Boston, MA: National Building Granite Quarries Association, Inc., 1928. First edition. Folded Wraps. Quarto, 25 b&w plates (8.5" x 11") in original wraps, with promotional letter by secretary of the National Building Granite Quarries Association, Harrie H. Sherman, laid in. Beautiful plates of granite construction in projects around the US... More
Cleveland, Ohio: Fischer & Jirouch, 1931. First edition. Decorated Boards with cloth spine. Quarto, pp 205, indexed, with thousands of ornamental samples depicted. Beautiful b/w photos featuring high-end products including capitals, spandrels, mouldings, cornices, ceilings, rosettes, friezes, brackets, and many other ornamental pieces. Ornaments were made from various materials: fibrous... More
Pittsburgh, PA: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co., 1915. First edition. Green cloth over boards, white lettering. Quarto, pp. 329. Indexed, b/w illustrations. Scarce early 20th century plumbing trade catalog, featuring a 3-page section of bathroom designs. Bathtubs, sinks, bathroom accessories, toilets, drinking fountains, showers, urinals, wash sinks, and all the hardware... More
St. Louis, MO: N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company, 1909. First printing. Cloth over Boards, blue with gilt lettering. Small quarto, pp xx, 689. Illustrated with b/w drawings, including 12 model bathrooms. A comprehensive plumbing products trade catalog, including everything from hardware to fixtures. Many specialty items, like barber's sinks, hospital... More
Boston, MA: George H. Polley & Company, 1895. First edition. Decorated boards with cloth spine. Folio, with 60 full-page b/w engraved plates. Beautiful visual depiction of Romanesque and Moorish ornaments drawn from European architecture. More
Trenton, NJ: Estate of Archibald M. Maddock II, 1962. First printing. Cloth over Boards, gilt lettering. Small quarto, pp. xi, 382, indexed. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. This book is divided into three sections. The first discusses the history of the pottery industry and the transitions that led up... More
Salem, OH: National Sanitary Manufacturing Company, 1910. First printing. Cloth over Boards, gilt lettering. 12 mo.(4 1/4" X 7 1/4"), pp 66. Illustrated with b/w drawings, including three model bathrooms. Some penciled prices written in the text. A little gem of a plumbing products trade catalog, giving a snapshot of... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1913. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 17, illustrated with fold-out map of the continental United States. The larger bulletin on slate discussed scientific bearings of slate, but this advance chapter focused only on the qualities of slates that directly affect their commercial value. The... More
Portland, OR: M. L. Kline, 19311. First edition. Cloth over Boards; red with white letters. Quarto, pp. xxix, 559, indexed and illustrated with many b/w drawings and photographs of bathrooms and fixtures. A 1914 letter from Kline and a period envelope laid in. Everything necessary for a 1910 bathroom: tubs... More
Pasadena, CA: Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association of Pasadena, nd c. 1920. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 55, illustrated with sepia-toned photographs. Stamped on the cover by California Stucco Products Company of Portland, Oregon. A showcase of homes in Pasadena, California, with minimal text and 99 photographs of... More
Detroit, MI: Detroit Steel Products Co., 1923. Original edition. Original Embossed Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 116, indexed, illustrated with b/w specification drawings and photographs. Specifications and installation instructions, plus photographs of commercial buildings that feature these windows, including Mt. Morris School and American Chicle Company on Long Island; US Armorplate... More
Chicago: Radford Architectural Company, 1909. Revised. Decorated Cloth over Boards, light blue. Small quarto, pp. 171, indexed and trade advertisements in the back. Illustrated w/ drawings, floor plans. Last page of trade advertisements is torn and partially missing. Some pencil notations in the trade advertisements. Great copy of one of... More
Chicago, IL: Radford Architectural Co., 1910. First edition. Decorated Cloth on Boards, beige w/embossed illustration. Small quarto, pp. 108, indexed and trade advertisements in the back. Illustrated with b/w drawings, photographs and floor plans of 55 designs. An extensive compilation of small garage designs, as well as guidelines for garage... More
Chicago, IL: Radford Architectural Co., 1913. First edition. Original Cloth with 2-color design to cover, clear and vivid. Small quarto, pp. 83, indexed and trade advertisements in the back. Illustrated with b/w renderings and floor plans. Nice copy of one of the less common and more useful of the sought-after... More
Chicago: Radford Architectural Co., 1912. First edition. Original beige cloth w/ red & green design on front cover. Octavo, pp. 219 Illustrated with drawings, photographs and floor plans. Index plus a publisher's catalogue at the rear. Over 300 designs. As with all of Radford's titles, industry-defining and highly influential. It... More
Kingsport, TN: Blue Ridge Glass Corp. nd c. 1946. First edition. Hardwood Case w/brass fittings, gilt lettering; front corner starting to separate. 7 3/4" x 6 1/4" x 4" Latched wooden case with 7 - 3.5" x 5" samples, and 28 - 2" x 3.5" samples (plus two samples that... More
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 101, illustrated with b/w perspective drawings and house plans. Previous owner's name written neatly on front end paper. This is a reprint of the original. Over 70 home exteriors and a few garages are illustrated, with floor plans and descriptions... More
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... More
Minneapolis, MN: Lindstrom, J. W., nd c. 1930. Staplebound pictorial wrappers with cloth tape spine. Quarto, 80 pp., plus 16-page advertising section. Illustrated with b/w perspective drawings, photographs, and floor plans. One in a series of pattern books published by this Minneapolis architect, this edition offers plans for over 30... More
Boston, MA: Station WNAC Home Builder's Department, 1927. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Stamped on the cover by the architect of the Home Harmonious project. The "Home Harmonious" was a joint project between Massachusetts radio station WNAC and contractors, developers, and building... More
Detroit, MI: Home Planners Inc., 1966. First edition. Cardboard box; cardboard portfolios; staplebound wraps. Cardboard box, 8.5" x 12.5" x 2", containing 5 numbered and titled portfolios, each containing four or more pattern books of designs by Richard Pollman for Home Planners. Portfolio 1 is labelled "Two and 1 1/2... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1930. First edition. Cloth over Boards; water stain on top right corner of front cover and top left corner of back cover, but dust jacket and text block unaffected. Folio, pp. xvi, 208, profusely illustrated w/ b/w photographs. Nice copy of the definitive photographic... More
Dublin: Government Publications, 2007. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 52. Illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Indexed in the form of a checklist of common problems, and the page numbers where the possible causes for those problems are discussed. Advice on how to get timber or metal historic windows... More
Washington, D.C. United States Bureau of Mines, September, 1930. First edition. Stapled paper. Small quarto, pp 12, illustrated with b/w drawings. According to a forward by Scott Turner, the director of the United States Bureau of Mines, this is the first of a series of papers dealing with mining and... More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1904. First edition. Original Green Pictoral Publisher's Cloth. 12mo (5 x 7 1/2). pp circa 200 pages. illustrated with hundreds of drawings and building plans. Hodgson saw the need for comfortable, healthy, and attractive homes for those with limited financial resources, and produced this... More
