New Haven, CT: Penguin Books, 1980. Later printing. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 344, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The author's unique and vivid picture of the English upper classes at home over 500 years has won the W. H. Smith & Son Annual Literary Award and the Duff Cooper..... More
Doncaster, UK: BTCV Publications, 2010. Third revised. Spiral-bound with Color Cardboard Wraps. Quarto, pp. 159. Indexed, Appendices, Bibliography, Glossary, Conversion tables. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Part of BTCV's "Practical Handbook" series, covering walls in the landscape, dry stone walls and conservation, safety and equipment, and other aspects of building, repairing..... More
Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1949. Third edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xii, 294, indexed, no illustrations. Signed by previous owner John H. Harvey, BM/NPOR, with his annotations neatly in the margins of the text. The first three chapters of this book deal chiefly with the economic history..... More
New York: Dykes Lumber Company (self published), 1936. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 4" x 9", pp. 56, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. A price list and a sheet of other products laid in. A very nice 1930s trade piece, from a very ambitious New York-based lumber company. Glass mouldings, stop..... More
New York: Bonanza, nd c. 1970. Reprint of 1932 edition, first thus. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 212, indexed, illustrated with 300 b/w photographs and 32 pages of detailed architectural drawings. A comprehensive study in the form of photographs and detailed drawings, mostly domestic, which show the influence of successive..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1923. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12mo, pp. 202, illustrated with b/w drawings and engravings. Ex-library markings. The author strove to make this book capable of meeting the real needs of those who wish to do small, or even large, jobs of painting. Chapters on interior and..... More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Company, 1910. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Small octavo, pp. 440, xxv, indexed, illustrated with over 100 b/w drawings and engravings. Ex-library markings. This is not merely the compiling and putting together the writings and antiquated methods which have been put to use by..... More
Cleveland, OH: The Sherwin-Williams Co., 1942. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 34, illustrated with b/w photographs. Everything a sales person needed to know about interior wall finishes in the 1940s: wall primer and sealer, wall mixing size, plastering, tinting, painting over calcimine or casein paints or resin emulsion paint..... More
New York: G. E. Woodward, 1869. First edition. Cloth over Boards, gilt lettering. Quarto, pp. x, 15, 48, plus 100 pp of plates, Hitchcock #1436. A wonderful visual resource for architects, designers, and restorers; includes detailed drawings and plans in scale. "One of the scarcer Woodward items, it contains designs..... More
Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Corrugating Company, 1925. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w photographs. In the early 20th century, a new American Period in architecture found expression through plaster. No longer was plaster regarded as merely a base for decoration; it had become the decoration itself. Texture and..... More
Washington DC: Natl Trust for Historic, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Oblong small quarto, pp. 126, 26 bathroom plans, over 200 illustrations. Reprints two catalogs of bathroom fixtures from the early 20th century: the 1914 Modern Plumbing catalog (#8) by the J. L Mott Iron Works of New York, and Planning..... More
Washington, D.C. The Preservation Press, 1992. First edition. Hard Cover. Quarto, pp. 288, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. In October 1991, preservationists, public officials, historians, museum administrators, and educators gathered in San Francisco to mark the 25th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the 75th anniversary..... More
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Museum, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 132, illustrated with b/w photographs. No other photographer captured the face and mood of Louisiana around the turn of the century better than George Francois Mugnier. Mugnier's photographs constitute an impressive visual account of what life was..... More
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1909. First edition. Original cloth on boards, burgundy, w/gilt lettering & design on front & spine. Small quarto, pp. xiii, 226, indexed, 13 color plates of marble types, 72 b/w photographs of quarries, production facilities, marble buildings and more throughout the text. Illustrated frontispiece. A..... More
Youngstown, OH: The General Fireproofing Company, 1920. Fifth Edition. Decorated Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 95, indexed, illustrated with b/w architectural drawings and photographs. The satisfactory waterproofing of any job depends as much upon proper method of application as upon quality of materials. This handbook was offered as a guide to..... More
Bayport, MN: Kenneth D. Ruble, 1978. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xiii, 216, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and several color plates. Andersen Corporation celebrated its 7th anniversary in 1978, and this volume was published to coincide with that anniversary. This history is a "people story," filled..... More
