1912 Book of Home Building and Decoration by Henry Collins Brown, Illustrated

Description: Book of Home Building and Decoration: Prepared in Cooperation with and Under the Direction of the Leading Manufacturers of the Country by Henry Collins Brown, Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, 1912, 200pp, cloth, 9.5 x 12", 4to Fair condition. Illustrated front board. Wear to boards. Tips are bumped. Title in white ink on spine. Provenance (C.F. Langlas) on front board and endpapers. Hinges are cracked. Bookplate for Maurice Robert des Marais on front pastedown. Full color frontispiece opposite title page. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. No known marginalia. Includes color and black and white photos and illustrations. Please see photos. Henry Collins Brown (1862-1961) was a Scottish-born New York historian, lecturer, and author, and the founder of the Museum of the City of New York. After working as an advertising salesman, he became a journalist for The Sun, writing about the city's history as well as its buildings. Brown also wrote several books about New York's history, and was the editor of Valentine's Manual. FORN-SHELF-0541-BB-2406-JC858

Price: 75 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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