Boston: Walker LIthograph, 1890's. 32 X 22 lithograph, Coast of Maine from NH border & Portsmouth to Rockport and Camden, in blues, red and green colors. Beautiful four-color original, frames up beautifully, perfect souvenir from that summer vacation! More
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
Pasadena, CA: Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association of Pasadena, nd c. 1920. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 55, illustrated with sepia-toned photographs. Stamped on the cover by California Stucco Products Company of Portland, Oregon. A showcase of homes in Pasadena, California, with minimal text and 99 photographs of... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1855. First edition (third thousand). Original Brown Embossed Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8), pp. x, 443, illustrated w/drawings, frontspiece, Hitchcock 1367. Signed by original owner on front endpaper. One of the earliest books to describe balloon framing. The author emigrated to America from England... More
Torino, Italy: Stabilimento Tipografico Carlo Accame, nd c. 1880s. First edition. Hard Cover. Oblong folio (12"x16"), 46 full page plates. Text in Italian. From what we can decipher from the Italian, this is a theoretical-practical course of civil architecture, that is the students' vignette containing the five orders of Giacomo... More
London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1933. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. viii, 78, plus 84 half tone plates of store exterior and interior features. This is a delight for anyone interested in shop architecture and design, from the street where it is located to the lighting and display... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing Company, 1942. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 87, illustrated with b/w photographs, plans and drawings. Owner's signature on front end paper. Hartnell was Managing Director of George Parnall Ltd. He gives sound advice on designing stylish shop fronts and presents examples of good practice, including... 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 This aluminum-framed, plate-glass storefront superceded the extreme ornamentation of the pre-war storefront.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
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992. Second edition. Paperback. Quarto, pp. 216, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. This book documents the historical, technical and cultural forces that shaped the development of this distinctive West Coast building type. The authors's in-depth research and analysis is enhanced by the inclusion of numerous... More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852. Sixth edition. Quarter leather with gilt illustrated and embossed cloth over boards. Quarto, pp. 191, illustrated with b/w engravings, with glossary of architectural terms, technical terms used in masonry and building, and Rules of Work (originally adopted by the carpenters of the city... More
Exeter, UK: Historic Building Geometry, 2017. Limited Edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 31. Illustrated with color and b/w photos and drawings. There are two recent books that focus on the remarkable timber framed ceiling of Saint David's Cathedral nave. This book is the author's response to the stimulus of those... More
New York: Garden City Publishing, 1937. Second edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp 128, indexed. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Detailed practical information on finance, construction plans, heating and air conditioning, insulation, lighting, flooring, roofing, siding, kitchen design, and much more. The first 50 pages is a compilation of articles... More
Minneapolis, MN: ASHSB, Inc, 1925. First edition. Color Decorated Wraps. Quarto, pp. 48. illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. A group of Minnesota architects created the ASHSB in 1914 to provide a solution for theshortage of middle class housing in the U.S. By 1925, this monthly publication included articles on... More
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1988. First edition. Original Black Cloth. Quarto, pp. 104. A careful selection of Jack Boucher's photographs. Boucher was the primary photographer for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) for nearly 50 years. From the library of Old House Journal. 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
Washington, D.C. National Park Service, December 1975. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps with 3-ring binder holes punched out. Quarto, pp. 24, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Until recent times it has been very difficult if not impossible to determine components, structural condition, physical condition and alterations in a building's fabric... More
New York: Time, Inc., April 1933. First edition. Original Wraps. Folio, pp. 132, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. This is an absolutely beautiful magazine in very remarkable condition. On page 52, there is a long article entitled "Mass-produced Houses in Review," which reviewed the progress of the prefabricated house... More
Chicago, IL: Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company, 1915. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 65. Illustrated with full page b/w photographs. Buildings that were erected in Chicago after the great fire in 1871 were already being torn down by 1915, because the replacement buildings were erected before the age of concrete... More
Ames, IA: Midwest Plan Service, 1971. Original edition. Color Pictorial Wraps, light blue. Quarto, pp 74. b/w drawings with spot color. The purpose of this handbook is to help people plan or select adequate, comfortable, functional, and satisfying housing for their families. Useful whether you intend to build a new... More
London: William Pickering, 1842. First edition. Embossed cloth over boards. Folio (11 X 14), 2-page preface, 59 beautiful colored original plates, in various print mediums, many hand-colored, depicting tiles, stained gl;ass panels and borders, capitala and columns, draperies, ironwork, ornaments in wood and plaster, etc. A selection of the purest... 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
Chicago, IL: American Technical Society, 1948. Revised. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 367, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. As long as the unrivaled beautify of classic architecture is appreciated and reproduced, a knowledge of the five Greco-Roman Orders is invaluable. This book offers a key to an understanding... More
