No Country for Old Typewriters - A Well-Used One Heads to Auction

“…Christie’s, which plans to auction the machine on Friday, estimated that it would fetch between $15,000 and $20,000. Mr. McCarthy wrote an authentication letter — typed on the Olivetti, of course…” —via NYTimes.com

fleamarkets:

Thanksgiving Greetings

vintage postcard from 1911

vintage Caedmon spoken word LPs
(discovered via Spine Out)

Illustration for Jerusalem tourism poster by Eliezer Weishoff c.1960s (via sandiv999)

vintage General Dynamics ad designed by Erik Nitsche

cover design for Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom
by Paul Rand c. 1963 (via studiosmith)

vintage Czech film poster c. 1971
(via maraid)

a lovely collection of vintage children’s book cover designs
(via GIGI Interior Design 集集設計)

FaceOut Books collects Alvin Lustig jacket designs too.
I’m jealous of their incredible collection.

Alex Steinweiss, The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover limited-edition book,
just published by TASCHEN Books, with author Steven Heller

(incase you are wondering what to get me for my birthday…)

“Are You Square” book by Ethel & Leonard Kessler c. 1966 (via michelledeluca)

Israeli postage stamp: “Welcome to Israel” c. 1967,
designed by Asher Kalderon

collection of vintage linoleum floor design, c. 1952 

(discovered via Daily Bungalow)

vintage travel posters, above designed by Jaques Nathan Garamond (via grain edit)

fleamarkets:

Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character by Alistair Cooke

cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer, c. 1940