Rubber Flooring, Used (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 5 Brochure-Catalogs, 5-15 pp. Each, Illus with different kinds of Rubber items, Orig Decorated Paperbacks, 4to, 3-ring binder holes else Fine & Crisp.

Condition: Buen estado. 1 hoja (sheet) Tapa blanda Buen estado Hoja de publicidad perteneciente a la Revista House & Garden de mayo 1925. Con publicidad de Line Your House with Cork, Armstrong's Corkboard insulation, al dorso.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. (Rubber Growers' Association, Inc.) Rubber Flooring. London, 1928. 8.25x5.75", 52pp Numerous illustrations, plus 10 full-page photos in glorious color of some of the elegant and semi-fabulous rbber floor bits. Very nicely printed , in original wrappers. This is the second edition, following the first edition that appeared only a few months earlier in a printing of 15,000 (!) And given all of these copies this is a scarce publication. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their 10mm "LC" perforated stamped on the front cover and rubber stamp on the last page. Fine copy! [++] Only 7 copies in WorldCat, only ONE in the U.S. [++]After 15 or 20 centuries of development of rubber, including merciless horrors and peonage and slavery and brothel farms and whore cities in the depths of the Amazon, and it's the spread of its development worldwide, who among the hundreds of thousands, millions, of people would've foreseen the development of their precious commodity into a rubber kitchen?  Perhaps it is sort of like imagining Johnny von Neumann or Chuck Babbage reacting to the use of their precious inventions into a platform for entertaining children with judged performances of stealing cars and killing aliens?  [++] Those feelings, I guess, are unknowable, though the gentle people in those folks might've given it all a "of course", world-weary nod of relinquishing approval.  Or not. But right before the mass of rubber was produced synthetically, and just as the naturally-produced rubber farms had spread far across the globe 9and diminishing the former leader Brazil's share of total output to about 15%, the London-based Rubber Growers association produced these two (below) pamphlets extolling the endless uses of their product.  And I really mean 'endless", as they propose in these pages oh-my-rubbery-brothers the rubber house.  Not that the exterior of the house is made of rubber, but just about everything inside was.