Get Ready For Type-In V
Five years ago when I opened Landmark Books I was given a flyer for an event being held in San Francisco called the Type-In. I was looking for events to have at my new bookstore and hadn’t considered typewriters since college, but thought I would give the idea try. I posted flyers and advertised the […]
How Did I Join the Typosphere?
I would like to thank Rose Soma of Western Michigan University for these questions concerning my interest and involvement in the Typosphere. How did you start buying and selling typewriters? Back in college I got a really part-time job at this office machine repair place. They repaired mostly electric typewriters, but would get in a couple […]
Unplug and Type-In At Landmark Books
On this day in 1868 a patent (US 79,265) was issued to Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W Soule of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for what they called the ‘type-writer’. Their machine was purchased for $12,000 by Densmore and Yost who peddled the design to E Remington and Sons. The Sholes Glidden Type-Writer went into […]
Landmark Books Buys, Sells and Services Typewriters
So we’ve been in the new location for three weeks now and I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone we do service old manual typewriters and also sell ribbons. In an effort to keep print alive we do our best to help those who love their typing machines. If we don’t have what […]