Wonderful writing machine (16 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Fair. Older book. Wear and discoloration on DJ. Pages are tanned.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Random House, New York, NY. 1954, First Printing (stated), Hard Cover, "The Wonderful Writing Machine" by Bruce Bliven Jr. Has fully credited illustrations, mostly from museums. This book is in Very Good + condition with the Dust Jacket in Good condition. The book is covered in dark green cloth with lighter green lithographs on covers, front and back and lettering in dark green as well. Has light wear and soil and very slight edge and spine wear. Front end paper has a paragraph written by author thanking the Royal Typewriter company, and a pencil mark/number on top, right corner. Title page has nicely illustrated typewriters in black and white and on copyright page has lithography credited to The Murray Printing co. Wakefield MA. Also contains acknowledgments, Picture credits, full table of contents, full list of illustrations, and an index in back of book. All the inside pages are very clean, tightly bound and in near fine condition. The accompanying dust jacket is in Good condition with some wear mostly to edges and spine, soil and slight fading, otherwise in good shape. Overall a very nice copy. various artists (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Random House, 1954. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good, price-clipped, with some shelf/edgewear.

Condición: VG, NO dj. 1st. 8vo. 236pp. Slight cant to spine. The story of the typewriter.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 236pp, index, bw ills. Or pictorial cloth, no jacket. Small marks in margin of 2 index pages, otherwise excellent. The development of the typewriter. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition. Dustcover has very light wear but missing the laminate that was original to cover; Hardboards with very light wear, sharp tips, very clean bright, no markings, solid and straight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 236 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. First edition hard cover with printed boards in very good condition, with an unclipped, plastic-protected dust jacket in good condition. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning and light wear to dust jacket and edges, and a notable dampstain to the rear of DJ at the foot, (Boards unaffected). Jacket colours remain vivid. Notable tanning to pageblock, this leading into page edges. Green cloth boards are illustrated and other than minor wear to edges, are in fine condition. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed.], 1st printing ; 236 p. illus. 24 cm ; LCCN: 54-5955 ; LC: Z49A1; Dewey: 652.309 ; OCLC: 343148 ; decorative green cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, date due, pocket, reinforced binding ; "the sturdy old typewriter, and this biography of a machine might just catch on. It's fun reading and conveys the vim and zest it imparts to our bustling economy and its inevitable facet, office life. It starts with a sparkling tribute to the girl secretary, as she led the invasion of the sacred portals, via the machine. Bliven has a facility in enlivening what might have been dull reportage of an invention that revolutionized communication at local level. Henry Mill of England worked on the idea in 1714; William Austin Burt of Michigan was the first American to pick it up, thought it just a byproduct but patented it in 1829. After an interim of fifty two dabblers in the invention came Sholes of Milwaukee, who put it on its keys. From then on- the histories and struggles of such household names as Remington, Underwood and Smith; of Mark Twain who thought the typewriter "too curiosity breeding"; of the novel The Typewriter Girl whose doughty heroine proved she knew more ways than one. Bliven did his research at the Royal plant, so there's more about Royals than the others, but in the main it is a tribute to all models, and may pass a speed test in unexpected sales. "--Kirkus ; Contents: Girl in the office -- The wonderful writing machine -- Burt's necessity -- By Jingo! It prints -- The 1881 Revolution -- Inventors are never satisfied -- Salesmen and thieves -- Race against time -- No longer funny -- Portables by parachute -- Adjuster at work -- Quality counts ; G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Cloth binding. Condición: Good copy. 8vo. XV + 236 pp. ills (ilustrador).