Tools: Making Things Around the World
New York: H.N. Abrams, 1998. Hardcover. Orange boards with white spine lettering, brown dust jacket with color illustrations, tan and white lettering, 352 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. VG/VG (light wear to boards and text block, pages are bright and clear. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket). Item #177781
ISBN: 9780810938991
"The world is filled with tools- simple and complex: ancient and modern. Discover where they came from, how they evolved, and to what use they've been put over the centuries through magnificent color photographs and an evoctive text, (this book) brings more than 300 tools to life, lettering the reader share the experience of using them."- rear of dust jacket "Celebrated human ingenuity and the brillance of craftspeople by depicting tools not as inert objects, but as instruments of a particular culture intended for use in a specific time and place"--Cover.
OCLC: 39007200
Price: $30.00