Where Typewriters Took Me ~ autobiographical memoir of a NYC typewriter repairman, Benjamin Greenberger SIGNED

Title: Where Typewriters Took Me: The Places I Saw, The People I Met, The Situations I Was In

Author: Benjamin Greenberger

Description: Inscribed by author. Boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. One page has a corner crease, else fine. Dust jacket in an archival mylar sleeve. 630 pages.

An autobiographical memoir by the typewriter repairman Benjamin ''Ben'' Greenberger (1920-2014), who began repairing typewriters in New York City in 1936, and who in his five-decade career established numerous clients in the city, both large and small, and had contracts with major institutions, including Macy's, RCA, and the Federal Reserve Bank.
Greenberger's memoir is presented through a vast collection of anecdotes, giving a unique perspective on the ins-and-outs and the ups-and-downs in the life of a NYC typewriter repairman, and giving account of the many persons he worked both with and for. Greenberger retired in 1985.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine

Publisher: [published by author]
Place: [Portland, Oregon]
Year: 2010

Keywords: typewriters, repairmen, New York, United States, history, biography, autobiography,