125 Years International Sleeping Car Company: Trains de Luxe - History and Posters - Hardcover

Albert Muhl; Jurgen Klein

9783882556841: 125 Years International Sleeping Car Company: Trains de Luxe - History and Posters

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3882556846 ISBN 13: 9783882556841

Publisher: VG-Bild-Kunst, 1998

Published to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the famed Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (International Sleeping Car Co.), this oversized book contains a detailed history of the company and more than 300 full color posters and brochures produced by the Company. The trains went everywhere and hired the best artists to showcase the trains. Invaluable not only for the railroad historian but also but also for those interested in the history of advertising and poster art. Main text is in French and German but includes about twenty pages of English translation of the primary pages. Includes company chronology, list of the trains, bibliography and index. 296 pages.

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