📚 Doors

The threshold as design object: joinery, the great examples, and the symbolism nobody escapes.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject doors in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	No one here gets out alive	Jerry Hopkins	1980	11
	Riders on the storm	John Densmore	1990	8
	Doors + gates	Albert Haberer	1964	5
	Make your own handcrafted doors & windows	John Birchard	1988	5
	The Lizard King	Jerry Hopkins	1992	5
	Doors	Michael Tutton	2020	5
	Tore und Türme in Europa	Heinz Bronowski	1972	4
	Doormaking	John Birchard	1999	4
	Illustrated Guide to Door Hardware	Scott Tobias	2015	4
	Original designs for front entrance doors	G. B. Croff	1871	3
	Die Bronzetüren des Bonanus von Pisa und des Barisanus von Trani	Albert Boeckler	1953	3
	Doors	Val Clery	1979	3
	Decorate your doors	Edie Stockstill	1994	3
	Builder's Guide to Barriers	Dan Ramsey	1995	3
	Darhā-yi Īrānī	Hādī Harājī	2007	3
	Thüren aus Turkestan	F. R. Martin	1897	2
	Around the world with Van Kannel	Robert L. Blanchard	1929	2
	Holztüren und Holztore	Ulrich Reitmayer	1970	2
	Doors and windows	Time-Life Books	1978	2
	Doors, windows, and skylights	Dan Ramsey	1983	2
	Doors, windows & skylights	Roberto Lombardi	1992	2
	Quick Guide: Windows & Doors	Editors of Creative Homeowner	1994	2
	Decorating with great finds	Home Decorating Institute (Minnetonka, Minn.)	1995	2
	Doors	Taunton Press	1997	2
	Building Cabinet Doors & Drawers	Danny Proulx	2000	2
	Historic Millwork	Brent Hull	2003	2
	Stralsunder Bürgerhäuser	Wolf Thormeier	2014	2
	Doormaking	Strother Purdy	2017	2
	Through perfect doors to beautiful homes	Morgan Sash & Door Company	1911	1
	Brantford combination storm and screen doors	Ruddy Manufacturing Co	1920	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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