New York. Palliser, Palliser & Co., 1887. Black and white frontispiece, 3 pages introductory, 65 plates showing a total of 207 designs in black and white with facing page of text and details, 14 pages of black and white details, 8 pages of various information, 16 pages (2 are blank).....

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.....

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., 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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. 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.....

Lancaster, PA. Armstrong Cork Company. 1948. 20 pp booklet, 7 x 5 inches, in pictorial paper wraps. Four inch triangular water stain from spine to lower margin, most noticeable on back cover. Spotting to front cover. Despite flaws, an interesting and colorful publication. The emphasis of the booklet is on.....

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.....

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.....