TYPEWRITER: THE HISTORY, THE MACHINES, THE WRITERS

Book ID/图书代码： 14630015B80173

English Summary/英文概要： The computer may have taken over from the typewriter, but these venerable writing machines are staging a comeback. From the portables hipsters are snapping up in Urban Outfitters to Tom Hanks’s best-selling app, the typewriter has never been so cool. Inside you’ll learn what a platen knob is; why qwerty won out over other arrangements of keys, and which authors loved (or loathed) their typewriters.

• A gift book that celebrates the typewriter

• Cool vintage look with yellowed paper & typewriter fonts

• Full of typewriter history and trivia, archive photos of writers at their typewriters, and gorgeous photos

• Fascinating quotes and first hand accounts

• Timeline history of the typewriter, with key models

• With a foreword by Paul Schweitzer of Gramercy Typewriter Co.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 或许电脑的诞生已经替代了打字机的存在，但这些曾经令人敬佩的书写机器如今正上演着一场强势的逆袭。从便携式低腰裤在郊区旅行用品商店的抢购一空，到汤姆•汉克斯的爆红APP，可以说打字机从来没有像今天这样的流行和酷炫过。通过它，你将深入了解什么是滚筒旋钮；为什么标准的传统键盘要远胜其他按键布局，以及那种类型的作家会大爱（或是讨厌）它们家的打字机。

•庆祝打字机的精选礼品书籍

•酷炫的复古造型搭配有黄色纸张和打字机字体

•充满了历史感和细节感，有关于坐在打字机前的作家们的档案照片，以及其他神圣美丽的照片。

•精辟的引用和第一手资料

•打字机历史时间轴，标注有关键型号

•由德国打字机公司的保罗•施韦泽为本书题序（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 获得牛津基督圣体学院历史专业文凭和印第安纳大学新闻专业文凭后，托尼•阿兰曾作为一名杂志编辑就职于应该过广播公司，随后他转而进入了出版行业。在伦敦和亚历桑德拉市从事 Time-Life Books出版的13年间，他作为一名编辑和作者参与了多种系列作品的编撰，其中包括24册Time-Life History of the World。从那以后，便为Usborne出版社进行童书创作，为Heinemann教育进行教材编写以及为成年读者创作的历史与科幻读物，包括The Mythic Bestiary (2008), Prophecies (2009), 以及Vikings: The Battle at the End of Time (2010)。最终其书籍作品被翻译成14种语言，其中包括韩语、日语等。

After studying History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Journalism at Indiana University, Tony Allan worked for the British Broadcasting Company and as a magazine editor before turning to book publishing. In the course of a 13-year stint with Time-Life Books in London and Alexandria, Va., he served as editor and writer on multi-volume book series including the 24-volume Time-Life History of the World. He has since written children’s books for Usborne Publishing and schoolbooks for Heinemann Educational, as well as titles for adults on history and myth including The Mythic Bestiary (2008), Prophecies (2009), and Vikings: The Battle at the End of Time (2010). At last count his books had been translated into 14 languages, including Korean and Japanese.

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