Rolling Homes: Handmade Houses on Wheels
New York: A & W Visual Library, 1979.
Hardcover.
In this monograph on vintage handcrafted homes on wheels from the 1960s and 1970s, the author provides tours through converted buses, small vehicles (pickups and delivery vans) and trucks including descriptive text, facts and figures, scale drawings (plans, sections, elevations) as well as photographs of the exteriors, interiors, and details. Information on the cost and time of remodeling (in 1979) is included in a chapter of construction photographs.
“With the spirt of yesterday’s covered wagon and the mobility of today’s recreational vehicle, these individually crafted houses on wheels form an original artistic and cultural movement. They combine the do-it-yourself tradition with the Amirian faith that ‘you can take it with you.’…Blending art with technology and economy with style, they satisfy the desire from freedom, simplicity and self-expression. Housetruckers have the option of combining home, work and travel in an inexpensive and personally created environment. Rolling Homes is filled with design inspiration for people who live in small places as well as those who need or want to be mobile.”
Item #901244ISBN: 0891041281
8 x 10-1/4”, green paper over boards, 96pp, fully illustrated in color.
Modest toning to edges, clean of owners’ marks, tight, little bumping to extreme lower corner rear board, near fine in moderately rubbed dust wrapper and protective mylar, original dust wrapper price intact.
Price: $150.00