INTERNATIONAL POSTER ANNUAL '48-'49
W.H. Allner and A. M. Cassandre

W.H. Allner and A. M. Cassandre (editors): INTERNATIONAL POSTER ANNUAL '48-'49. Switzerland: Zollikofer, 1959. First edition. Text & captions in English, French & German. A very good hardcover book with a good fragile dust jacket: Natural buckram w/ gold foil stamped covers that show a trivial amount of wear. The DJ is chipped to edges with lightly sun-darkened spine. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A very elegant production. Dust jacket design by A. M. Cassandre.

10 x 11.5 hardcover book with 178 pages and 479 carefully selected posters reproduced in b/w. A truly amazing anthology. Highly recommended. Includes essays by W. H. Allner, E. Mcknight Kauffer, Jean Picart Le Doux, Eugen Bauer, jack Beddington, Fritz Buhler, and Dr. E. Holscher.

This is the first issue of the INTERNATIONAL POSTER ANNUAL; the only book devoted exclusively to current poster art, it assembles a striking collection of 479 carefully selected posters by the best known artists and designers of the following 15 countries: Belgium Holland, Denmark, Sweden England, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Switzerland the U.S.A.

Artists and designers whose work is reproduced in this volume include Thomas Eckersley, Hans Schleger, A. M. Cassandre, Jean Colin, Paul Colin, Jacques Nathan, Jean Picart Le Doux, Paolo Garretto, Bruno Munari, Hans Erni, Herbert Leupin, Josef Muller-Brockmann, Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Joseph Binder, Will Burtin, jean Carlu, George Giusti, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Rand, Ladislav Sutnar and many other international designers.

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