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Building the Book Cathedral
by Macaulay, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395921473
- ISBN 13
- 9780395921470
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395921473 . Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is As New, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is also As New, fresh and bright. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings throughout. Includes in its entirety the content of Macaulay's "Cathedral, " a much lauded and awarded book. Large folio. 112 pp. In protective Mylar. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped priority or outside the U. S. .
Synopsis
It has been twenty-six years since the publication of CATHEDRAL. David Macaulay's first book, CATHEDRAL, introduced readers around the world to his unique gift for presenting architecture and technology in simple terms, and for demystifying even the most complex of concepts. CATHEDRAL received a Caldecott Honor Medal and is now considered a classic. BUILDING THE BOOK CATHEDRAL includes the content of CATHEDRAL in its entirety. Here Macaulay traces the evolution of his creative process in "building" that first book, from the initial concept to the finished drawings. He introduces the basic elements of structure and sequence and explains why one angle of a drawing may be better for conveying an idea than another. He describes how perspective, scale, and contrast can be used to connect a reader with concepts, and how placement of a picture on a page can make a difference in the way information is communicated. Building the Book Cathedral provides an opportunity to examine Macaulay's unique problem-solving skills as he looks back over two and a half decades at the book that launched his distinguished career.
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Details
- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91618
- Title
- Building the Book Cathedral
- Author
- Macaulay, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395921473
- ISBN 13
- 9780395921470
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0395921473, The Way Things Work; Gothic Architecture
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- New
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- Folio
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- Tight
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