First Class: America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps

by David Hamsley and David Cobb Craig

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. Magnifies the stylish beauty of 144 mini-masterpiece postage stamps chronicling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764364715
• ISBN13: 9780764364716
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.9" x 10.7"