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Book Description
From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Continue
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austinchronicle published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 304 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0375706399
- ISBN-13: 9780375706394
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Sep 12, 2000
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780375706394 | Paperback | $14.95 | $12.78 | bn.com |
| -- | $11.99 | ebooks.com | ||
| $14.95 | $11.20 | The Book Depository | ||
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The Book on the Bookshelf
makes for surprisingly fascinating reading, peppered with bits of knowledge that might be unfamiliar to modern book lovers. For instance, from the Middle Ages up to as late as the 18th century, books (valuable items that they were) were chained to le ... (read full critics)