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TESTED SENTENCES THAT SELL

By Elmer Wheeler.

This is bound photo-reprint of the original 1938 book. 213 pages. I spent 45 years in the office machine sale business and found this a wonderful text both for my own use and for training new sales persons.

Contains: Forward by. H.W. Hoover. President, The Hoover Company – Selling the Sizzle – Don’t Write Telegraph – Say it will Flowers – Don’t Ask If / Ask Which – 3 Words Sold Millions of Clothespins – Turn Nickels into Dimes – They Sold The Brooklyn Bridge Again Last Week. Plus Over 25 more chapters on selling. This is a much have book if you just starting your career in the sales business a sales trainer or an experienced salesperson. The sentences of the 30’s work just a well today.

$27.50

COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO ANTIQUE TYPEWRITERS

By Dan Post

Offers a bonanza for anyone with a sweet tooth for old writing machines. Has 500 Makes Indexed Worldwide - 330 Illustrations - 290 Historical Profiles - 125 Representative Ads - 128 pages - 6 x 9 - HARDBOUND - GOLD STAMPED COVER. The 125 old typewriter advertisements in this book make it a treasure to own. THIS IS A NEW BOOK.

I am including what I consider a 'Wholesale Price List' for most of the machines in the book. Included typewriters such as: L.C. Smith - IBM - Corona - Williams - Yost - Remington - Blickensdefer - Fox - Burroughs - Bar-Lock - Caligraph - Demountable - Harris - Rex - Fay-Scholes - Edison for the Blind -Hammond - Elliott Fisher - Olivetti - Little Giant, Childrens machine - International - Oliver - Music Writer - Mercedes - Roebuck - Emerson - Simplex, children’s machine - Smith Premier - Standard Folding - Sun -Underwood - Victor - Woodstock - World (Boston) and many many more makes and models.

GREAT GUIDE FOR ANITQUE DEALERS AND COLLECTORS. When the National Office Machine Association (now BTA) closed their museum in Kansas City we purchased all the Dan Post books. When these books are gone, I don't think they will ever be printed again.

$12.95

TEXT BOOK ON TYPEWRITER REPAIRING

Copyrighted 1912

The only Written Authority on Typewriter Construction and Repairing. Cover very simple Principle, Construction, Features, Troubles, Adjustment, Repairs, and Operation of the Standard make of Writing Machines. Underwood - Royal - Smith Premier (blind)- Remington (blind) - Smith Premier No. 10 & 11 - Oliver No. 3 & 5 - L.C. Smith & Bros - Monarch Visible - Fox (blind-visible).

Over 150 pages of information. This is a bound photo-reprint.

$27.95

TYPEWRITER ROW

By: Michael A. Brown

This 85-page book is full of the history of the typewriter manufactures in early New York City. The book will give you the old addresses of many of the typewriter companies such as, Yost, Underwood, L.C. Smith, Williams, Victor, Wellington, Sun, Oliver, Caligraph, Noiseless and many more.

Dozens of pictures will tell the reader where these old typewriter companies were located and if the building is still there. This is a must have book for us office machine collectors.

$21.95

THE FIVE-POUND SECRETARY – AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BLICKENSDERFER TYPEWRITER.

By Robert Blickensderfer and Paul Roberts.

Soft Cover - 121 pages. “George Blickensderfer invented two of the most advanced writing machines of his time; The Blickensderfer 1 and the Blickensderfer Electric. The market wasn’t ready for them. The Blickensderfer name is for forever linked to a charmingly simple portable typewriter. The Blickensderfer 5.

This book tells the story of an American inventory, his creative dreams and the harsh reality. It is based on original research and contemporary source material. It is richly illustrated with dozens of photos, drawings, advertisements and catalog illustrations”. Contains: History of George C. Blickensderfer, information on the Blick’s, 1,3,5,7, Electric 5, 8, 6 and Featherweight, and 9. Working at Blickenderfer’s – The Scientific Keyboard – Blicks at War – Blicks Patents – Photos on nearly every page. This is a wonderful typewriter history.

$26.00

SEXY LEGS AND TYPEWRITER - WOMEN IN OFFICE-RELATED ADVERTISING, HUMOR. GLAMOUR AND EROTICA.

By Paul Roberts.

Soft Cover – 105 pages. This is another great work by Roberts. It is every thing the title suggests. “Women and typewriter entered into a sensual partnership of skin and steel the moment at which the first writing machine was operated by female fingers. That was back in the 1870s. Ever since, office girls have fed the male imagination for many different reasons. Pretty women and typewriter appeared together in advertising; humorous photo series and postcards; glamour photos; and erotic. This richly illustrated book covers all these areas, from the first women to appear in a typewriter ad to a large collection of nudes from all ages.” A wonderful pictorial history of the machines we collectors have come to love.

$27.00