Vintage ROYAL Quiet DeLuxe Typewriter with it's original carrying case~ Royal's most popular models, Chrome Accents with Green Keys!

Classic Vintage ROYAL Quiet DeLuxe Typewriter in carrying case~ Royal's most popular models, Chrome Accents with Green Keys! You can't help but think of a Vintage Manual Typewriter when you hear the name ROYAL! With I-Pods, computers, laptops & cell phones future generations are going to look at typewriters like they are from the stone ages! This is an excellent example of the simpler times!

Ernest Hemingway's favorite style of typewriter, the Quiet DeLuxe (in various modifications) was one of Royal's most popular models outselling all others of all time. Royal Typewriter, Quiet DeLuxe, GREEN KEYS, Chrome Accents, Tk Tk Tk Tk Tk DING

This classic beauty comes from junquegypsy  !

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First Edition John Steinbeck Hard Cover - Cannery Row 1945 With Dust Jacket

Boy, was my heart jumping when I discovered this John Steinbeck First Edition ~

With the Dust Jacket no less!  I almost kept this one for myself.  

~ He won the Nobel Prize for Literature ~ 1962

~ He wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel  The Grapes of Wrath ~ 1939

Just some of Steinbeck's works include:

 Cup of Gold(1927),  Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath,

East of Eden, In Dubious Battle,

Travels With Charley, Cannery Row, The Wayward Bus .... the list goes on and on....
John Steinbeck died in New York City on December 20, 1968, he was only 66.

John Steinbeck



Pulitzer Prize winning novel
 The Grapes of Wrath ~ 1939

 

The street that Steinbeck described as "Cannery Row" in the novel, once named Ocean View Avenue, was renamed Cannery Row in honor of the novel, in 1958.

The town of Monterey has commemorated Steinbeck's work with an avenue of flags depicting characters from Cannery Row, historical plaques, and sculptured busts depicting Steinbeck and Ricketts.



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 A cute bit of history about the Cannery Row Book, The 1950 Tweety Bird cartoon "Cannery Row" and the 1967 Tom and Jerry cartoon short "Cannery Rodent"  have their titles based on a play-on-words of this book's name.