Pencil

by Carol Beggy

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it.

Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501392247
• ISBN13: 9781501392245
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.2"