John Vassos Illus (16 results)

Hardcover. Small Quarto. Hardcover. Quaterbound in black cloth with cream boards. Gilt stamped titles. 75 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. G+. Boards are speckled and toned. Otherwise interior is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Covers rubbed, with edges sun-darkened and worn; extremities frayed; pages slightly edge-browned; previous owner's notation on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). Signed by John Vassos on. . 102p. Illus. Frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback book (57 pages) with black and white illustrations by John Vassos. Boards are scuffed/soiled/slightly warped - private bookplate with inscription on front endpaper - most pages have damp stain on margins edge - binding is still firm - would rate a good reading copy. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG2-Top) rareviewbooks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B Specials, East Wall: This hardcover is inscribed and signed by the illustrator. Nice hardcover, do to publisher's tight paper hinge, separation at the rear gutter. light wear to the edges. Black spine, gilt title. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

77 pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Armorial bookplate; same owner's large ownership signature; gold lettering on spine a little flaked with a few stray marks to the cloth; contents clean; tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Includes sixteen full page illustrations from the imagination of John Vassos. This was the third Wilde work illustrated by renowned book illustrator and industrial designer, John Vassos. This edition was limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, this is copy 165. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Moderate shelf/edge wear, spine sunned, tips through, light toning to text block edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, black cloth spine, green paper boards, pale green endpapers. 8vo. 102pp. Illus. (b/w plates).…

Hardcover. Extremities slightly worn; covers rubbed, with a sheen; pages slightly toned and edge-browned; otherwise very good condition in mylar cover. . Unnumbered pages. Illus.

Hardcover. Backstrip sun-faded; extremities slightly worn, with bottom corner of front cover bumped and frayed; pages slightly toned and edge-browned; previous owners name inside front cover; otherwise very good condition. . 104p. Illus. Folio.

Hardcover. First edition. Cover edges sun-faded; faint dampstain at outside edge and bottom corner of front cover; extremities frayed; stains at corners of endpapers where once a dust jacket had been taped; page faintly toned, with edges foxed; small stain on p. 104 and opposite page; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). . 104p. Limited to 2000 copies. Illus. Folio.…

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1929. First Edition. Large, slim quarto (31cm); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket; unpaginated; halftone frontispiece and illus. throughout. Jacket dust-soiled and quite chipped and worn with several losses to margins and spine ends never quite approaching text, spine panel toned. Near Fine in a Good only example of the fragile jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illus. by John Vassos, 9.5 x 7", cloth backed pict boards, 124pp, covers well worn, extremities bumped and chipped, ink inscriptions from former owners at top of front fly, pp toned, scattered spotting; a well-used copy. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "very sincerely" AND SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, JOHN VASSOS on half-title page.…

124 pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. 8vo, publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g., in dust jacket. First of this illustrated edition; No. 137 of 200 copies signed by John Vassos. Very slightest of rubbing at the extremities and corner tips; otherwise a fine copy. The dust jacket is split at the joints and the backstrip is in pieces, lacking about a 1" section, with some other small chips.…

Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1930. First Trade Edition. Quarto (26cm); unpaginated. Boards bound in blue cloth with black stamping to front panel and spine. Lacks dust jacket. Twenty-one full-page illustrations. Boards bumped. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned; first free endsheet shows smudging. Former owner's bookplate at first fixed endsheet. Very Good minus. Ultimo imagines a future in which earth has become so inhospitable to humans that they must retreat beneath the surface of the earth. In this subterranean civilization, social conventions like marriage become foreign and scientific progress accelerates. Over time, inhabitants' curiosity grows and a group develops a spaceship-like device that will deliver passengers to the surface of the earth. Text accompanied by striking art deco- and cubist-style illustrations by the author's husband, industrial designer John Vassos. Kessler, Daring to Dream p273. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1928. First Trade Edition. Small Quarto; black cloth-backed boards; illustrated dust jacket; 124pp. Sixteen plates with tissue guards featuring illustrations by Vassos, including frontispiece, complete. Mild shelfwear and rubbing to boards; binding sound; contemporary gift inscription to preliminaries. Dust jacket lightly worn and chipped along edges and folds with some general rubbing; a Very Good copy. The rear panel reads, "Vassos' interpretation of Wilde's masterpiece, illustrating the emotional experiences of a condemned prisoner in his last days.". …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1927. First Trade Edition. Small Quarto; black boards stamped in gilt; decorative endpapers; illustrated dust jacket; 57pp. Thirteen plates featuring illustrations by Vassos, including frontispiece, complete. Mild shelfwear to boards and spine very slightly cocked; binding sound and pages unmarked. Dust jacket chipped with several tears and tape mending to verso; colors remain bright; still about a Very Good copy.…

First Vassos trade edition, first printing, inscribed on the half-title by the illustrator, "To Josephine Allen, in symbolism, John Vassos", and with Allen's signature on the front pastedown. Vassos's art-deco illustrations poignantly complement Wilde's famous poem. Vassos (1898-1985) was an American industrial and graphic designer famous for designing the first commercially available television sets and many popular logos. In 1926, Vassos's design for a cover illustration for a stage production of Salomé caught the attention of the publishers E. P. Dutton, resulting in a Vassos-illustrated edition of the play published in 1927. He illustrated eight further books, of which this is the second. Octavo. Monochrome frontispiece, 15 plates by Vassos, all with tissue guards. Original blue boards, black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, front board with illustration in black and gilt, pale grey endpapers, top edge blue, fore and bottom edges uncut. With dust jacket. Spine a little cocked, top edge toned, closed tear to outer margin of pp. 35-6; jacket unclipped, nicks, chips, and short closed tears to extremities, spine sunned: a very good copy in like jacket.…