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ARTISTIC ROOFS THAT ENDURE: A.I.A. FILE 12f1.
by (Ambler Asbestos)
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Ambler, Pennsylvania: Ambler Asbestos Manufacturing, circa [1920's]., [1920's].. Good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled pictorial wraps. The covers are soiled and the spine is rubbed and splitting along the top and bottom. 8 pages, including the covers, with color and black & white illustrations of homes and roofs with English Tatch & Colonial style shingle roofs. The edges of the pages are slightly creased with a horizontal crease across the middle. Good.
One of the first asbestos factory towns in America, Ambler, Pennsylvania was home to the Ambler Asbestos company founded by Dr. Richard Mattison and Henry Keasbey in the 1880's. What had started as a patent medicine company became a producer of asbestos products when Mattison discovered how to make pipe insulation with magnesium carbonate and magnesium. Opening its first textile plant in 1896, the company produced as many asbestos products as it could conceive, including shingles, millboard, tiles, artificial lumber, gloves, gaskets, etc.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96897
- Title
- ARTISTIC ROOFS THAT ENDURE: A.I.A. FILE 12f1.
- Author
- (Ambler Asbestos)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ambler, Pennsylvania: Ambler Asbestos Manufacturing, circa [1920's].
- Date Published
- [1920's].
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- TRADE CATALOGS; ARCHITECTURE; AMBLER ASBESTOS; ARTISTIC ROOFS THAT ENDURE; A.I.A. FILE 12f1; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; LEHIGH FIRST PRIZE CONCRETE MASONRY HOME; ENGLISH TATCH ROOF; COLONIAL TAPERED AMBLER ASBESTOS
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- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
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