Typewriter: A Celebration of the Ultimate Writing Machine - Hardcover

Paul Robert And Peter Weil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1454920785 ISBN 13: 9781454920786

Publisher: Sterling, 2016

Synopsis

Favoured by many famous and upcoming writers and poets as their tool of choice, and benefiting from the nostalgia of steampunk and Mad Men, typewriters (like vinyl) have experienced a resurgence, especially among hipsters. This fascinating book celebrates that renaissance through images of the most beautiful, curious, elaborate and heralded typewriters in history, along with the stories of people who have created and used these beloved machines. Written by two typewriter collectors and experts, the book features 125 colour photographs tracing the typewriters evolution from the 19th to the 20th centuries - ending with the advanced IBM Selectric - along with print advertisements, vintage photographs, patents and other memorabilia.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Robert is a journalist and photographer. He runs the Virtual Typewriter Museum (typewritermuseum.org) and has written a biography of typewriter inventor George Blickensderfer and two other books aimed at other typewriter collectors. Paul lives in the Netherlands. Peter Weil is a retired associate professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Delaware, a contributing editor to the typewriter journal 'ETCetera' and an avid typewriter and ephemera collector for 20 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1454920785
• ISBN 13: 9781454920786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224