New York: Lead Industries Assoc. November, 1951. Original edition. Pictorial Wraps. 8 1/2" x 11", pp 20. Tables and charts throughout. Chemical formulas for red lead paint. More

New York: Hugh Kelly & Co., 1910. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 33, ownership signature to front free page, includes Sanford's Hexagon Color Guide. Scarce title. An early attempt to analyze the impact of color and how the impact can be influenced by complementary colors. A didactic piece, which..... More

Chicago: Sears, Roebuck & Co., n.d. (ca. 1950). Original edition. Pamphlet. Octavo, pp. 55. Illustrated with numerous in-text plates, many in color, and a beautiful color cover. A scarce, small Sears, Roebuck & Co. pamphlet with painting instructions and a catalog of related supplies, featuring their Master-Mixed line of interior..... More

Chicago: Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1939. Original edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Oblong Octavo, pp. 51. Illustrated with numerous color images and b/w in-text drawings, beautiful color cover. A scarce, small Sears, Roebuck & Co. pamphlet with painting instructions and a catalog of related supplies. Features a beautiful front and back..... More

Chicago: Sears, Roebuck & Co., n.d. (ca. 1910). Fourth edition. Decorated Wraps, b/w. pp. 16 plus interior covers. Illustrated with numerous in-text plates, b/w cover depicting a house painter on the front, and a picture of the Illinois Paint Mfg. Co. on the back. A scarce, small Sears, Roebuck &..... More

1920s-1930s. 30" wide by 42" tall, polychrome on heavy cardstock. Five colors: brown, gold, red, cream, and black. Used by H. W. Fifield Company of Vinal Haven, Maine. The Senour Paint Company was founded in 1878, and changed its name to Martin Senour in 1903. Surviving the Great Depression and..... More

Cleveland, OH: Sherwin-Williams Paints, 1937. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 34, illustrated in color, covers both interior and exterior. This pamphlet introduces the reader to a couple that wants to spruce up their house, and takes us through each room and why they made the decisions they did when..... More

Cleveland, OH: The Sherwin-Williams Co., 1942. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 34, illustrated with b/w photographs. Everything a sales person needed to know about interior wall finishes in the 1940s: wall primer and sealer, wall mixing size, plastering, tinting, painting over calcimine or casein paints or resin emulsion paint..... More

NY, MI: Keystone Co, Alabstine Co, Nu-Enamel Corp. ca 1920's. Original edition. Trade Brochures, Color Pictorial. 3 Art Deco era paint brochures - 1) Keystona - with 16 bright and pastel flat finish paint chips. 2) Alabastine - with 20 interior flat finish paint chips. 3) Nu-Enamel - with 20..... More

Boston: Building Brick Assoc. of America, 1910. First edition. Decorated Stock Wraps, brown. Quarto, pp. 95. Richly illustrated with 72 pen & ink drawings, plans, and details. A scarce and attractive trade publication promoting the beauty and affordability of brick as a building material. These designs were selected in a...... More

New York: Chemical Publishing Co., 1965. First American edition. Cloth on Board, orange w/light orange DJ. Octavo, pp 160 including index. b/w photographs and detailed drawings throughout. Summaries of technical presentations at a building conference covering properties of plastics in buildings, sandwich panels, structural applications, thermal insulation, and other topics..... More

Pittsburgh, PA: Clay Sewer Pipe Association, 1941. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 12 Mo (5 x 8), pp. 53, indexed, illustrated w/ drawings. To avoid complex computations reegarding loads falling on clay pipes, the Clay Sewer Pipe Association developed tables "including solutions for practically all normal sewer and drain trench loading..... More

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