Dayton, OH: Delco-Light Company, G.M., 1926. First edition. Decorated Stock Covers, turquoise. Oblong quarto, pp 47, illustrated with b/w floor plans, interior elevations, and perspective renderings. A lovely collection of kitchen designs by architects from Connecticut to California and New York. The styles range from Arts & Crafts to Art... More
Pittsburgh, PA: United States Steel, nd c. 1955. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 21, illustrated with color drawings. This advertising brochure trumpeted the advantages of steel in strength, durability, safety, ease of construction, variety, beauty and maintenance. Sections include the use of steel in the foundation, framework, basement, kitchen... More
London: Charles Griffin & Company, Limited, 1919. Fourth edition. Cloth over Boards. Small octavo, pp. xviii, 323, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. Ex-library. A trustworthy guide not only for the beginner but for the experienced miner, as well as directors and shareholders of mining companies who want an authoritative, clear... More
New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1871. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12mo, pp 287, illustrated with b/w drawings and engravings. Hints and suggestions as to general principles of house building, style, cost, location, symmetry and modes of building. Chapters include water supply, kitchen and ventilation, foundations, brick, concrete walls... More
New York: Wadsworth, Martinez and Longman, nd c. 1880. First edition. Paper advertisement with wooden frame. Frame is 24.75" x 28.50" and has a handpainted inscription on it: "For Sale by E. M. Wright & Co Orwell Vt." This attractive advertisement has 8 prints of the same Victorian house, painted... More
Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, 1948. First edition. Embossed Decorated Boards, Dark Green. Quarto, pp. 180, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. Includes numerous paint and stain chips, color charts, and technical details. A wonderful trade catalog and professional manual for house painters, promoting Pittsburgh's product lines. In nice condition... More
Bay City, Michigan: The Aladdin Company, 1922. First edition. Decorated Wraps with Cloth Spine. 12mo, pp 128. wonderfully illustrated with color and black-and-white drawings. Signed on the cover by a previous owner. As with most Aladdin pattern books, quite outstanding and uncommon. Very colorful and a true reflection of its... More
Philadelphia, PA: The Architectural Annual, 1901. First edition. Original Red Cloth on Boards w/embossed design & gilt lettering. Folio, pp 303. Architectural renderings, b/w photographs, plans, elevations, and perspective drawings. Numbered 2 of 1000 printed. Front endpaper has two period newspaper articles about the Architectural League of America pasted down... More
Syracuse, NY: Dayton Hessler Company, 1927. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp 201, indexed. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Some advertising pages bound in the text, some with color illustrations. A Dayton Hessler advertisement for Black Bull liquid asbestos roof cement laid in. An attractive catalog covering sheet metal... More
New York: U.T. Hungerford Brass & Copper Co., 1907. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. 16mo, pp 283, indexed with thumb tabs at the page's edge. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Price list pages are all rubber stamped "Revised / See Price List No. 9 Adopted 1912" Chapters for brass, bronze... More
Chicago: Decorators Supply Company, May 1906. First edition. Cardboard Covers with Cloth Spine. 16mo, pp 72, illustrated with detailed b/w drawings. Large counterstamp in purple ink by the office and salesroom on cover and title page; pencil calculations on rear back cover. This company made capitals and brackets for exterior... More
London: Chas Griffin and Co., 1913. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Original Maroon Cloth with Gilt Lettering on Spine. Small octavo. pp xvi, 329, indexed. Illustrated with 30 black-and white and 4 colored plates protected by tissue. This is a very comprehensive, tradesman-oriented, well illustrated manual from the early 20th... More
Milford, MI: De Garmo Lumber Co., 1947. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong quarto, pp 32, indexed. Illustrated with spot color b/w perspective drawings and floor plans. Who doesn't dream of having a summer home? These cottages, log cabins, boat houses, tourist cabins, and piers are attractive and economical. They also... More
Chicago, IL: Foster-Munger Company, nd c. 1913. Original edition. Folded sheet of printed paper. Broadside, 12.5" x 28", portico work illustrated in b/w drawings with red lettering. An unusual design sheet of portico work by the Foster-Munger Company of Chicago. Portch posts, newels, balusters, spindles, railing, brackets, and more. Suitable for framing. More
Sterling, IL: Lawrence Brothers Inc., 1938. First printing. Original Wraps. Small quarto, pp 294, indexed; illustrated with b/w drawings. This Illinois company was established in 1876, and had a large line of hardware by the time this catalog was printed. Products included casement window fasteners, braces, latches, garage door hardware... More
Sterling, IL: National Manufacturing Company, 1947. First printing. Spiral Bound Wraps. Small quarto, pp 216; illustrated with b/w drawings. This well-illustrated catalog included some new items to National's line, such as a 2" light strap hinge, a 2" light T hinge, a sash lock, an overhead door set, a new... More
Northampton, MA: A.W. Hastings & Co., 1953. Original edition. Metal ring binder. Small quarto, approximately 90 pages, illustrated with b/w drawings. A scarce mid-century catalog of doors, windows, moldings, and millwork, from the Northampton office of this Somerville, Mass. based millwork company, founded in 1857. This volume is well preserved... More
Washington, D.C. Structural Clay Products Institute, 1946. Later printing. Cardboard Covers. Quarto, no page numbers (about 400 pages), illustrated with b/w drawings and specification drawings. These books document a series of projects from material loaned by the Essex County Vocational and Technical High School in Newark, NJ. They are intended... More
Allentown, PA: Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 1927. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 36, indexed. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photos throughout. Step-by-step instructions with photographs and floor plans for making foundations and walls, poultry house floors, dairy barn floors, hog houses, storage cellars, a concrete block garage, concrete walks... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Arkhitektury SSSR, 1947. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Small octavo, pp 328, illustrated with b/w drawings and several color plates. Text in Russian. Chapters on materials, plaster mortars, tools and fixtures, plastering, decorative plaster, plastering architectural details, special types of plaster, organization of plastering. An unusually scarce... More
New York: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., 1856. First American edition. Text block with paper adhesive binding. Small octavo, pp 256, appendix, no illustrations. This book was intended to place information and models needed by skillful marble workers within their reach, with the hope that it would draw forth essays and... More
Boulder, CO: Old House Journal, April-May 2013. First edition. Original Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 5 (pp. 54-58 of April-May issue of Old House Journal), illustrated with color photographs. With over 20 years experience in building consulting (specializing in practical methods for the restoration of wood elements in period buildings), John... More
nd c. 1910. Original edition. Colored print. 7" x 9.5", once folded but presented flat. A vinegar valentine was decorated with a caricature and an insulting poem. This one mocked the mason for being stupid: "You are only a howling idiot, and you waste more than you use, / You... More
nd c. 1910. Original edition. Colored print. 7" x 9.5", once folded but presented flat. A vinegar valentine was decorated with a caricature and an insulting poem. This one mocked the stone mason for the vices of alcohol and tobacco: "You blear-eyed, boozy, red-nosed drone, / You work enough at... More
Montpelier, VT: Union Card Company, 1904. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 30, illustrated with b/w photographs. This advertising booklet was published for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904 (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair), and intended to promote the granite industry of... More
