Pencil Points
Comparative Architectural Details: The Pencil Points Series, 1936
NY: Reinhold Publishing, 1937

Quarto. 92 pp; richly illustrated with measured drawings & b/w photographs on every page. Brown stiff card covers with three-brad binding. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers with minor edgewear, light soiling on front cover. A collection of details of domestic architecture, selected from the work of well-known architects, incl. Frank Forster, Dwight James Baum, Mellor & Meigs, Wm. Lescaze, Walter Dorwin Teague & many others. The details include doorways, screen doors, shutters, stairways, wood trusses, overmantels, garage doors, pergolas, garden pools, driveways, motor blocks, etc.
Inventory number #014273

Port, M.H., editor
The Houses of Parliament
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976

First edition. Quarto. xxi, 347 pp; frontispiece "Gothic Lily" wall paper, printed by hand by John Penny Ltd from the original wood blocks, 11 color plates, 208 b/w illustrations, 3 tables; appendices; notes; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket lightly chipped at top of spine and one corner.
Inventory number #014257

THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW. Vol. 8, No. 5. May 1919
NY: Architectural Review, 1919

Small folio. xviii, pp 117-146; 16 b/w plates (printed on one side), numerous b/w photographs & some floor plans; iii - xviii pp of advertisements. Printed wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine intact, fore edge heavily chipped, spine & back cover light soil. This issue contains work of the following architects - Ralph Harrington Doane, John Russell Pope, C.P. H. Gilbert, Grosvenor Atterbury & John A. Tompkins, Welles & Bosworth, and Taylor & Levi.
Inventory number #014221

[Tuxedo Park]
ARCHITECTURE. June 1903. Volume VII, Number 42
NY: Forbes & Company, Ltd., 1903

Vol. VII, No. 42. Quarto. pp 65-76; 8 full-page loose b/w plates, b/w photographs and floor plans; xxxii advertisements. Printed wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; cover edges chipped & covers detached. This issue features six houses in Tuxedo Park, NY, as well as Reid Memorial Library, Passaic, NJ; Van Wickle Memorial Gates, Brown University, Providence, RI; gardens, F.W. Vanderbilt, Hyde Park-on-Hudson; Circle Hotel, NY, NY; Philip S. Henry residence, 1053 5th Ave; design for a country house by E. Guy Dawber, architect; and design for a group of workingmen's cottages by J.J. Talbot, architect.
Inventory number #014209

Trade Catalogue
Austin Standard Factory-Buildings : a brief explanation, with descriptions, cross-sections ... together with a presentation of Austin industrial building Service
Cleveland: Austin Company, 1917

Revised edition, September 1917. Quarto. 36 pp; numerous b/w photographs, elevations, measured drawings. Printed wraps with embossed lettering. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light scuffing at top edge. OCLC lists two copies.
Inventory number #014206

Martin, Clarence A.
Details of Building Construction
Boston: Bates & Guild Company, 1914

Later printing. Folio. [4] pp; 33 full-page plates of measured drawings & sectional views. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. VG, former owner on front free endpaper, else an unmarked copy; light wear to extremities.
Inventory number #014204

Trade Catalogue
CHADWICK LEAD WORKS. Catalogue and Diagrams of Lead Pipe, Sheet Lead, Etc.
Boston: Chadwick Lead Works, 1887

Oblong quarto (9.25" x 9.75"). 42 pp; illustrated; index. Original printed wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers show light edgewear. The catalog features a number of tables and full-sized diagrams relating to lead pipe that will be useful to parties interested in water distribution, etc. There is also a tabular statement of water-works in the U.S. with the size and weight of lead pipe used in connection with a given head (or fall) of water. Other tabular work is useful for water-works superintendents, etc. OCLC lists one copy.
Inventory number #014198

Trade Catalogue
No. 50 Section "Universal" Casements
Detroit: Crittall Casement Company, n.d.

12" x 9". 48 pp; profuse b/w photographs, drawings, sectional views; list of a few recent installations in the U.S. and Canada. Printed cover with red embossed lettering & black cut-away of casement windows, in three-brad binder. VG, pages clean & unmarked (title page shows light soil); cover edges with small loss at top edge & corners, spine gone but brad binding holding together. Catalogue No. 7A, Working Details for No. 50 Universal Casements (Patented) - [cover title]. Not in OCLC
Inventory number #014196

Trade Catalogue
Webber Lumber Company Catalog no. 67
Fitchburg, MA: Webber Lumber Co., 1909

Oblong quarto (7.5" x 10.25"). 72 pp; profuse b/w illustrations; index. Printed wraps. Good, interior pages clean & unmarked, staples rusted; covers detached but present with light soiling & edgewear. Four-pp Catalog No. 64 on screen doors laid in, in very good condition. Both catalogs feature dimensions, prices, and model numbers. Not in OCLC.
Inventory number #014195

Trade Catalogue
THE WHITE BOOK
Boston: Samuel Cabot, 1932

Quarto. [16] pp; full of b/w photographs. Illustrated stapled wraps. VG, one page detached but present; covers lightly soiled. The company's promotional brochure featuring houses painted with the firm's Double-White, and other products. One copy on OCLC.
Inventory number #014194

Scientific American Building Monthly. No. 210. April 1903
NY: Munn & Co., 1903

Vol. 35, No. 4. Folio (16" x 11"). pp 68-88 + 10 pp advertisements; b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers lightly soiled, base of spine lightly creased. The cover photograph is the Roger Morris mansion, Washington's headquarters in NY, 1776.
Inventory number #014176

Austin, Jean, Editor
THE AMERICAN HOME. January 1938
NY: American Home Publishing Co., 1938

Volume 19, No. 2. Quarto. 76 pp; many b/w & some color illustrations. Paperback. VG. Cover design by Herbert E. Marsden.
Inventory number #014109

Townsend, Reginald T., Editor
THE AMERICAN HOME. September 1930
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930

Volume 4, No. 6. Quarto. pp 543-628, b/w & some color illustrations. Paperback. VG. Cover [color kitchen interior] by Lurelle Guild.
Inventory number #014108

Townsend, Reginald T., Editor
THE AMERICAN HOME. July 1930
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930

Volume 4, No. 4. Quarto. pp 399-470, numerous b/w & some color illustrations. Paperback. VG. Cover design by J. Floyd Yewell
Inventory number #014107

[Wallpaper Sample book]
Wallpaper with Personality
: , n.d.

Quarto. [33] wallpaper samples. Staple bound color pictorial wraps. VG-, bright, clean samples with 0.5" to 1" dampstain at top edge of most pages, reverse side of samples toned. A variety of wallpaper patterns, primarily floral, including metallic leaf, and embossed samples. Pattern Nos. 1500-1532.
Inventory number #014071

Trade Catalogue
Elzey's Brick Mantel Designs
Parkersburg, WVa: The Elzey Co., 1916

7" x 9". 48 pp; illustrated with line diagrams of over 50 mantel designs & 4 hearth designs. Stapled illustrated card covers. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #014068

Heilbrun, Margaret, editor
INVENTING THE SKYLINE: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert
NY: Columbia University Press, 2000

First edition. Quarto. 306 pp; 13 color plates, numerous b/w photographs, sketches, elevations, and plans; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket bright with no wear. Published in conjunction with exhibition at New York Historical Society, NY, NY, held September 12, 2000 to January 21, 2001. The exhibition examines some of the most celebrated structures of American architect Cass Gilbert (1859-1934) from conceptual sketches through completion. They include the Woolworth Building, the U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green, and the U.S. Army Supply Base in Brooklyn. Essays by four major Gilbert scholars - Sharon Irish, Mary Beth Betts, Barbara S. Christen, and Gail Fenske.
Inventory number #014060

House Plan Book
Home, Fireside and Garden
Chicago: William A. Radford, 1926

Quarto. [20] pp; full of color illustrations & floor plans of bungalows. Color illustrated wrapper. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, cover shows scattered faint foxing, light soil, tiny tear to foredge of front cover. It contains color renderings & floor plans of sixteen models, most including an interior room and architectural detail of one exterior feature. Also color drawings of selected rooms in three California houses, identified by architect - Reginald Johnson, Marshall P. Wilkinson, and Henry Withey. With four one-page articles : Dignity of Owning a Home, Use of Water in the Garden, When the Owner Moves in, Helps for the Home Owner.
Inventory number #014030

Trade Catalogue
Hinge Division, Garage Hardware Division. Illustrated & Descriptive Price Book No. 83. Effective March 10, 1941
Pittsburgh: McKinney Manufacturing Co., 1941

Quarto. 184 pp; illustrations & specs of hinges, cabinet hardware, bolts, brackets, butts, door bolts, hasps, latches, etc. Red printed stiff paper with wire comb binding. VG, Library of Congress rubber stamp, else unmarked, paper clip dent; spine rubbed, minor edge wear.
Inventory number #014020

Trade Catalogue
Architectural Steel. Catalog No. 300
Skokie, IL: J.G. Braun Company, 1962

Catalogue A.I.A. File No. 15. Quarto. 37 pp; full of profiles & specifications. Printed wrapper. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Contains baluster collars & spindles, handrails, handrail terminals, ornamental steel stampings, pipe rail fittings, railing components, steel mouldings, thresholds, treillage and tubing.
Inventory number #014019