Artyping Pre Ascii Alphanumeric Art by Julius Nelson Copies Found Worldcat (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Julius Nelson, Artyping. Published by Artyping Bureau, Johnstown,Pa. 1939. First edition. 11"z 8.5", 44 leves. Paper wrappers, staple-bound at top with a cloth bookbinding adhesive tape covering that. Very fresh copy! Near-fine condition, Provenance: the Library of Congress, with their 10mm perforated "LC" stamp on the title page and their surplus stamp at rear. Also a tiny rubber stamp "Pamphlet Collection at top right front cover corner. [++] This is a splendid collection by Mr. Nelson, who taught high school secretarial science in Pennsylvania ("Instructor, Secretarial Science, Windber high School, Windber, Pa."), and who provides what is basically a DIY on how to create art with your typewriter. This is no doubt a masterpiece of its type (sorry!), introducing to many the possibilities of creating images with letters and numbers. [++] There are NO COPIES of this work located in WorldCat! [++] Note: there is an interesting article by Alexis Madrigal ("The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art--People will make art with any technology") in "The Atlantic" talking about the history and pre-history of typed art that you should read to further appreciate this pre-computer art application of alpha-numerical typed art. The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art--People will make art with any technology. (Another article on the Nelson book that appears in The Verge "On the ASCII Art of the 1930s".).