DJ: rubbing & edgewear; chips; creases; closed tears; scuffs; some yellowing

DJ: rubbing & edgewear; chips; creases; closed tears; scuffs; some yellowing & duststaining/foxing. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; some yellowing & duststaining/foxing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 158 pages.

This softcover book has been bound into card covers with a linen spine by an

This softcover book has been bound into card covers with a linen spine by an institutional library. Minimal library marks; interior pages clean and unmarked, tight binding. 158 pages. Many illustrations. "From toy ray guns to individual flying platforms for infantrymen, from Hollywood miniatures used as props for science fiction movies to Buckminster Fuller's 1928 Dymaxion House, Yesterday's Tomorrows' is a dazzling, amusing, and fascinating look at the ways Americans in the last one hundred years have imagined the technology and lifestyle of their future. The authors, guest curators for the current major Smithsonian exhibition, 'Yesterday's Tomorrows, ' present a vivid array of architectural models, industrial prototypes, toys and games, original drawings, and illustrations to examine and interpret in text and pictures the American proclivity for speculation on the future and faith in material progress" [back cover] Keywords: Technology, Lifestyle, Smithsonian exhibition, Architecture, Industrial prototypes, Toys games, Drawings, Illustrations, Material Progress.

Size: 10x7x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 10x7x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!