1st generation (1958-66)
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One example. Colors, sub-models, and production years vary; the machine you find may differ.
Hermes 30001st gen, "curvy"
What people say
"one of the noblest instruments of European genius"
— Larry McMurtry · Brokeback Mountain Golden Globe acceptance, 2006
"smooth and quiet, the writer's typewriter"
"exceptional touch and a near-silent operation"
Used by
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar manuscript (early 1960s)
Jack Kerouac
Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
Larry McMurtry
much of his fifty-year output (1960s–2010s)
Stephen Fry
drafts of Moab Is My Washpot (1990s)
See & hear it for yourself
All sources
External, in their original form. The people who know these machines best — click through to read and watch.
Specifications
- Manufacturer
- Paillard / Hermes
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Years
- 1958–1966
- Form
- Portable
- Mass
- 5 kg
- Shift
- segment