Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold
by Ierley, Merritt
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0609608363
- ISBN 13
- 9780609608364
- Seller
-
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers; A Panache Press Book, 2002. ix, 306 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Annihilating time and space the railroads; Traveling, not being traveled the bicycle; Love at first sight the automobile; Looking heavenward air travel; The truly astonishing contrivance the telegraph; The first communications highway the telephone; A new necessity of civilization the typewriter; "You should get one" the copying machine; Dropping on target the fax machine; Doing what came naturally the home computer; A succession of wonders home entertainment; Where's the band? the phonograph; The craze that stayed photography; The wildfire wonder radio; Adding sight to sound television.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048193
- Title
- Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold
- Author
- Ierley, Merritt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0609608363
- ISBN 13
- 9780609608364
- Publisher
- Clarkson Potter/Publishers; A Panache Press Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Film, TV, & Video / TV / History & Criticism;
Terms of Sale
LEFT COAST BOOKS
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
LEFT COAST BOOKS
Biblio member since 2016
Santa Barbara, California
About LEFT COAST BOOKS
Established in Santa Barbara, California, in 2004, Left Coast Books specializes in ART BOOKS, offering thousands of titles on painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, design, photography, film, video, and performance art. We also sell classics, literature, history, and a broad variety of useful academic books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...