Westvaco Inspirations for Printers: 1944 1945. Numbers 145 to 156.
No Place: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1945. Cloth. Good. Item #021070
1944/45. Brown cloth. Unpaginated, several hundred pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. A bound volume of sorts, collecting 12 issues of Inspirations for Printers spanning the years 1944 to 1945. Original covers are preserved/included. Issued by Westvaco, a mill and paper company originally known as the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. The company underwent a variety of acquisitions through the later 1900s and 2000s, and is now essentially part of the Verso Corporation. Each issue here depicts ideas for printing and advertising, demonstrating various printing techniques, various papers, artists and photographers. Artists with artwork present include Thomas Hart Benton, Miguel Covarrubias, Salvador Dali and others. Many bold color choices represented. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy fading. Minor soiling. Heavy scuffing along the extremities. Paper toned in the interior, with very minor scattered soiling.
Price: $100.00