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...
Chicago, IL: Murdison Company, 1926. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong folio (15"x10.5"), pp. 54, illustrated with b/w photographs of architectural ornaments. Price list laid in. Anaglypta is a range of paintable textured wallcoverings made from paper or vinyl. It was the first washable wall covering and appealed to Victorians...
New York: Time, Inc., 1951. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, each issue over 200 pp., indexed. Illustrated with b/w and color photographs and drawings. Trade advertisements throughout. Mild ex-library. An outstanding collection of building projects and concerns during the Korean War era. Includes Frank Lloyd Wright projects, a rotogarage...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2012. First edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Small quarto, pp 384, indexed. 39 Color photographs of store front facades and streets. b/w photographs throughout the volume. "'Signs, Streets, and Storefronts' addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America's commercial...
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...
New York: Hearst Publications, 1951. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 22. Indexed. A typewritten compilation of the products that were advertised in Good Housekeeping magazine and covered by the Good Housekeeping Consumer's Guaranty, which provides replacement or refund if not as advertised. Scarce! We've never had a copy of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
London: Thomas Kelly, 1854. First edition. Embossed cloth over boards. Quarto, pp. viii, 232, with over 45 full page plates and b/w illustrations. What a treasure! We've never had a copy of this before. This book followed Nicholson's popular "Practical Carpentry, Joinery and Cabinet Making," and Nicholson intended cover the...
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...
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...
