Tiles by Sparta, published by the Sparta Ceramic Co., East Sparta, Ohio, 1940. (Can I say “Sparta just one more time?) 11×8.5”, 64pp, illustrations throughout the publication, several in full and gloriously fabulous color. Printed on heavier matte stock, with stiff wrapper binding. Provenance: Library of Congress Pamphlet Collection, with the LC surplus/duplicate rubber stamp on the cover. (Also comes with two duplicates of the LC card catalog cards. Very Good copy. Lovely copy. Everything that you need to know, plus planning suggestions. There are no copies of this title located in WorldCat OCLC. Very Good copy. $100
No doubt that in just about every b+w movie ever made some of the floors that folks walked on were very colorful. The studio floors of course wouldn’t necessarily be so pretty, but the rooms in which the characters were supposed to occupy would’ve been–its just that we rarely see the floors in those movies in the pre-color days, and many of them could’ve looked like the floors in this catalog.
