The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski

The Book on the Bookshelf

Henry Petroski

304 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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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 t...

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