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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. by Petroski, Henry - 1996.

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New York: Knopf, 1996. First Edition, 5th Printing Pictorial Wraps FINE in WRAPS Narrow 8vo (5-1/4 x 9-1/4), 414 pp including Index. Trade Paperback is FINE -- unread, unmarked and would be AS NEW but for small bumps on two corners of the pictorial wrap. Mr. Petroski's understanding of functional design as it effects our lives. A fascinating history of something so integral to our lives as to be invisible or, at best, considered mundane. Mr. Petrovski makes it clear this device is anything but mundane. (h)
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