{"product_id":"first-class-americas-marvelous-midcentury-stamps-hardcover","title":"First Class: America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Cobb Craig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Hamsley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eMagnifies the stylish beauty of 144 mini-masterpiece postage stamps chronicling a stylish era of design from the late 1950s to the early 1970s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe roster includes Japanese American children's book illustrator Gyo Fujikawa, barrier-busting Black graphic artist Georg Olden, Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer, and sultan of psychedelia Peter Max. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDivulges the stories behind 144 tiny pieces of 1960s and 1970s art, including works by pop artist Robert Indiana and Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Photographed at five, ten, and even fifteen times their actual size, each stamp is presented with a morsel of fun info that will broadly appeal to stamp collectors, history and nostalgia buffs, midcentury design fans, and everyone who likes to geek out on magnified views of teeny images. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765983019296,"sku":"9780764364716","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/12a248791351d90b316d84e3b05ea8b2.webp?v=1780283636","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/first-class-americas-marvelous-midcentury-stamps-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}