The Writing Machine by Michael H Adler (25 results)

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Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A burgundy cloth bound, hardback book with silver coloured titles running along the spine. Comes with nice dust jacket, not price clipped. This wonderful used book is in really god condition, hardly read or use, but as its a used book, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Please note price/shipping overseas may increase from listed postage/shipping price dependant on final destination. 381 pages, all intact and nice tight binding. First published in Great Britain in 1973 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, First Edition. A very informative and well illustrated book, which is naturally written with a sense of humour, which has a useful catalogue of unconventional typewriters manufactured up to the 1930's, when the conventional machine had become universal. With Photographs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1973. Very good copy in very slightly torn and rubbed dustwrapper. An important book on the history of the typewriter. Profusely illustrated throughout. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition in near fine condition. With Photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. 4to. pp 381. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering at spine. Inscribed by the author to William Barnes, cinema archivist and collector: "To Bill Barnes, with sincere best wishes, Michael Adler." With two facsimile adverts and other material relating to typewriters loosely inserted. ISBN: 004652004x Page edges slightly toned, boards a little faded at spine and top edge, else clean and solid. Very good in toned, two large tears at front, faded at spine, good only dust jacket. With Photographs (illustrator).…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - First Published in 1973, The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters, because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had eventually to limit the scope of his 'history'. There are hundreds and hundreds of makes and models of 'conventional' front-stroke, type bar machines with four-row keyboards, but they were virtually all the same. It is the unconventional ones that are interesting, and it is on these that the author concentrates.…

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Condition: New. Michael H. Adler First Published in 1973, The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriter.

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hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. With Photographs (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4to. 381 pp. Signed by Author, very good in original maroon cloth, silver foil, some very light wear only, very good in very good dustwrapper. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -First Published in 1973, The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters, because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had eventually to limit the scope of his 'history'. There are hundreds and hundreds of makes and models of 'conventional' front-stroke, type bar machines with four-row keyboards, but they were virtually all the same. It is the unconventional ones that are interesting, and it is on these that the author concentrates. The book is amusing as well as informative, and it ends with a complete catalogue of 'unconventional' typewriters manufactured up to the 1930s, when the 'conventional' machine had become universal. This book is a must read for anyone interested to learn about the writing machine. 384 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - First Published in 1973, The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters, because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had eventually to limit the scope of his 'history'. There are hundreds and hundreds of makes and models of 'conventional' front-stroke, type bar machines with four-row keyboards, but they were virtually all the same. It is the unconventional ones that are interesting, and it is on these that the author concentrates. The book is amusing as well as informative, and it ends with a complete catalogue of 'unconventional' typewriters manufactured up to the 1930s, when the 'conventional' machine had become universal. This book is a must read for anyone interested to learn about the writing machine.…