Tuscumbia, AL: Robbins Floor Products, Inc., nd c. 1965. Original edition. Three-ring bound. Quarto, pp. 12, plus 16 pages of tile samples; some loose and some missing. A very attractive catalog with samples of beautiful and unusual designs in vinyl and rubber tile. More
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Oil Paint & Varnish Co., nd c. 1915. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong 16mo, pp. 20, illustrated with color drawings. A beautiful booklet advertising MacDougall's full line of paint products, featuring their residential house paint but also including automobile, wagon, varnish, porch floor, and iron paint. Includes..... More
Barberton, OH: Sisson and Sons, 1953. Original edition. Spiralbound Calendar. 8.5" x 14.25", 12 two-sided pages with color illustration and calendar page on one side and architectural floor plan on the other side. A beautiful 1950s advertising calendar from this Midwest cement block manufacturer and builder of cement block homes..... More
Boston: Robert L. Stevenson, 1923. First edition. Cloth Spine, Pictorial Boards, brown. Small quarto, pp. 120, richly illustrated w/architectural drawings, floor plans, and photographs in sepia tones. Price list for 1925 laid in. A historic pattern book from a local Boston architect who built many homes in the towns in..... More
Basel, Bern, Switzerland: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2019. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Octavo, pp. 320, more than 100 illustrations, mostly in color. Text in English and German. This is a book to bury yourself in, to look and learn. By using impressive photographs, Brigitte Schuster documents cat ladders in Bern..... More
Boston: C.B.Webster & Co., 1912. First printing. Original Wraps with String Tie Binding. Octavo, pp. 23, sepia toned photos of colonial style doorways in Salem and Newburyport, MA and Portsmouth, NH. A red and white sticker is adhered to front cover. From first period, unpainted, to high style Federalist, a...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933-1934. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. ~10-15 each, illustrated with b/w photographs. A lovely assortment of photographs illustrating various architectural details. Scarce and always in high demand. More
Canton, OH: T.C. Snyder & Co., nd c. 1881. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 24mo trade pamphlet, pp 16, some b/w illustrations. This roofing company advertised that its roofing was "the most perfect and practical fire-proof, lightning-proof, wind, water, and rust-proof," and that its iron ore paint spreads farther than any..... More
London: The Architectural Press, 1937. Third revised and enlarged. Original coarse beige linen binding. Missing page 89. Quarto, pp. 224, illustrated with b/w photographs and floor plans. Index of architects' names. A very influential book, on the continent and in the United States. Somewhat of a modernism manifesto, and a...... More
Boston: Bates &Guild, 1914. First edition, later printing (Eighth Thousand). Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Quarto, pp. 4, plus 33 plates. Written by a professor of architecture at Cornell, it was created to present to his students as part of his course on architectural construction. A nice book: most plates..... More
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1924. First edition. Boards. Folio, pp. 25 plus 94 plates, mostly b/w photographs, but some sharp gravure images of architectural drawings. Signed in ink by a previous owner on front endpaper. The purpose of this group of measured drawings and photographs is to present to the..... More
London and Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Co., 1877. First edition. Original Embossed Cloth Over Boards. Quarto, 59 plates. Signed in ink by a previous owner in 1883 on the title page. Some neat notations in pencil by the same owner on some plates. We've had the text volume before..... More
Boston: Boston Architectural Club, 1928. First printing. Green Cloth over Boards. Folio, pp. 100, plus pp. 63 of Boston-area advertisements with advertiser's index; illustrated with b/w architectural drawings. The Boston Architectural Club was organized in 1889 for the purpose of associating those interested in the profession of architecture, with a...... More
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1924. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. viii, approx. 450 w/many drawings & illustrations throughout, including some in color. As with all of the International Library of Technology trades-related titles, good solid professional text, well illustrated and aimed at the tradesman of the early twentieth..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1997. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 256, indexed, illustrated with b/w line drawings and photographs. This book looks inside the buildings and shows how and why they were originally planned and how they have evolved, often from very simple structures. It reveals in the..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1985. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 160, indexed, illustrated with more than 140 full-color pictures. Signed by a previous owner in ink inside the front cover. For anyone interested in the way Europeans lived in the early nineteenth century, Mary Ellen Best..... More
London: Concrete Publications Ltd, 1949. Revised. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp vii, 150, indexed, illustrated with b/w specification drawings and photographs. This was one of a series of books on reinforced concrete design and construction. The original edition had been titled "Concrete Cottages, Bungalows, and Garages," but the contents..... More
London: John Murray, 1872. First edition. Cloth over Boards, gilt details. Small quarto, pp 559, indexed, illustrated with 234 b/w drawings, a color fold-out map of Europe, and a 32-page publisher's list bound in. One of the most interesting of antiquarian studies is that which relates to the origin and..... More
Hanover, NH: University Press Of New England, 1984. Boards. Quarto, pp. 226, indexed, glossary, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. This classic work on the vernacular farmhouse architecture of New England is an enduring customer favorite. Examples of these stately and functional buildings can still be found in rural areas. Has attained..... More
London: George Virtue, none (circa 1842). Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 339; should have 342 pages, so last several are missing. 63 plates containing perspective views and ground plans, and elevations drawn to scale. Original publisher's brown cloth with front cover illustration in gilt, repaired with the original spine laid-down..... More
New York: Robert M McBride & Company, 1920. Second edition. Decorated cloth over boards. Small quarto, pp. 120. Illustrated with b/w drawings, photographs and floor plans. Signed by a previous owner inside the front cover. This book was intended for those who wanted a comfortable house with a modest price..... More
Des Moines, IA: Meredith Publishing Co., 1939. First edition. Decorated Stock Wraps, blue. Quarto, pp 206, illustrated with b/w photographs and floor plans. A selection of 100 homes are pictured and described with floor plans, with articles on topics of interest to homeowners, such as water proofing, crack proofing, painting..... More
Oshkosh, WI: Morgan Millwork, 1921. First edition, numbered and limited. Full Leatherette with Pictoral Design. Quarto, pp. 408, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color drawings. A photographic sticker is attached to back cover, presumably covering a puncture mark also repaired from the inside back cover. A very beautiful trade catalog..... More
Chicago, IL: E. L. Roberts & Co., 1903. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp 443, illustrated with b/w and color drawings. This extensive catalog of Victorian woodwork includes wood doors, windows (including church windows and stained glass), grilles, gable ornaments, porch columns, staircase woodwork, china closets, and much..... More
Davenport, IA: Gordon-Van Tine Co., 1935. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 104, indexed, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, details, and three-dimensional floor plans. A very nice copy of a scarce catalog of one of the giants of the industry. More
