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

Zustand: Good. 1930. Third Impression. 63 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Moderate foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable foxing to boards. Moderate tanning to spine. Book has forward lean.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. ex-library paperback, usual library stamps/markings. Published 1943, fifth impression by Technical Press, London with 63pp, 38 figures. Some shelf wear & fading to covers, some handling marks to page edges otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 38B*.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 287 + 287pp. + 24 superb colour plates of microscopic images. Interior in nice clean condition. Owner's name in pencil on fep. Wear to extremeties of cover but still well bound and internal paper hinges unbroken. One page has a tear without loss. Overweight Volume - Weighs 1.5 Kg, additional P&P may be requested for overseas buyers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.…

Sheet Music. Zustand: Good. Good condition with wear and markings.