[IBM]   Machine Methods of Accounting. A Manual of the Basic Principles of Operation and Use of International Electric Bookkeeping and Accounting Machines. IBM, 1936-1940.  23 separately paginated sections, approximately 340pp, with illustrations throughout of machines and components, all gathered in a spring-loaded IBM binder of the same name.   A fine illustrated reconnaissance of the IBM company.   Fine condition, all 29 issues: $850

00. Foreword
01. Historical (in later editions, Development of International Business Machines Corporation (revised))
02. Principles of the Electronic Accounting Machine Method 
03. The Tabulating Card   3a. The Electric Accounting Machine Card. 
04. The Design of Tabulating Cards 
05. The Preparation and Use of Codes 
06. Organization and Supervision of the Tabulation Department
07. Selection and Training of Key Punch Operators
08. Accounting Control
09. Punches
10. Alphabetic Printing Punches 
11. Facts to Know about Key Punches 
12. Verifiers 
13. Gang Punches
14. Card Operated Sorting Machines 
15. Electric Tabulating Machines
16. Electric Accounting Machines (Type 285 and Type 297)
17. Alphabetic Direct Subtraction Accounting Machine
18. Interpreters   18a. Electric Punched Card Interpreter Type 552
19. Reproducing Punches (and supplement 19a)  AND Reproducing Punches Type 512.

20. Automatic Summary Punches (Type 285-297; 20a – Type 405)  AND:  Automatic Summary Punches, for Use with the Numerical Accounting Machines Type 285-297. 

21. Multiplying Punches

22. Applications of Machines to Accounting Functions
23. Other International Products

24. The International Automatic Carriage (Type 921)

[IBM]   Machine Methods of Accounting. A Manual of the Basic Principles of Operation and Use of International Electric Bookkeeping and Accounting Machines. IBM, 1936.  10 separately paginated sections, massively illustrated throughout with images of machines and components.   A fine illustrated reconnaissance of the IBM company and its early tabulating machines. Superb!  Fine condition.__+__ Includes 03. the Electric Accounting Machine Card, 20pp; 04, The Design of Tabulating Cards, 16pp; 05. The Preparation and Use of Codes, 28pp; 06. Organization and Supervision of the Tabulation Department, 16pp; 07. Selection and Training of Key Punch Operators, 12pp; 08. Accounting Control, 8pp; 13, Gang Punches, 8pp; 14. Card Operated Sorting Machines, 14pp; 20. Automatic Summary Punches (Type 285-297; 20a – Type 405) , 16pp; 22. Applications of Machines to Accounting Functions, 24pp.$220