$125.00
Fun with Your Typewriter
by Madge Roemer
Copyright 1956. The Falcon's Wing Press.
Softcover book. Cover has light wear about the edges, a bit of soil, some
light browning. No writing within, pages are clean and in very good condition.
This book is really a hoot! I had three years of typing in high
school, and there were always days when the teachers would give us art projects
for our typewriters. It was different, and at that time, it was fun. We
usually had fairly simple things to make - a Christmas tree, an Easter egg,
a house, etc., but this book has a plethora of people (complete with names!),
bookplates, borders, ducks, birds, dogs, horses, greeting cards, abc letters,
and more.
"Never underestimate the power of your typewriter. Just
fancy spending minutes at your machine to create gay portraits of family
and friends; inventive, personal-touch birthday and Christmas cards; funny
cartoons; attention-getting direct-mail ads; amusing sketches for sales
letters. ... Whether you work in an office or stay at home, you can make
your day's round of duties more enjoyable and profitable by resorting to
Fun with Your Typewriter, which offers an irresistibly easy way of turning
a typewriter into an art medium. You don't have to get a commercial artist
to draw eye-catching illustrations for business circulars. And, in folk-art
style, you can put romantic hearts-and-flowers designs into personal letters.
Let your eight typing fingers and the space bar do art work on the typewriter.
... As you turn the pages of this book, you will find 260 cartoons, 17 greeting
cards, 5 bookplates, 20 borders, and 5 entirely new alphabets created out
of standard typewriter characters. All of it is done with standard spacing,
without freeing the roller or sliding the paper. ... Easy-to-follow instructions
tell you what to do line by line. Your own imagination will provide endless
variations. ... Madge Roemer has prepared a clever book loaded with ideas.
Open it, sit down at your typewriter, follow the how-the-trick-is-done instructions,
discover your talent, and have fun!"
105 pages. A rare copy of this out-of-print book.
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