[Rarebooks] WTB: Hermes/ Paillard Parts Manual (In Looseleaf Binder)

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About nine years ago I entrusted my Hermes Typewriter (Paillard Manufacturing, Yverdon, Switzerland)
Parts manual to a printer, for purposes of archival reproduction, so the data  would not be forever lost). The printer subsequently became lost in drugs and desperation and lost or sold it, does not respond to my requests as to whereabouts, recollection of grtting rid of the manual, etc.

It was a standard-size, reddish looseleaf binder, maybe 2 inches thick at the binding,  containing full-page exploded drawings of the mechanical functions which comprised each of the successive models of the Hermes 3000 Typewriter (HP-2 / 58), (HP-2 / 66) and the (HP-2 / 71 — Media 3). parts lists/numbers etc. I recsll near the end was a photograph of the factory at Yverdon, Switzerland.

The book meant a lot to me because for 50 years I have owned and heavily used several beautiful, round-bumpered Hermes 3000s — arguably the best manual typewriter ever constructed for high quality craftsmanship, elegant design, and just plain punchy, definitive clackety-clack “key-feel”.  Between 2013 in 2017, I sent out 650 typewritten letters through the mails, none copied, all composed on the Hermes 3000. 

If any one if my bookselling colleagues ever, EVER, happened across one of these manuals — and it’s quite unlikely — would you kindly let me know?

The Paillard factory shut down decades ago and while there are today many Hermes 3000s on ebay, years of seeking has not yielded a parts manual.

Finally I realized if any demographic group might tend to have one of these, say purchased in a large lot of other books, it might be you, my esteemed colleagues. A long shot, to be sure, but not outside the realm of possibility.

Thank you so much for keeping an eye out. And by the way, someone named T. Munk has lovingly assembled and published something called “the Hermes 3000 and Media 3 Typewriter Repair Bible (typewriterdatabase.com). It’s lively and comprehensive, but it’s not the parts manual I yet seek.

Thank you so much,


Ezra 

ps. The two basic choices amongst the Hermes, were pica — 10 character spaces per inch —  or Elite — 12 character spaces per inch, with a dozen typefaces from which to choose for the 3000 models. I’m a Pica man. 



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