Sexy Legs and Typewriters [Paperback]

Paul Robert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003

Sexy Legs and Typewriters depicts beautiful women and typewriters as they appeared together in vintage advertising; humorous photo series and postcards; glamour photos; and erotica. This richly illustrated book covers all these areas, from the first woman to appear in a typewriter ad to a large collection of vintage pinups and nudes.

112 pages with 150 photos.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: The Virtual Typewriter Museum (October 2003)
• ISBN-10: 9074999069
• ISBN-13: 978-9074999069
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,667,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The title says it all, doesn't it?, March 21, 2006

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James Crossley (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sexy Legs and Typewriters (Paperback)

What's not to like? Two perennially favorite topics joined under one cover. There's nothing hardcore to be found within, just (almost) family-friendly cheesecake from decades past. If you really need an excuse to buy it, the book serves as an interesting survey of a broad variety of advertising techniques--if by broad we consider only those techniques that subscribe to the theory that a picture of a pretty girl never hurts sales.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where the Skin meets the Steel, November 15, 2004

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Lynda Beckler (Stockton, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sexy Legs and Typewriters (Paperback)

Paul Robert, the internationally known typewriter collector, restoration expert and historian is having a bit of fun and we're all invited to join in and take a peek!
Sexy Legs and Typewriters chronicles the history of women in typewriter advertising materials.
Paul begins with a very early ad depicting typewriter inventor C. Lathom Sholes' prim and proper daughter, Jenny, encased in a victorian bodice and layer upon layer of skirts.
Don't despair! The models get prettier and more scantily-clad as you progress through the text.
Of course, you understand, some of us bought the book for the wonderfully detailed photographs of the typewriters!!
This is erotica at its very best!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun and Thoughtful Book, November 15, 2004

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Typewheel1940 (Newark, DE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sexy Legs and Typewriters (Paperback)

Paul Robert's "Sexy Legs and Typewriters" is both fun and thoughtful. Photographic and advertising graphics are combined with the author's commentary to create a history of the changing perceptions of women as clerks in the offices of North America and Europe during more than a century.
The book can be read on several levels. Of course, the large number of mostly unpublished graphic images alone are enough to make this book an enjoyable peruse. But, in combination with Paul Roberts' interesting discussions, the graphics make this book an essential companion to many other books on the development of popular business culture.