Used & Rare Building & Trades Books

Hardcover. Chicago / New York, Eugene Dietzgen Co., 11th pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 404 pages. Dietzgen was a manufacturer of drawing materials, surveying instruments, & measuring tapes. Profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations of tools offered. Pocket on back cover does not have a price list. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century Co,, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with light blue lettering, 420 pages. Many b&w illustrations and photos. A resource for new home owners (circa 1930s) covering all aspects: financing, design, furnishings, improvements, household labor, etc. A nice visual resource for the time period. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Washington, Infantry Journal Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 239 pages, b&w photos. A great primer on the use of basic tools. Dust jacket chipped, small label spine. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Camden, International Marine Publishing Company, First Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Ivory cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Coffee-table sized volume, profusely illustrated in black & white. Full color dust jacket with light toning, price clipped, & light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 3rd pr., 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 153 pages. First Edition, 3rd impression, b&w illustrations throughout. Designed to be used with or without the guidance of a teacher, the book is divided into three parts: Part I: Introduction - Covers essential tools, materials, and techniques necessary for mechanical drawing, including geometric constructions and the use of conventional lines. Part II: Examples and Problems - Provides a range of practical problems arranged by difficulty, covering projections, developments, intersections, isometric drawings, and machine details. Part III: Tables - Contains useful tables and general information frequently referenced by draftsmen, such as standard sizes for bolts, nuts, screws, and keys. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages. A chronicle of Jerome's year spent building a stone wall on his property in the Massachusetts Berkshires - a task which leaves his mind "as free as a colt turned out to pasture" as he muses on the "grace and beauty found within nature and the possibilities inherent in stillness." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 93 pages illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.

Softcover. Albiano, e. s. Po., Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Softcover with light wear to covers, crease to corner edge. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color & black & white throughout, including charts, diagrams, instructions. Clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 8th pr., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 250 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. John Wiley and Sons, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with white lettering, 261 pages. INSCRIBED BY ORGANSCHI on the half-title page. A comprehensive approach to design that integrates sustainable principles and design strategies for decarbonized construction. Offers professionals in the field an approach to sustainable design that embraces building science principles, life-cycle analysis, and design strategies in carbon neutral construction. The book also contains background information on carbon in construction materials and in the building design process. This book is filled with illustrative diagrams and drawings that help evaluate the potential impact of design decisions for creating carbon emissions. Written by and for designers and builders, the book includes a compelling pair of case studies that explore carbon-reducing strategies, suggests steps for assessing a building's carbon footprint, and reviews carbon storages and circulation of materials. Clean copy, like new.

Softcover. Joseph Jenkins, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Softcover. Hundreds of illustrations, including color photographs. Joe Jenkins's expertise in slate roof restoration enables him to provide us with hard-to-find information about every aspect of slate roofs, from their historical beginnings to modern slate-roof-restoration trade secrets. This is an invaluable resource for slate roof owners, architects, historians, contractors, do-it-your-sellers, restoration buffs, and others interested in one of America's most overlooked treasures -- slate roofs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Popular Mechanics Company, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Light blue cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to edges and corners. Back cover is stained. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Advertisement in back featuring other Popular Mechanics books. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w instructional illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 208 pages, b&w drawings by Drake Brookshaw. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley and Sons, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 235 pages plus publisher's ads. Many b&w illustrations. A comprehensive guide to the design, construction, and maintenance of sewer systems. It covers a wide range of topics related to sewer construction, including the different types of sewers, materials used in construction, and the various methods of laying pipes. The book also provides detailed information on the planning and design of sewer systems, including the calculation of sewer capacity and the selection of appropriate materials. Additionally, Sewer Construction includes chapters on the construction of manholes, the installation of pumping stations, and the maintenance of sewer systems. The book is intended for engineers, contractors, and anyone involved in the construction or maintenance of sewer systems. Light shelf wear, previous owner's name on blank prelim page and fore-edge of text block. Interior clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Barcelona/NY, Actar, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pictorial wrappers, 251 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support architecture's plans for the city. This provocative collection looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping residents' place in the city, remaining optimistic about the role of architecture to affect change. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles CA, Gar-Bro Manufacturing, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy. Comes with a separate checklist.

Hardcover. Boston MA, Joseph Breck & Sons, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages illustrated throughout with detailed b&w engravings. A trade catalog featuring everything from coal forks and cider mills to hay rakes and manure spreaders. Textured maroon cloth with gilt lettering. The book itself is warped but the pages are crisp and clean. An excellent visual resource.

Hardcover. NY, John Wily & Sons, 2nd Ed., 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 808 pages, b&w illustrations, charts. This comprehensive vintage guide offers a detailed overview of water supply systems, including their design, construction, and operation. It covers the various types of water sources, treatment methods and distribution networks. A valuable resource for engineers, planners, and policy makers dealing with water supply and sanitation issues. A dozen or so checks or short notations in text, name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright duct jacket, 251 pages, b&w illustrations. For years, designers, educators, and community administrators have clamored for a book that will highlight the problems with contemporary playgrounds, tender sorely needed strategies with which to redress them, and stimulate national debate about today's crisis of undervalued public space. Susan Solomon's groundbreaking and marvelously illustrated American Playgrounds is that book. Since the 1970s, Solomon maintains, American playgrounds have degenerated into irrelevance as cultural artifacts and educational tools. Imbedded in Solomon's text is a frank indictment of American attitudes that are stunted by a heavy-handed emphasis on safety that limits the nature of play and the vitality of places for public assembly. During the past decade an elite few American architects, landscape architects, and sculptors, including Stanley Saitowitz, Walter Hood, and Mary Miss, have pioneered the restoration of aesthetic and developmental values to play areas for young people. Solomon appraises these success stories and proposes fresh and urgent remedies that blend excellent design principles, innovative planning, and affordability-a vision for the future of the playground in America. Supplementing her impeccable command of primary and secondary sources with hundreds of hours of interviews with designers and clients, the author confronts a seriously under-developed topic with powerful and complex arguments rich in social history, law, theories of play and childhood, and urbanism. Readers will be inspired-and equipped-to take up the gauntlet of advocacy for superior American playgrounds. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 3rd pr., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams, and a foldout chart. 242 pages, no markings.

Hardcover. Blue Ridge Summit, Tab Books, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.