PM
November 1935
Robert L. Leslie and Percy Seitlin [Editors]
Robert L. Leslie and Percy Seitlin [Editors]: P-M [An Intimate Journal For Art Directors, Production Managers, and their Associates]. New York: The Composing Room/P.M. Publishing Co., Volume 2, No. 3: November 1935. Original edition. Slim 12mo. 4-color similetone process wrappers by Georges Schreiber. 32 pp. Illustrated articles and advertisements. Multiple paper stocks. Wrappers lightly worn. First couple of leaves lightly foxed. A very good or better copy.
5.5 x 7.75 digest with 32 pages of articles including the Making of Pulp (w/ 2 full-page Margaret Bourke-White photos), Aldus Manutius, Theodore Low De Vinne, Photostat Prints, Edward Epstean, Georges Schreiber, Color Photography, and Type Metal.
Contents: Frontispiece; Editorial Notes; The Making of Pulp; The Renaissance of Aldus Manutius; Theodore Low DeVinne; Photostat Prints; Edward Epstein; PM Shorts; George Schreiber; Color Photography; What about Type Metal; and Unmailed letters from a Production Manager.
Georges Schreiber was an accomplished illustrator whose career started with a series of life portraits of world celebrities. Commissioned in 1925 by a German newspaper syndicate, the portraits include 8 Nobel Prize winners, authors Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Gertrude Stein and scientists Albert Einstein and Paul Von Hindenberg. His formal training consisted of one year at the Academies of Fine Arts in Berlin and Dusseldorf. His informal training came through several years of travel in England, France and Italy as well as visits to the studios of such painters as Derain, Matisse, Chagall, Leger and Braque. He came to New York in 1928 and stayed for nine months. He settled permanently in 1933. He did book illustrations for Farrar and Rhinehart, Simon and Schuster, Houghton Mifflin and John Day. He also was a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Pictorial Review, Stage, Bookman, The New Yorker and Esquire.
PM magazine was the leading voice of the U. S. Graphic Arts Industry from its inception in 1934 to its end in 1942 (then called AD). As a publication produced by and for professionals, it spotlighted cutting-edge production technology and the highest possible quality reproduction techniques (from engraving to plates). PM and A-D also championed the Modern movement by showcasing work from the vanguard of the European Avant-Garde well before this type of work was known to a wide audience.