Typewriting by Pitmans College (31 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Water damage to book. 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.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:0340182636.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:0340182636. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition soft cover pictorial laminated cover, no DJ. 232 pages slightly tanned good and clean with clear print.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Typewriting (1971) by Pitmans College Teach Yourself Books | ISBN: 0340057394 | Condition: Good There was a time, not so very long ago, when the ability to operate a typewriter was considered an essential professional accomplishment, alongside answering a telephone politely, taking shorthand and knowing exactly how much correction fluid could be applied to a document before it became structurally unsound. In Typewriting , published in 1971 as part of the celebrated Teach Yourself Books series, Pitmans College sets out to teach the aspiring typist the noble art of transforming thoughts into neatly arranged letters on paper, using nothing more sophisticated than ten fingers, a mechanical contraption and an apparently inexhaustible supply of patience. For younger readers, a typewriter was a remarkable device resembling a computer keyboard attached to a small industrial machine. Unlike modern computers, however, it possessed no internet connection, no predictive text, no autocorrect and absolutely no sympathy for mistakes. Press the wrong key and the error remained there, glaring accusingly from the page, until you corrected it by some laborious mechanical or chemical process. The alternative was to start the entire sheet again, a prospect that encouraged an admirable degree of concentration and occasionally some remarkably inventive language. Pitmans College, an institution synonymous with practical business education and the cultivation of respectable office skills, understood that competent typing was not simply a matter of hitting the correct keys. It required posture, rhythm, accuracy, speed, discipline and the ability to manipulate paper, margins, tabs and carriage returns without becoming hopelessly entangled in the machinery. Typewriting was a craft, and like most crafts, it demanded practice, persistence and an acceptance that one?s early efforts might resemble the work of a nervous chimpanzee operating a railway signal box. This instructional volume belongs to an era when offices reverberated with the distinctive clatter of typewriters, interrupted by the occasional bell announcing the approaching end of a line. Rows of secretaries and clerks produced letters, invoices, memoranda, reports and official documents with astonishing efficiency, often while simultaneously dealing with telephones, filing systems and managers who apparently believed that a five-page letter could be typed, corrected and dispatched within three minutes. The typewriter was also one of the great levellers of professional life. Whether you were preparing correspondence for a multinational corporation, composing a furious letter to the local council or writing your first thoroughly unsuccessful novel, the same fundamental rules applied. You had to insert the paper correctly, position the margins, strike the keys with reasonable accuracy and resist the temptation to hurl the machine through the nearest window when the ribbon became tangled. Of course, by 1971 the typewriter had become a thoroughly established feature of modern civilisation. Electric models were increasingly common, although the traditional manual machine remained a familiar companion in homes, schools and workplaces. The personal computer, meanwhile, was still some years away from transforming the office into an environment where employees could spend an entire afternoon attempting to discover why a printer had inexplicably decided to go offline. One of the particular pleasures of a book such as Typewriting is the glimpse it offers into the everyday working practices of a vanished age. There is something almost touching about an era in which the correct positioning of a sheet of paper was a subject worthy of careful instruction, and where the ability to produce a properly aligned business letter could open the door to a respectable career. Today, of course, we possess word processors capable of producing beautiful documents in seconds, which we then spend forty-five minutes trying to format because Microsoft Word has developed an inexplicable objection to the second paragraph. The business world of 1971 took typing seriously. Qualifications in the subject were widely recognised, employers expected measurable standards of accuracy and speed, and aspiring office workers devoted considerable effort to developing the necessary skills. A competent typist could produce professional correspondence without looking at the keyboard, a feat that remains impressive even in our own age of smartphones, tablets and people attempting to write lengthy messages using two thumbs while walking into lampposts. This book also serves as a reminder that modern technology has not entirely eliminated the usefulness of traditional skills. Touch typing remains enormously valuable, even if the machinery has changed beyond recognition. The arrangement of letters on the keyboard has survived the transition from mechanical typewriters to sophisticated computers, largely because humanity decided that reorganising the keys would be more trouble than learning to live with an arrangement originally devised in the nineteenth century. Indeed, the QWERTY keyboard represents one of civilisation?s most extraordinary examples of technological persistence. We have developed satellites, nuclear reactors, artificial intelligence and machines capable of exploring other planets, yet we continue arranging the letters of the alphabet in a pattern that requires the user to remember that the letter Q lives next to W for reasons that are not immediately obvious to anybody. For collectors of vintage educational books, enthusiasts of mechanical technology or readers fascinated by the history of office life, Typewriting is a wonderfully evocative survivor. It captures a period when clerical skills were taught with great seriousness, and when the phrase ?word processing? had yet to become a familiar part of everyday language. The exercises, instructions and underlying discipline belong to a world that.…

Revised Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 232p : ill., facsims ; 18 cm. Subject; Typewriting Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1 Kg.

Revised Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 232p : ill., facsims ; 18 cm. Subject; Typewriting Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. A Very Good paperback with uncreased spine, lightly creased and edge-worn covers, no writing or stamps, unmarked tanned pages. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; Teach Yourself Book; 240 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 6th impression of the revised edition. VG paperback. (Teach yourself books). 10644.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair (WELL BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Seventh Impression. Browned pages , foxing. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY. Please email for further details Size: Mass Market Paperback. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed.

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. A good knowledge of touch typewriting can be acquired within a reasonable period, but it is necessary to impress upon would-be typists that the skill is not one that can be acquired without considerable effort on their part. Many undergoing this course of instruction will not be particularly concerned with high speed in typewriting. There is a section consisting of speed tests, and in it an explanation is given of what constitutes a word when an examination is being undertaken. There is also an important section containing facsimile typewritten documents, and it is confidently believed that those carrying out the scheme of work set out in this book will have, on completion, a knowledge of typewriting that will meet the demands of most business and professions. Very slight foxing to edge. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Reading Hardback. 227 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1971 Edition with PICTORIAL LAMINATED cloth + owners name - 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

No Jacket. hardback, lacks d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Condition: Very Good. 1966. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First published 1947 - 226 pages - unmarked blue boards - top of text block discoloured - date stamp 1970 and small closed tear on back endpaper - dustwrapper undamaged apart from some marks on front and back at top and foot.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket torn.

Condition: Very Good. 1966. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . .

Paperback. Condition: Good. Sixth Imp. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London 1980. (viii) 232 + 8pp adverts pb covers rubbed, pages browned, good.

Boards. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. A good knowledge of touch typewriting can be acquired within a reasonable period, but it is necessary to impress upon would-be typists that the skill is not one that can be acquired without considerable effort on their part. Many undergoing this course of instruction will not be particularly concerned with high speed in typewriting. There is a section consisting of speed tests, and in it an explanation is given of what constitutes a word when an examination is being undertaken. There is also an important section containing facsimile typewritten documents, and it is confidently believed that those carrying out the scheme of work set out in this book will have, on completion, a knowledge of typewriting that will meet the demands of most business and professions. Very slight foxing to edge. Slight shelf wear and a couple of tiny tears to edges and corner of D/J.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. A good knowledge of touch typewriting can be acquired within a reasonable period, but it is necessary to impress upon would-be typists that the skill is not one that can be acquired without considerable effort on their part. Many undergoing this course of instruction will not be particularly concerned with high speed in typewriting. There is a section consisting of speed tests, and in it an explanation is given of what constitutes a word when an examination is being undertaken. There is also an important section containing facsimile typewritten documents, and it is confidently believed that those carrying out the scheme of work set out in this book will have, on completion, a knowledge of typewriting that will meet the demands of most business and professions. Very slight foxing to edge. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…