Every issue we've ever printed — Issues #1 through #100 — has been sitting in careful storage as overrun copies from their original press runs, some for as long as 36 years. We're releasing what remains of that archive, in limited quantities. Once it's gone, there is no more to print.
In 1987, I bought a 1914 airplane bungalow in Sierra Madre and quickly learned nobody was writing about homes like it. So I started a newsletter to trade information with other owners. It became a magazine so we could keep the lights on. That was 1990.
We've had lean years — in 2019 we could only afford to print one issue, and it was our readers who kept us going long enough to finish #99 and #100. Every extra copy we ever printed has been sitting in storage since, some for over three decades. This release is what's left of that supply — every issue, all in one place, for the last time.
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Original prints held in storage for up to 36 years, numbered and released one last time.
Browse and shop individual back issues — every stock count below is real, drawn from what's physically left in storage, and none will be reprinted.
Nothing here was newly printed. These are overrun copies from each issue's original press run, held in storage for up to 36 years at real, ongoing cost to us. Once this inventory sells, there is no more — Issues #1–100 will not be reprinted.
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Every restoration decision in our 1912 bungalow started with an issue of this magazine. Owning the full run feels like owning the reference library for our house.
I've hunted individual back issues at shows for a decade. A numbered complete set, in one order? I didn't hesitate.
Nobody documented these homes the way American Bungalow did. This archive is a piece of Arts & Crafts history, not just a magazine.
Scroll through three-plus decades of documenting America's Arts & Crafts homes.
What started as a newsletter for one bungalow owner in Sierra Madre becomes American Bungalow — documenting homes the rest of the world had written off.
Circulation grows steadily across the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand as the bungalow revival gains momentum.
The Chicago Tribune names American Bungalow one of the nation's "50 Best Magazines."
Financial strain limits us to a single issue. We ask readers directly for help — and they answer.
With subscriber support, we finish what we started: one hundred issues, a complete record of the American Arts & Crafts revival.
What remains of our archive — original overrun copies stored for up to 36 years — is released to readers one last time.
Shop the complete archive, milestone bundles, or individual issues — while what's left in storage lasts.
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