Excellent book for typewriter lovers!
582632
Polt has put together a really excellent book that outlines many different aspects of typewriter culture and history.  It's a fun book to flip through and read due to lots of illustrations and pictures.  It's filled with rare and valuable information.  If you like typewriters, you will definitely enjoy this book.  Very happy to have this on my shelf.
2565331
I love this book!

I did not know I would have learned so much about Julia Child and so much about the times she lived in-post WW2-in and outside of the United States. Highly recommend!!

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4592609
Great little book ! It Has a lot of helpful hints for beginners . He explains and shows  common strokes and then shows how they fit together to form the letters or numbers .  It also has numerous copies of vintage lettering and an introduction to very basic layouts  .
1832504
Great Read, excellent.

Electric typewriters, barber shops, quips and wisecracks, fashion and fun wait to be remembered and treasured within the pages of this elegant book!
3500301
I chose this book because I was looking for something not to "heavy" to learn more about tintypes, and for its reasonable price.  I think it works very well at both levels.  Very knowledgeable concise writing, and best of all many examples of tintypes illustrated throughout the whole book.  The text is in the first half of the book and has a photo on about every other page, and the last half of the book has a tintype illustrated on each page.  When I ordered this book, I didn't realize its smaller size, so when I got it I was a little concerned.  Well that quickly went away once I started looking through the pages.  While I enjoy reading the history of photography, when it comes right down to it, the pictures are what captivate you and one wants to see as many examples of as possible.  This book pulls that off with ease.  I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in the history of photography of this time period, occupational history, American history, etc.  I think anyone would enjoy it!
1977023
I have recently fallen in love with the art of hand lettering.  I wanted to purchase a book of alphabet examples, and I am so happy I purchased this one!  There are tons of different styles and weights, and I have had plenty of fun trying to practice each one!  I highly recommend this for the budding letterer!
1523138
Love this book with so many lettering & project ideas. Thanks so much!!
601391
If you are looking for a good book to show you many different fonts that can be used in text writing or looking to improve your handwriting, this is the one. Excellent instruction, wonderful, numerous, varied fonts. Love this resource!
2519690
I've been choosing and working with fonts since the late 70s and I have dozens of books on typebut this book is different. Through many fun illustrations, anecdotes, and facts, the author tells the story of how fonts and typography affect us. Some of it is rather light, with disconnected sections, but it's the kind of book you can open anywhere and find something interesting.
2534790
If you'd like to learn to write the "ABCs" of written Chinese, this is the book for you! (That's a joke, by the way, since Chinese has no ABCs.) The book gives very complete and detailed instructions for making the strokes of the Chinese characters, and building them into beautiful characters. I particularly liked the way little arrows show the movement of the tip of the brush, while up and down symbols told you when to lift the brush to its tip, or press it down.

The book is interspersed with attractive little projects you can do with Chinese characters, but the heart of the book is definitely how to write the characters themselves.
826018
I love this book! Learning two new alphabets with 46 characters each (not including the modifiers, which makes each alphabet 71 characters) was a daunting task for me, but this book really did the trick. There's one kana per page, with both the katakana and hiragana on it for comparison. Best of all, the mnemonic devices are really memorable...they stick in your head like glue!
  The only thing I would say that is negative about this book is that it lacks stroke order; actually, it doesn't tell you how to draw the kana at all. But since that really isn't the point of the book, I would highly recommend it to all who want to remember the kana. Buy it! Now! You can't go wrong.
641023
Fascinating comprehensive pen book with over 1,200 full color sharp photos of every type of fountain pen.  Includes many old ads and printed materials.  Interesting articles cover important topics such as,  development of the fountain pen, building a collection, where to find them,  storage and display, refurbishing and repairing them, inks, major makers  and much more.  Pen values are provided.  A delightful hardback book with  colorful laminated covers.  You don't have to be a pen collector to enjoy  this book.
4301629
When I first read this book many years ago, I was working briefly in advertising and had had it recommended to me by my boss.  I thought I'd be bored out of my skull, but in fact, I found it fascinating and extremely useful.  Although my advertising job was short-lived, I have found myself remembering and regularly using things I learned from David Ogilvy.

Two of his best pieces of advice concern the look of a typeface.  He makes the point that white type should be used sparingly, if ever, as the human brain has evolved to better understand dark symbols on a light background.  Not just for tradition's sake is this the case--our brains are wired this way!  Similarly, he points out that sans-serif fonts (those fonts like Helvetica or Arial, which don't have the little finishing touches called serifs at the end of each line of a letter) are much better suited to large text areas, like headlines, than they are to the main body of text.  That's because--once again, evolution steps in--our eyes are more able to visually "grab" the text when the serifs give us a kind of visual traction.

There's a lot of fascinating stuff in here, and the best part is that it's useful by anyone wishing to make themselves clear and understood--not just those folks who actually work in advertising.
3810386
The book is an excellent, not-too-basic review of most important topics in typhography. The writing is very clear and entertaining, the printing and design from the book itself is superb, as it should be expected, given the author's expertise in the matter.
I liked the thorough description of serifed, unserifed and greek fonts towards the end of the book, and the glossary of typographical signs at the end.
This book is a must for people interested in the subject!
2953641
If you're a typewriter fetishist or Paul Auster devotee, this book is definitely worth it. I am a bit of both, so the book is quite an endearing eyecandy for me. This slim volume is really the work of Sam Messer, an artist who became enamored with Auster's Olympia portable (I think SM 8 or 9) and decided to paint it everytime he visited. The paintings are quite good, as a matter of fact. Auster provides a quick, anecdotal history of his typewriter, and if you are a writer, you will empathize how he or anyone can grow so enamored with a writing tool.
Is this a book worth adding to your collection with paid money? Yes, if you are into Auster and you believe in the superstitious mythical powers that all rational and intelligent writers place in their writing machines. In my personal opinion, this piece belonged in a nice art magazine.
If you want to get a book that Auster's work intersects with art, check out "Double Game", a collaborative effort by Sophie Calle and Paul Auster. There is no finer blending of fact/fiction, art/literature in contemporary literature.
3366420
As a professor teaching typography to beginning graphic design students,I find this book well organized and covering all the important aspects of designing with type.  This book,if properly used, will give the student of type design a head start on understanding the page layout applications when they start working on the computer.  I applaud  James Craig for all the thought and organization that he put into this book. For all of you interested in type and type design, rush to buy this book.
3672149
This is a wonderful book overflowing with bright, colorful vintage images of typewriters of all sizes, shapes and kinds. The source material includes advertisements, brochures, photos, instruction manuals, postcards and much more. There's even a short section on typewriters that were included in pin-up photos. The labor of love it must have taken just to find all of this material is impressive enough, but the final product is a visual joy.