John Vassos Illustrator (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket. 9 1/4 x7 1/4 inches. 77 pages printed on quality paper. Bound in cream cloth covered boards with black spine strip. Information to spine and cover in gold. With finely printed full page illustration for each elegy. With bookplate to first page. VERY GOOD. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Gold to spine rubbed. But for some yellow stain to non-illustrated page 47, interior pages not marked and very clean and bright. Cover shows signs of handling. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with 16 tissue guarded plates by John Vassos. Two pages with a bit of marginal loss from rough opening, Small ink name to free endpaper, lacking dust wrapper. VASSOS, John (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cloth and boards little chipped at edges, bookplate to front fixed endpaper, VG lacking the dj. Numerous full-page illos by Vassos.

E.P. Dutton first edition (not stated but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). [6], 124 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 18.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Black cloth spine with muted lettering; blue paper boards rubbed and toned with worn corners. Text block edges toned; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Past owner's ink signature on front free endpaper; some toning/foxing to endpapers; light margin toning to interior leaves which are otherwise clean. Features sixteen Art Deco-influenced b/white illustrations ("conceptions") by John Vassos including frontispiece all on unpaged leaves and with their tissue guard sheets intact. Binding is firm. {PoetryShelf#2}.…

Hardcover. Octavo, 75 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is tan with black print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, tear to rear panel, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and white cloth to boards. Peripheral toning to white cloth. Text block has tanning/foxing to endpapers, large owner stamp on front endpapers, toning to pages adjacent to plates. Illustrated with b&w frontispiece and plates. "Gray's Elegy"- title on dust jacket. "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"- half-title page. 1372197. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket. 9 1/4 x7 1/4 inches. 124 pages printed on quality paper. Bound in blue and light gray patterned boards with glossy black spine strip. Information to spine in bright gold. With 16 finely printed full page duotone illustration. Book is VERY FINE. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. Dust jacket VERY GOOD. Same as above but for 1/2 chip to top of spine and 1 inch tear to bottom of front cover. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed .…

E.P. Dutton early printing (no printing statement provided but with 1930 on title page versus 1928 upon copyright page). [6], 124 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 18.5cm. Black, blue, and gold dust jacket has its front panel detached from rear panel/spine along front joint fold; long tearing to rear flap fold; several edge chips and tears; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth spine with patches of light discoloration; spine cloth slightly frayed at ends; spine's gilt lettering remains fairly bright; blue paper boards worn at corners; surface paper abraded mostly at top of rear board. Blue top edge; toning to deckle fore-edge and deckle bottom edge. Some foxing to endpapers; two small stains to front endpapers; interior pages remain mostly clean. Binding is firm. Features sixteen Art Deco-influenced b/white illustrations ("conceptions") by John Vassos including frontispiece all on unpaged leaves (but without tissue guard sheets as was presented with the Dutton 1928 first). {PoetryShelf#3}.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing thus: First edition illustrated by John Vassos. A beautiful edition of Wilde's poem written post-prison, in exile. A very good copy, without a jacket. All 16 illustrated plates (15 in-text and 1 frontispiece) and all tissue guards are intact. Small owner's signature on front endpaper. Spine slightly slanted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles and endpapers decorated in Art Deco style. With 12 unique black and white plates by a Modernist known for his Art Deco industrial works. Book is tight, clean and unmarked. jacket has a 1/2" V chip to the top inner corner and rear edge of DJ, and two gently closed tears to the bottom corners, else is whole, bright and clean. protected by a Brodart jacket cover. Scarce.…

Hardcover. Octavo, 124 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is black with gold print. Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and blue paper to boards; wear to spine caps and corners, peripheral toning to paper. Text block has name in ink on front pastedown, cracked rear hinge. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates with tissue guards. Inscribed in ink by the illustration on the half-title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1398868. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition thus. Original cloth-backed boards gilt; dust jacket. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN VASSOS and signed by him on the half-title. DJ is chipped along the edges and has a chip missing from the center of the spine. In mylar protective wrapper to minimize further damage.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ultimo by Ruth Vassos (First Edition) Signed Firm copy with bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Red cloth with bold gilt stamped titles and gilt, white and black ink decorative patterns on the front cover. A futuristic vision of the end of the earth, illustrated by Art Deco painter John Vassos and with text by his wife Ruth. Signed by John Vassos on half title page. John Vassos(Frontispiece Illustrator) John Vassos(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK.…