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
New York: McBride, Winston & Co., 1911. First edition. Original Cloth over Boards, brown, w/embossed design & lettering. Quarto, pp 173. Illustrated profusely with b/w photographs and plans. A 1912 gift inscription in pencil on title page. A previous owner signed the inside of the front cover in ink in... 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
Denver, CO: The Architects' Small House Service Bureau, 1922. First edition. Decorated boards with cloth spine. Folio (10 1/2 X 15 1/2), pp. 86 plus 36-page advertising section bound in; illustrated with b/w perspective drawings and house plans. Previous owner signed front end paper. For those who wanted a small... 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
Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1991. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp 232. Illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The Arts and Crafts movement flowered in the 1870s and 80s as a reaction to the decorative excesses of the mid-19th century. At its heart was a search for a return... 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
New York: Taschen, 2016. First edition. Hardback w/embossed paper covers and Dust Jacket. Folio, pp 416. Gorgeous color images on almost every page. Text in English, French, and German. Together with a traveling exhibition through the Germany and Austria, this volume shows Viennese woodblocks from the turn of the century... More
New York: Grolier Club, 2018. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 471, indexed, illustrated with over 1,200 color photographs. This book was published to accompany the exhibition "Playing Soldier" that was on display at the Grolier Club in New York City in the fall of 2018. If you enjoyed... More
New York: Grolier Club, 2013. First edition, Limited. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 288. Illustrated with 749 color illustrations. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. A beautifully produced, visually spectacular catalog for the exhibit of the same name, showing at New York's Grolier Club through February of 2014. Written by exhibit... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. First paperback edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. x, 467, bibliography, index, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the technics of building form. Concentrating on developments in Europe and North America from... 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
Lyons, IA: General Roofing Manufacturing Company, nd. c. 1910. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 400, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs and some sections in color (stained glass, parquetry floor borders). Disbrow was established in 1856, and manufactured doors, windows, frames, screens, mouldings, stairs, columns, and more. They... More
Chicago: Montgomery Ward & Co., 1928. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong Quarto, 48 pp. Thoroughly illustrated with b/w drawings and photos, fabulous front and back illustrations. Order form and envelope laid in. A scarce Montgomery Ward catalog from the 1920s, featuring a beautiful color cover and numerous illustrations of the... More
Niles, MI: Kawneer Co., 1961. Original edition. Three-ring binder, blue vinyl with yellow lettering. Quarto 3-ring binder, with four tabbed sections (fronts and facings; entrances; wall systems; and Sealair windows), each containing brochures and specification sheets. A very scarce mid-century trade publication depicting specifications, descriptions, and images of Kawneer products... More
New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 1897. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 885, b/w illustrations. This is a title we haven't had before. Chapters on practical carpentry, painting, furniture and cabinet finishing, horse shoeing, diseases of the horses foot, soap making and washing fluids, candy making, baking, taxidermy, tanning... 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
Boston: Bates & Guild, 1899. First edition. Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Large quarto, pp. 37 with 33 full page plates and 6-page advertising section bound in, housed in a custom box. Signed on front end paper by original owner. A wonderful book of construction detail drawings: most plates include... More
Chicago, IL: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, 1944. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps, green. Quarto, pp. 130, illustrated with b/w drawings, photographs and spot color. Touted as "The World's Greatest Building Paper," this magazine was avidly read by those in the construction and building material trades. Topics in this issue discussed war construction... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1980. Fifth edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 366. Indexed, bibliography, illustrated with numerous b/w photos and drawings. Designed as a practical road map of home repairs, this helpful guide shows you how to recover and preserve the spirit of an old dwelling while... More
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1923. First edition. Half-Leather. Octavo, pp. vi, 392, vii, index, b/w illustrations of electrical components and installation, beam and column sections, construction details, joints, trusses, etc. As with all of the ICS trades-related titles, good solid professional text, well illustrated and aimed at the tradesman... 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
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1909. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. approx. 600, indexed, richly illustrated w/ b/w drawings and engravings, fold-out plans and b/w photographs. Unusually pristine copy! As with all of the ICS trades-related titles, good solid professional text, well illustrated and aimed at the tradesman... More
Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2006. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp.144, richly illustrated with color photographs. When talk turns to architects who have made their mark in the San Francisco Bay Area, it often stops after two names-Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan. Widely admired, they are the stuff... More
