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Home Builders' Blue Book

Paperback trade catalog printed for the J.C. Simpson Lumber Company by the William A. Radford Company. (**See below.) The front and back covers have a light blue background, with color illustrations of houses. The front cover also has 2 men and a woman looking over a house plan in the front yard, the title at the top in white, and "J.C. Simpson Lumber Co., Lumber and Building Materials" in black at the bottom. The back cover has a quote from John Ruskin's 1849 book: Seven Lamps of Architecture . The spine is covered in light blue tape. The book is in overall good condition, with some tearing on the front cover's bottom right corner and wearing along all edges. The illustrations and floor plans inside are all in black and white. 98 pages. Size: 8.25" x 11.5" **From antiquehomestyle.com: "Of the hundreds of companies that designed house plans during the first half of the 20th century, one of the most prolific was the William A. Radford Company of Chicago, Illinois. Radford sold a number of books under their name, but also provided their plans to lumber dealers and builders for distribution to customers. Many of those books are unattributed, but they are easy to identify by comparing

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