Philadelphia: Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1976/1885. Republication. Leatherette, black w/Dust Jacket. Oblong Folio, pp 95. 20 Color plates including a reproduction of an early paint card from 1871. A reprint by the Philadelphia Athenaeum of an iconic paint treatise by Dornsife in the 1880s. Color documentation is one of the most... More

New York: National Terra Cotta Society, 1931. First edition. Staplebound Wraps and Individual Plates. Clute: Quarto, pp. 8, illustrated with b/w photographs. Lockhardt: pp. 12, illustrated with b/w photographs and specification drawings. Plates: subset from "Terra Cotta Standard Construction" (plates 1, 3, 4, 12, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22... 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

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

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St. Paul, MN: Brown-Blodgett, Inc., 1947. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 32, indexed. Illustrated with b/w photographs and floor plans on each page. This publication urged the reader to choose owning a home, and creating wealth, over renting a home. The designs in this book were selected to be... More

London: Country Life, Ltd., 1939. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto. pp. 92, with period advertisements bound in. Richly illustrated with b/w photos and floor plans. Very good source book on small homes in the 1930s. A remarkable and interesting book on the subject, written by the editor of England's... More

New York: American Society for Better Housing, Inc., 1936. First edition. Decorated Wraps, teal. Quarto, pp 110. b/w perspective rendering and floor plans on each page. Trade advertisements in the back. Homes include those designed by architects Harvey Stevenson, Randolph Evans, William Platta, Wesley Bessell, and Henry Chapman, among others... More

Washington DC: Building Research Institute, 1956. First edition. Original Wraps rebound in boards with cloth spine. Small quarto, pp. vi, 163, illustrated with b/w photographs. These are the edited papers and discussions of a research correlation conference on natural stone and clay products conducted by the Building Research Institute in... More

Parchment, MI: The Parchment Press, 1993. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. xii, 83, illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes its companion piece, an 18-page 1993-1994 price guide for the furniture in the Quaint catalog. This reprint of the 1912 Quaint Furniture catalog helps to fill a gap in our knowledge... More

Mill Valley, CA: Victorian Design Press, 1983. First edition. Paperback. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8 1/2), pp. 118 (text), bibliography, over 200 photographic illustrations with explanatory text for each item in the calligraphic hand of Renee Locks. The author traces the history of the hardware industry in the United... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp.310, indexed, richly illustrated in b/w photos and drawings. This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture - California's Arts and Crafts Movement. If only one word is used to describe... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949. First edition. Original publisher's blue cloth. Quarto. pp. xvi, 195. Illustrated with 41 images. A - E Appendices, Indexed. One of the first (1949) of the post war assessments of American nineteenth architecture. The appendices give interesting source material about Harrison (the... More