Unbuilding
by David Macaulay
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/price-clipped dj
- ISBN 10
- 0395294576
- ISBN 13
- 9780395294574
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Third printing. Hardcover. Good/price-clipped dj. Folio, 78 pages, x-library with discreet call number on spine, rear pocket removed
Macaulay illustrates and relates his imaginary process of demolishing, deconstructing New York City's classic Empire State Building. He describes how it is coordinated, the trades people involved, and what happens to the detritus, and how its footprint is re-purposed. Signed on the title-page by Macaulay in 1992 to "Readers at Hubbard Woods".
Macaulay illustrates and relates his imaginary process of demolishing, deconstructing New York City's classic Empire State Building. He describes how it is coordinated, the trades people involved, and what happens to the detritus, and how its footprint is re-purposed. Signed on the title-page by Macaulay in 1992 to "Readers at Hubbard Woods".
Synopsis
This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0008499
- Title
- Unbuilding
- Author
- David Macaulay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- price-clipped dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395294576
- ISBN 13
- 9780395294574
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- empire state building, deconstruction, building demolition, recycling,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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