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MACAULAY, DAVID - The Way Things Work

Title: The Way Things Work
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Hardcover. ISBN: 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. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0395428572 >>Science, Engineering, Technical

Price: US$ 12.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 85255