The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Vintage Posters for Libraries and Reading

By Maria Popova

After a look at those vintage ads for iconic books, how about some vintage ads and posters for all books? Delightfully colorful and brimming with endearingly bad copywriting, these mid-century gems exude the same charming literary enthusiasm we’ve previously seen in the reading PSA posters of the WPA era.

Complement with Maurice Sendak’s little-known and lovely posters celebrating reading and this photographic love letter to public libraries, then see Franz Kafka on what books do for the human soul and Rebecca Solnit’s beautiful meditation on why we read.

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Published September 11, 2012
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/09/11/vintage-ads-for-libraries-and-reading/
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