About this title: The fascinating history of a writing culture and technology. "The Iron Whim" is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history that traces the haphazard trajectory of the typewriter's development and its various evolutionary dead ends. Darren Wershler-Henry casts amusing light on the tricks of the first typewriter salesmen, important and unusual typewritten texts, the creation of On the Road, and the exploits of a typewriting cockroach named Archy, numerous monkeys, and even a couple of vampires. He turns his keen eye on typewriter-related rumours (does Thomas Mann's daughter really ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780771089251ISBN:0771089252
Description: New. The fascinating history of a writing culture and technology. The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history that traces the haphazard trajectory of the typewriter's development and its various evolutionary dead ends. Darren Wershler-Henry casts amusing light on the tricks of the first typewriter salesmen, important and unusual typewritten texts, the creation of On the Road, and the exploits of a typewriting cockroach named Archy, numerous monkeys, and even a couple of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780771089251ISBN:0771089252
Description: New in New jacket. Brand New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, All orders are shipped by kbooks every business day. read more
Description: Cornell Univ. Press. Ithaca and London. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8014-4586-6. Hardcover. Illustrations. Index. 331 pages. Very good condition. Dust jacket showing very slight wear. Pictures by email upon request. read more
Edition: annotated edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 3/7/2007
ISBN-13:9780801445866ISBN:0801445868
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: CORNELL UNIV PR
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780801445866ISBN:0801445868
Description: New. The fascinating history of a writing culture and technology. "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history that traces the haphazard trajectory of the typewriter's development and its various evolutionary dead ends. Darren Wershl... read more
Description: Good. 0801445868 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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