[Rarebooks] FS: Nice lot of Home-building magazines

[Bob Petrilla]

Weil, C.K. and others. "HOME" - An Interesting Monthly Magazine Sent to You
Each Month by Your Lumber Merchant: Lot of Nine (9) issues, 1938-1941.
Silver Lake, New Hampshire: John F. Chick & Son, Building Material,
1938-1941. First Editions. Lot of nine issues, averaging 16pp each;
illustrated throughout from photographs, floor plans and elevations. In the
original, pictorial wrappers. Approx 11" x 8.5" Very Good. Pictorial Paper
Covers.
The thrust of this magazine is "Now is the time to build your own home."
Themes of these issues include: Hollywood Hilltops; Simple Dignity Is the
Best Architecture; Cape Cod Cottages; Need Four Bedrooms?; Wood Walls; A
Place to Eat in the Kitchen; Twin Level First Floor; Fireplace Ideas; The
Case for Home Ownership; Colonial Twins; Summer Cottages; Modernizing A
House; Plywood Is Perfect Material; Baseball Grows Up [a four-page
departure in one issue]; Historic Walls; Suburban Charm; Log Cabin Siding;
Ideas for the Roadside Merchant; Two Farm Homes in 1940 Style; Modernizing
Your Farmhouse; Duplicate the Charm of Old World Cottages; Underground
Storage Easily Built; Three Modern Farm Homes; Small Summer Cottages; More
Miracles - the Metropolitan Way; Build Storage Facilites, Now!; Model House
and Barn in Ohio; &c. [Internal evidence suggests that this was a Federal
Housing Administration periodical.] $175.00

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