Mr. Hans Kuener @ his computer 
Whoa!
Fascinating: I found I had an almost pristine copy of that Ross book on my bookshelf.
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A price tag of DM 8500.
Ooof… I’ll bring this to the next thread where people argue about who gets the shorter end of the stick when there’s a grace period before an update.
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They are quite expensive now. On Amazon they are $175-250, and recent sales on eBay have been $100+ too. I had a copy that I lost at some point (maybe it’s in a box in the attic) so rebought my current copy 10-15 years ago. If yours is really mint condition it’s probably fairly valuable.
It is to me. 
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Terrific. And here is another YouTube video, by Henle Verlag, also featuring Hans Huehner.
There’s an interesting book that deals specifically with the notation of new music: Erhard Karkoschka, Das Schriftbild der Neuen Musik, Moeck Verlag 1966.
It’s amazing what was possible by hand back then
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Refrain für drei Spieler. First page. Universal Edition, Wien.
Apparently there was also an English translation.
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I own that one! Very cool book with amazing examples!
The Karl Hader book is good too for plate engraving info:
(and no, I can’t speak German, but have read through them using Google Translate on my phone)
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I thought it was Dark Vader’s theme.
Equally terrifying. 
This book gives a historical overview of music printing from the 18th century to the mid-1980s. A couple of music typewriters are shown, the first before the First World War, around 1910:
The second part of the book “Die Praxis des Notengraphikers” reads like an early version of Elaine Gould’s “Behind Bars”, just not as detailed.
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