DREYFUSS, HENRY
Designing for People
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955: 1955
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First paperback edition. 8vo; 240 pp.; illustrated from photos, drawings. Paper tanned, else a very good copy in original wrappers. The autobiography of one of the great industrial designers of the century.
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