Manuals and Specimens For Sale

Please see the list below for all titles and prices. All prices are negotiable, the point is to get these in people’s hands and reduce the number of boxes I’m going to have to carry! All conditions are good with signs of age and wear, but intact and useable unless noted otherwise.

Note: Preference given to buyer(s) in the Chicago area who would like to come pick them up in Chicagoland and save me the hassle of shipping. I am regularly in Southeast Wisconsin, northwest Indiana and the western suburbs of Chicago, so if you’re “local ish” I could probably meet you somewhere and really make it worth your while! I’m motivated to move these out.

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1.) SOLD 2 glossy Matrotype Specimen catalogs. Very nice condition. $15
2.) Large, brown cloth bound Monotype Specimen catalog - fair condition. Well loved. Bindings worn, but pages are intact. This one went around the shop a lot it looks like! $90
3.) Blue Fabric bound Intertype Faces Specimen Catalog - $75
4.) “A Practical Touch System for Linotypes, Intertypes, and Linographs” - wonderful slipcover with small pamphlets just the right size for teaching how to cast at the keyboard! 1938, very good condition. Bonus newspaper advert clipping included. $70
1.) “Parts Catalog for Linotypes 8, 14, 25, 26 Catalog Number 30” 1936 - $25
2.) “Parts Catalog for Linotypes 8, 14, 25, 26 Catalog Number 30” 1936 - $25
3.) “Parts Catalog for Linotypes 8, 14, 25, 26 Catalog Number 30” 1936 - $25
4.) Parts Catalog 31 The Linotype Self-Quadder 1941 - $15
5.) Parts Catalog 31 The Linotype Self-Quadder 1941 - $15
6.) Parts Catalog for the Linotype Self-Quadder 1949 - $15
7.) Parts Catalog for the Linotype Self-Quadder 1949 - $15
8.) “Casting and Driving Mechanisms Parts Catalog No. 52 for models 5, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35,36” 1957- $15
9.) “Casting and Driving Mechanisms Parts Catalog No. 52 for models 5, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35,36” 1957- $15
10.) “Parts Catalog for Blue Streak Linotypes Models 8. 14. 29, 30, 31, 32 Catalog No. 40” - $40
11.) Hardcover Linotype Parts Catalog No. 30 for models 8, 14, 25, 26” 1934 - $45
12.) Linotype Machine Principles 1940 first printing yellow and green hardcover, (with little repeating linotype pattern I love it!) - $65
13.) Linotype Machine Principles 1940 red hardcover, fourth printing - $45
14.) Saddle-stitched supplement catalog “Linotype Accessories and Supplies Catalog no, 56” - $15
15.) Orange paperbound saddle stitched “Special Supplies Catalog no. 27” 1936 - $15
16.) “Special Supplies Catalog no. 27” 1925 - cover sheet a bit rougher condition, but interior is still clean, all pages, and intact - still pretty good for a hundred year old paper catalog! - $25
17.) 3 instruction manuals as a lot: “Instruction Book for the Linotype Manually COntrolled Hydraquadder” red paper cover, 1955; “Linotype Instruction book for the Electrically Cooled Hydraquadder” blue paper cover, and “Linotype Instruction book for the Micro-Therm Electric Pot (Comet Type)” Green paper cover. - $25
18.) 2 manuals as a lot: “Linotype Maintenance Manual” 1943, blue paper cover; “Useful Matric Information” green paper cover 1937 - $35
19.) “Manual for the Operation of Heidleberg Platens” Very good condition. printed in “Western Germany”. - $40

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