Paperback Book Sale!


Chicago Interior
The first modern paperback book was published sixty-five years ago today by Sir Allen Lane of London.

What better reason to have an online sale of paperback books published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum!

The following books are 20% off if you purchase them online:

American Photographs: The First Century (From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art), written by Merry A. Foresta

Celebrate America in Poetry and Art, edited by Nora Panzer

National Museum of American Art, foreword by Elizabeth Broun

Posters American Style, written by Therese Thau Heyman

Click on the book title to read a description or make a purchase.

Pictured: J. Theodore Johnson, born 1902, Chicago Interior, about 1934, oil, 28 1/8 x 34 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor.