Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design by Henry Petroski

Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design by Henry Petroski (Alfred A. Knopf / 2003)

An entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life – highlighting the chequered pasts and some possible futures – of numerous familiar objects, by 'America's poet-laureate of technology'

Hardcover with untrimmed pages. Former review copy with publisher's sticker on opening endpaper. Some marking to cloth binding and top, inside of dustjacket where book has possibly been stored in damp conditions, but you wouldn't notice this if you didn't look and on the whole it remains in VERY GOOD condition. 

Pages: 292