The Book on the Bookshelf

by Henry Petroski

$50 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Octavo 24cm . Tan paper over boards, backed in orange paper, in pictorial dust jacket; black and white illus. Bookplate and ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight and clean, pushed at head and tail, edges rubbed: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, with old bar code sticker to lower panel: Very Good. A

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