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Sale 431: Americana & World History: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera from the Library of Calvin P. Otto (#431) 07/01/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #58 Practical House Builder. Containing fifty designs with perspectives, elevations, floor plans, specifications, etc. of houses, flats, stables, and churches, being copies from original plans from which every structure was actually built. The houses chiefly range between $450. to $5,000 in cost

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$125

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Title:

Practical House Builder. Containing fifty designs with perspectives, elevations, floor plans, specifications, etc. of houses, flats, stables, and churches, being copies from original plans from which every structure was actually built. The houses chiefly range between $450. to $5,000 in cost

Author:

Burnham, H.E.

Place Published:

Chicago

Publisher:

Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Date Published:

[1902]

Description:

115 + [11] ad pp. Illustrated through with drawings and floor plans of houses. 6¾x4½, original pictorial wrappers.

Scarce little book of plans for fifty or so homes, many Craftsman style. Materials could be ordered from Sears - this book seems to a predecessor to the kits for houses Sears was to successfully sell. The only copy listed in OCLC/WorldCat resides in the University of Kentucky Library, with the publisher Montgomery Ward.

Condition:

Spine partially perished, reglued, some staining and wear - very good.

Item#:

206073

Headline:

Burnham's Practical House Builder
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