Description
| Product ID: | 9780764364716 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | First Class |
| Subtitle: | America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps |
| Authors: | Author: David Cobb Craig, David Hamsley |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Collecting stamps, philately, Stamps, philately, USA, c 1945 to c 1960, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | A rare, magnified look at America's best-designed stamps from the mid-20th century! A rare, magnified look at America''s best-designed stamps from the mid-20th century! Every picture tells a story—even one on a postage stamp. Presented enormously enlarged, the 128 stamps in this book chronicle a stylish era of design: mid-20th-century America. Spanning the late 1950s to the early 1970s, these mini-masterpieces were created when the US post office started to lavish color on its stamps and to hire the best midcentury talents to design them.
A native of the cotton-ginning town of Oak Grove, Louisiana, and a lifelong philatelist, author David Cobb Craig became enchanted with postage when in the 1960s and ’70s he saw pictures of about-to-come-out stamps posted on the bulletin board at his small local post office (71263). |
| Imprint Name: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-12-06 |
