The Way Things Work
by MACAULAY, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395428572
- ISBN 13
- 9780395428573
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0395428572 . In this best-selling work, artist and author David Macaulay clearly and simply explains in pictures and words how hundreds of various machines in use in modern life actually work. Per the front cover, this work explains the workings "From levers to lasers, cars to computers-a visual guide to the world of machines." Originally published in the UK by Dorling Kindersley. --- In white pictorial covers with some of Macaulay's artwork to cover; coated in clear gloss outer skin. Dust jacket repeats the cover art. --- With an inked gift inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with minor chafing to edges, otherwise bright and intact.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 384 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85255
- Title
- The Way Things Work
- Author
- MACAULAY, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395428572
- ISBN 13
- 9780395428573
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0395428572
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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