By Darryl Rehr, author, journalist and Editor Emeritus of
ETCetera, journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association.

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About the Book

The TYPEWRITER, first introduced in 1874, is one of those great inventions that cuts across a wide path of interests. You'll be interested in ANTIQUE TYPEWRITERS if you are interested in:
 

 WRITING
BUSINESS
INDUSTRY
COMMUNICATIONS
HISTORY
ANTIQUES
LITERATURE
MECHANICS
JOURNALISM
PRINTING
PRECISION
DESIGN

  

...So read on... to discover what this book can offer YOU.

"ANTIQUE TYPWRITERS AND OFFICE COLLECTIBLES"

Finally... a book that shows you everything. More that 340 full-color photos showing the broadest range of historical typewriters ever published in color. Side-by-side comparisons of different models let you determine one from another... without having to comb through 10 other books. Plus, a value guide gives you an idea what collectors really pay for these things.

Here's What's Inside:

 
  • A Concise History of the Typewriter
  • The Strange World of Typewriter Mechanisms
  • How to talk to collectors in terms they understand
  • Determining the condition of antique typewriters
  • How to ship a typewriter safely
  • How to do your own restorations
 
 

 

BUT MOST IMPORTANT:

A machine-by-machine listing describing HUNDREDS of different antique typewriters, WITH FULL-COLOR PHOTOS... showing you how to tell them all apart.

  

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ORDERING INFORMATION

"ANTIQUE TYPEWRITERS & OFFICE COLLECTIBLES"
is now completely OUT OF PRINT

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The publisher was COLLECTOR BOOKS, producers of the BEST books for the collecting community. I have a limited quantity of books which will be sold... until they are gone.

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Price: $30.00 plus shipping 
($2.48 sales tax, CA only)

Shipping costs are:

$2.50 each in USA book rate
$6.50 each in USA priority mail

International shipment is available.
Rates differ from country to country
so please inquire by e-mail.

Payment by cash, check or money order
(sorry, this isn't a big enough enterprise for credit cards)

Outside USA, please send payment by cash or check payable
on an American bank
(no Eurocheques, please).

DARRYL REHR
2591 Military Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90064

NOTICE - my busy schedule often makes me very slow to deliver books. Please bear with me, or order your book from the publisher.

click here for
further info by e-mail

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ABOUT ANTIQUE TYPEWRITERS?

Visit these web sites:

All About Antique Typewriters

  A complete survey of typewriter history, typewriter varieties, models, makes, you name it! Fully illustrated with color images. Get a great idea how fascinating this field really is... and then order the book!  

The QWERTY Connection

  Did you know that the keyboard you're using on your computer right now is 125 years old?!? Read the complete story of QWERTY, a cultural fixture that will stay with us... maybe forever!  


ETCetera
  From 1987-1999, the author was editor and publisher of "ETCetera," Journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association. This publication has now passed to other capable hands. For more information, click the above link.