The Wonderful Writing Machine

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.