Automation: What It Is, How It Works, Who Can Use It
Language: English
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1958
- First Edition
- Used
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since October 29, 2009
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 150.00
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. First UK Edition. Slim octavo (20cm); publisher's boards in yellow pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 128pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket dust-soiled and lightly chipped and worn at margins, corners bumped, contemporary Australian bookseller ticket to front pastedown; Very Good and sound overall. An early guide to automation, published as Gollancz Primers for Our Times No. 2. The author was an engineer for General Electric and before that RKO. "[S]ooner than most people think, automation may well dominate the industrial world, the business world, and through them, the lives of us all" (upper jacket flap). Illustrated throughout with a combination of technical diagrams and cartoons.
Seller Inventory # 49656
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Automation: What It Is, How It Works, Who Can Use It
- Author
- Carl Dreher; Herb Lebowitz [illus.]
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 1958
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Science & Technology
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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We are a neighborhood independent bookstore in Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood, across from Eastern Market.
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657 C Street, SE
Washington, DC U.S.A. 20003
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