Author: Walker Rumble
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0813921619
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Features:
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0813921619
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Features:
The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races
On a December day in 1885, Bill Barnes, a journeyman from the New York World, and Joe McCann, representing the New York Herald, faced off in a match race of Swifts, compositors who set type by hand, individually, letter by letter, with incredible accuracy and speed. Search and download computer ebooks The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races for free.
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McCann got off to a slow start, but at the end of the four-hour race, he joined shopfloor legends Clinton "The Kid" DeJarnatt and the "Velocipede" George Arensberg as a working-class hero. It was not the last race of its kind between Swifts, but already looming were changes both social and technological that would cause these gifted tramp printers to disappear.In The Swifts, Walker Rumble, himself a printer and printing historian, follows the trail of these colorful compo
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Highly detailed ZVEZDA 1/72 scale unassembled plastic model kit of the Russian Acrobatic Team THE SWIFTS MiG-29.Kit is NEW and still factory sealed.ZVEZDA item: 7234 Cement and paints are not included.What you see is what you get!Dettagliato kit di montaggio in plastica , prodotto da ZVEZDA in scala 1/72, del MiG-29 in dotazione alla pattuglia Acrobatica Russa THE SWIFTS.Il kit è nuovo ed ancora sigillato dalla fabbrica.La scatola è in perfetto stato.Codice ZVEZDA: 7234 La colla e le vernici
That"s Zvezda 1:72 scale Swifts MIG-29 Aerobatic team.The model size 24 cmBox in the traditional style of Zvezda, bright and colorful, patterned. The box includes 5 sprues, at all 74 parts. The kit is cleanly molded in grey plastic. The plastic model kit includes 2 parts of hull, small parts, canopy, decal . Instrustion is laid out like most other diecast Zvezda kits.Historical information:The Swifts are a Soviet and later Russian aerobatic performance demonstrator team connected with the Russi
The second edition of this highly acclaimed book has been extensively revised by the author to take account of recent information, most particularly about the neotropical swifts, and several plates have been revised by the artist.
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McCann got off to a slow start, but at the end of the four-hour race, he joined shopfloor legends Clinton "The Kid" DeJarnatt and the "Velocipede" George Arensberg as a working-class hero
In The Swifts, Walker Rumble, himself a printer and printing historian, follows the trail of these colorful compo
