sheet. 16.5" x 21.5", double-sided sheet containing scale b/w diagrams and b/w photos of ornamental concrete walls and gateways. A very nice Service Sheet with measured drawings and photos of ornamental concrete walls and gateways by Boston architects Harland Perkins... More
