Of course, what was I thinking!

Fleetwing wrote:

...what brand of typewriter is depicted? Underwood?

Not an Underwood. Pretty sure it's a 1930s Olympia model.
 

Uwe wrote:

It never fails to astound me when I look at eBay listings and find items such as this one. It's bad enough that it's not a very good photo to begin with, and I suppose it can be overlooked that a filthy typewriter was used as a model, but where's the ribbon? Are we to assume that the photographer typed "Chapter ONE," advanced the platen one line, and then removed the ribbon, presumably just to make the photo more artistic? Or is there some sort of dark magic at play here, an invisible ribbon with an endless supply of black ink that can be used with any typewriter? This eBay seller's motto must be "a fool and his money are easily separated."

 

True as this old adage is (I could write a book on my little-bit-o-money-armed foolishness just from the last five years alone), I think this is a case of either ignorance on the part of the photographer of how typewriters work, or a phobia of ribbons as dirty things (which they are) that would mess up the picture.  Then along comes E-Bay, who not being responsible for a poster's authenticity, will sell anything from children's books to car parts to specialty astronaut diapers (unused, of course), provided it turns it a profit.  Not everyone is knowledgeable of how typewriters work, and some people aren't sure of what one even is.
 

Unless I'm much mistaken, the printing was added post - and it looks like a Photoshop font to me.