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Antique Typewriters and Office Collectibles: Identification and Value Guide
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Features
Paperback: 173 pages
Publisher: Collector Books June 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0891457577
ISBN-13: 978-0891457572
Product Dimensions:
11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
Antique Typewriters Office Collectibles teaches readers to properly identify and evaluate what they have, in terms collectors can understand. In addition to typewriters, the highly collectible ribbon tins are given a special section. The nearly 400 full-color photographs allow you to recognize good machines, learn the differences among models, and distinguish the worthless from the valuable.1997 values. AUTHORBIO: Darryl Rehr is a professional journalist who began collecting typewriters in 1984. Antique Typewriters and Office Collectibles is Rehr's first book-length work in the field, but he has written extensively on the subject for almost two decades. He has been editor of ETCetera, the journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association. REVIEW: This identification guide offers a broad view of historical typewriters for anyone who is interested. Specifically, it tries to teach readers how to talk to typewriter collectors about the details of machines which may otherwise seem impossible to describe.
Reader Reviews
WHO WOULD WANT THIS BOOK Anyone that like typewriters, is nostalgic about them, collects them or can't afford to collect them (space-wise or money-wise). This lovely book contains pictures and brief descriptions of old typewriters -- there are many beautiful and crisp photos and some brief descriptions. There's also a small appendix with other office machines (calculators, pencil sharpeners, etc). WHAT'S NICE ABOUT THIS BOOK The pictures. Definitely the pictures. I could never tire looking at them. WHAT'S NOT NICE ABOUT THIS BOOK It's hard to criticise what is clearly a work of love. Some people mentioned that the prices are off. But I would like to focus on other aspects; Perhaps some of these can be fixed in further editions: - There's very little treatment of foreign typewriters. This is a pity because different languages posed different mechanical challenges to typewriter manufacturers and it's nice to see how they overcame those difficulties. It's also nice to see other alphabets. :) - It would have been nice to include a sample of the text produced by each typewriter. Just to see the various typefaces. An index of typefaces/typewriters and their samples could have been nice to have as an appendix, so that people could match samples they have (old letters, notes, etc) with the typewriters that could have possibly been used to write them. - A bit more prose -- a more thorough description of the mechanical aspects of these machines would have been a nice thing to have.
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Antique Typewriters and Office Collectibles: Identification and Value Guide
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