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MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND: A Contribution to Anonymous History
by Giedion, Siegfried
- Used
- very good
- hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- Seller
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Covina, California
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Third printing. A critical history of mechanization seen in its historical and sociological aspects, this seminal work is credited with establishing a new kind of historiography. Tall octavo: 743 p. with 501 illustrations. Original blue cloth-covered boards over a red cloth spine, with silver titles. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some general shelfwear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- johnson rare books & archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74131
- Title
- MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND: A Contribution to Anonymous History
- Author
- Giedion, Siegfried
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket condition
- Very good
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Architecture, Mechanization, Historiography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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- shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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