Description:
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. Peach-colored cloth boards, black stamped cover and spine. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition fair. . Line drawings by Elizabeth Ferguson & Margaret Trafford.. Includes chapters on stenciling, paper mosaic, costumes & masks, pottery, batik, art metal jewelry, leathercraft, and others. 270 pages, index. Light wear, endpapers browning. Owner's information inked on ffep. Jacket has some tears, losses and soiling.
The Boy Builder by Hamilton, Edwin T - 1933
by Hamilton, Edwin T
The Boy Builder
by Hamilton, Edwin T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped and tattered.. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding. xiii, 290 pp. Many illustrations by G. Ruth Taylor and plans by the author. Index. A vintage woodworking book written for boys (girls were steered to the author's "Handicraft for Girls") with instructions for over 100 projects, from soda cannons to pinhole cameras to a squirrel feeding station. We like the "Go-Devil", a horse-drawn winter sledge for "when winter sets in and old dobbin starts eating her head off for lack of exercise." .
- Bookseller Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket chipped and tattered.
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication NY
- Date Published 1933
- Keywords WOODWORKING, 1930s Children's Books