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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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: 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

New York: Methuen, Inc., 1977. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 178, indexed, illustrated with b/w diagrams and drawings. This book tried to anticipate what computer-aided design systems would be like, and what their impact would be on architects and other designers. The book is written from... More about The Automated Architect; Human and Machine Roles in Design

Fitchburg, MA: Angel Novelty Co., n.d. (ca. 1952). Original edition. Metal comb binding in wraps. Small quarto, pp.75 plus insert pages, dealer discount sheet, and price list. More about Angel Novelty Co. Catalog - Presenting Angel's New Line of Standardized Woodwork for the Home

Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2015. First edition. Hard Cover. Small quarto, pp. 96. Indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design. Though they are best known to the general public for their furniture, the husband and wife duo of Charles and Ray Eames were... More about Eames: Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism