Buy this book on-line Corn, Joseph J.; Horrigan, Brian : Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American FutureSummit Books, N Y, 1984 ISBN 0671541331
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]. Architecture. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Trade Paperback Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Corn, Joseph J.; Horrigan, Brian : Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, libri rari, rare books, libri antichi and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |