London. Bartholomew & Fletcher. No date. Ca. 1890. Profusely illustrated furniture catalog from the highly regarded London firm (established 1843) of Bartholomew & Fletcher; premises at 217 & 219 Tottenham Court Road (London W). Paper wraps; 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches; 79 pp. On verso of page one catalog.....
Bay City, Michigan. The Aladdin Company. Copyright 1919. Extensive color (including four fold-out double page illustrations) and black and white illustrations of homes each accompanied by floor plans. Color pictorial endpapers, 116 pp, index, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, color pictorial cloth covered thin boards (hardbound). WITH FOLDING PRICE.....
New York. Atlas Portland Cement Company. 1921. Authorized reprint from American Concrete. Booklet, black and white photo illustrations, 15pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, pictorial paper wrappers. Very light toning to front cover; very good condition overall. The heavily illustrated booklet makes a case for using stucco on a variety.....
San Francisco. California Pottery Company. No date. Ca. 1920s. 11 x 8.75 inch pamphlet describing and picturing five types of clay roofing tile: California Spanish Tile; Escornada Tile; Medium Sierra; California Pan Tile; Italian Pan Tile. Diagrams show the design features of individual tiles while line drawings depict their appearance.....
Davenport, Iowa. Gordon-Van Tine Co., No date. Ca. 1923. Profusely illustrated catalogue in paper wraps; 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 64pp; catalogue contains several loose sheets relevant to ordering goods. Remnant of paste-on information sheet on front cover. Booklet features all manner of farm buildings; also barn doors, tools.....
Davenport, Iowa. Gordon-Van Tine Co., Copyright 1926. Profusely illustrated catalogue in paper wraps; 11½ x 8½ inches; 52pp; catalogue contains several loose sheets relevant to ordering goods (a folded sheet with printed grid to plan your own barn floor--each square = 1 foot; also a mail-in card for free booklet.....
Harrisburg, PA. The Rocbond Company. No date. Ca. 1927. Booklet, black and white photo illustrations, color illustrations of differing stucco applications, 21 pp, 12 x 8 1/4 inches, color pictorial paper wrappers. Covers a trifle worn with faint soiling to edges, previous owner's name in ink on title page; folded.....
Mowery, Eldred (illus).
National Lumber Manufacturers Association. 1929. 7 color illustrations with plans, numerous additional plans and black and white illustrations, 32pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, color pictorial wrappers (softbound). Spot of paper adhered to upper left corner of front cover, marking and pen marks to lower front cover.....
Chicago. [National Plan Service, Inc. (?)], No date. Ca. 1925. Oblong illustrated catalog picturing and describing "summer cottages," 11 x 8 inches, 16 pp., pictorial paper wrappers. Catalog held together with staples (not as issued) and REAR COVER is MISSING. Pages are dog-eared and thumbed. Black and white line drawings.....
Portland, OR. and Los Angeles: Redimade Building Company. 1921. No. 15. A poster 17 x 22.5 inches that unfolds from a pamphlet of four pages (each 11.25 x 8.5 inches with light "after-issue" centerfold) offering information, through photos and text, relating to Redimade sectional houses and garages. "From the Tree.....
Peerless Color Works. No date. Ca. 1920. Pamphlet, color paint swatches, 8 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches unfolding to 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Very light wear and soiling. A 1920s vintage brochure featuring eight paint swatches of Peerless Paint.
Seneca Falls, N.Y. The Goulds Manufacturing Company. No date. Ca. 1924. Booklet, black and white illustrations, 44pp, 11 x 8 inches, stiff paper wrappers, original mailing envelope. Envelope worn and missing inserted letter. Pencil notation dated 1924 to front endpaper, otherwise booklet in very good, clean condition. The booklet (with.....
Chicago. National Plan Service Inc., 1932. Copiously illustrated catalog, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, 32 pp., pictorial paper wrappers, featuring black and white photographs and line drawings of summer vacation homes of various sizes. The common denominator appears to be the presence of a "screened porch" on virtually all of.....
Jefferson City, Missouri. No date. Ca. 1939. Booklet, black and white illustrations of homes accompanied by floor plans, unpaginated (8pp plus covers), 12 x 9 1/8 inches, pictorial wrappers. Black and white centrefold picturing over two dozen houses (including the White House) most of which have nothing to do with.....
Clinton, Iowa. 1933. Thin card portfolio of glossy single sheets, 12 x 9 inches, picturing, in black and white, small homes together with floor plans. The plates are numbered 1 through 46, with sheets 34, 36, 37, 38, 41 and 42 not present (interestingly we have received information from a......
Pittsburgh, PA. Heinz 57 Varieties. 1933. Brochure touts the Heinz company's contribution to the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. Replicas of eight kitchens representing "kitchens of many lands," past and present, are featured as the centrefold of the brochure 8 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, unfolding to a......
Chicago. Crane Co., 1939. Booklet, black and white illustrations, 15pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, stiff paper wrappers. Faint soiling to covers and a few interior pages, otherwise booklet in good condition. The pamphlet, illustrated in black and white, describes and pictures fixtures and accessories for bathrooms, fixtures for kitchens.....
Chicago. Ponderosa Pine Woodwork. Copyright 1945. Booklet, black and white photo illustrations throughout, 28pp, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, color pictorial cover wrappers. Light wear to covers, soft bump to upper right corner, pencil notation on single page, mid section loose; otherwise good, clean condition. A profusely illustrated booklet featuring.....
Boise Payette Lumber Company. 1940. Issue No. 3. Twelve page brochure, 10 x 8 inches, pictorial paper wrappers, comprised chiefly of short chatty illustrated articles pertaining to historic homes, rustic homes, home interiors etc. An illustrated centerfold pictures four variants on the floor plan of a two bedroom house, showing.....
Shahn, Ben (cover illus).
Chicago. United States Gypsum. Late Spring 1949. 14 pp pamphlet, 12 x 8.5 inches, featuring house plans and adverts for US Gypsum products. Light spotting to rear cover, otherwise good clean condition. The pamphlet pictures various new homes together with their floor plans; blueprints of these.....
Chicago. Crane Co., No date. Ca. 1940. Booklet, black and white illustrations, 16pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, pictorial paper wrappers. Very good condition. The booklet, clearly addressed to women, features ground plans for what Crane terms a "humanized, Family Planned Kitchen" emphasizing efficiency. One such plan depicts an arrangement.....
Chicago. Swift and Company. No date. Ca. 1940. H-2 (Revised). 2 full color double-sided landscape plans, 17 x 24 inches, folding as issued to 8 1/2 x 12, with small 7 x 5 1/2 inch booklet and original pictorial envelope. Moderate wear to envelope. Booklet and plans in very good.....
Bay City, Michigan. Aladdin Company. Copyright 1953. 47th annual edition. Booklet, color and black and white illustrations of homes accompanied by floor plans, 64 pp, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, in color pictorial paper wraps. A few short tears to covers; paper loss to spine; fold to rear cover. Overall.....
Peekskill, NY. Kwik-Lite Manufacturing Corporation. Ca. 1960s. BOOKLET, profusely illustrated in black and white, laid in sheet with mail in card, 43 pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, color pictorial wrappers. Very good condition: very light soiling to cover, light wear to extremities including light mark from paper clip to.....
General Electric. 1937. PAMPHLET, 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, unfolding to sheet 12 1/2 x 13 inches, color illustrations. Vender stamp on rear otherwise fine condition. Includes washing machines and flatplate ironer. Opens out to poster of 7 washing machines two with spinners and 4 with wringers...
