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
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
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
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
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
Seattle, WA: West Coast Lumbermen's Association, nd c. 1928. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 20, illustrated with b/w photographs. This catalog showcases the buildings where Douglas fir sashes and frames were used in the construction, including the W. P. Fuller & Co. building in Portland, OR; the Stroh Building in Detroit;... More
London: Crosby, Lockwood and Co., 1884. Fourth edition. Original Green Cloth, w/gilt lettering & design on spine. 12 mo, pp. xxi, 394, indexed. 9 colored full page illustrations (all present) )of woods and marbles and numerous wood engravings. 16 and 32 pp of publisher's advertisements. One of the well written... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1909/1908. First edition; second thousand corrected. Cloth over boards; brown with gilt lettering on spine. Small octavo, pp 121, indexed; 20-page publisher's catalog bound in. A practical guide for the home owner covering materials, supplies, tools, mixing paints, varnishing, finishes, glazing, papering, whitewashing... More
Wicklow, Ireland: Wordwell, 1999. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. vii, 104, glossary, bibliography, illustrated with b/w and color drawings and photographs. Written in an accessible and popular style, this book is for the general reader interested in lifestyle, house design, heritage and the environment. The book includes sections... More
Wrightsville, PA: Wrightsville Hardware Company, nd c. 1915. First printing. Spiralbound wraps. Quarto, pp 83, indexed, illustrated with b/w engravings. Wrightsville Hardware manufactured hardware, household and mechanics' tools, housefurnishings, and grey iron castings. John Wright still operates today as a cast iron manufacturer. An attractive catalog from this successful and... More
Youngstown, OH: Truscon Steel Co., January, 1937. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps, blue/yellow stock. 8 1/2" x 11" pp 24. b/w photographs on each page. b/w illustrations. An extremely attractive trade piece highlighting modern window design in concrete homes, traditional houses, stone bungalows, and "skyscrapers." Also includes garage doors and... More
New Haven, CT: Sargent & Co., 1906. First printing. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp 283, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. Meant to be a supplement to the 1901 catalog with updated prices. Not as heavily illustrated as the original catalog, but a good reference for prices and hardware available at the... More
