Thomas Gray John Vassos (18 results)
Language: English
Published by E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., New York City, NY U.S.A., 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Porter and Frye, Amherst, NH, U.S.A.Porter and Frye
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. gray binding, gilt stamped lettering and smal floral illustration on front, black wrapper around spine with gilt lettering and smallmgilt illustrations, 17 b&w illustrations, previous owner signature on front ffep, 77 pages. John Vassos (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This is a clean, unmarked copy with moderate wear and slightly browning pages. John Vassos (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by E.P. Dutton, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Original black cloth spine and tan cloth boards. Very light dust offsetting at bottom edges of boards, else a fine, unmarked and tight copy. Superb plates by Vassos. Scarce.
Published by E.P. DUTTON & CO., NY, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.Gian Luigi Fine Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NO DJ, LETTERING TO SPINE AREA FADED, CLEAN COPY. JOHN VASSOS (illustrator).
Published by E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., New York, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.Carothers and Carothers
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 75 pages : illustrations. Publisher's binding sturdy, mild soiling to edges; contents fine. 450 grams. newly created into an illustrated book by John Vassos (illustrator).
Published by E. P. Dutton & Company (1931), New York, NY, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. (1931). . Hardcover. Sm 4to., 77 pp., cover foxing, toning in hinges . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).
Published by NY: E P Dutton, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.Nicholas J. Certo
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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.
Published by E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.Mullen Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 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.
ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 [author]; Vassos, John, 1898-1985 [illustrator]
Published by E.P. Dutton and Co, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 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.
Published by E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First edition. 75 pp. Small quarto [23 cm] 1/4 black cloth with ivory white cloth covered boards, and gilt stamped titles. Very good. There are a multitude of tiny stains on the covers, that are probably the result of foxing. The gilt stamped title on the spine is rubbed. There is a bookseller's faint ink stamp on the… front pastedown. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet, and the rear endsheet is darkened along the hinge. John Vassos was a 1930's book illustrator and long-term industrial designer. Among other projects, Vassos illustrated many of Oscar Wilde's literary works. John Vassos (illustrator).
Published by E. P. Dutton and Co Inc, [New York], 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller77 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.
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Published by New York, Verlag E.P. Dutton, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Antiquariat Lenzen, Düsseldorf, GermanyAntiquariat Lenzen
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Condition: Sehr gut. Groß-8°. 23,5 x 18 cm. 75 Seiten. 18 Tafeln. Handeinband von Gijs Wertel in schwarzem Ganzleder mit grauer Titelprägung und blindgeprägter Deckelillustration im passenden handgearbeiteten Pappschuber mit Lederkanten. 1. Auflage. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit Frontispiz und 7 weiteren Tafeln in Schwarz-Weiß…mit Illustrationen von John Vassos. Handeinband des niederländischen Buchbindermeisters Gijs Wortel mit blindgeprägtem Signet auf Innenkante des Vorderdeckels. Einband nur minimal berieben. Seiten leicht gebräunt und sehr vereinzelt leicht stockfleckig. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Hand binding by Gijs Wortel in full black morocco with grey-stamped title and blind-tooled cover illustration, housed in a matching handcrafted slipcase of board with leather edges. First edition. English-language issue. With frontispiece and 7 further black-and-white plates with illustrations by John Vassos. Hand binding by the Dutch master bookbinder Gijs Wortel with blind-stamped binder's mark on the inner edge of the front cover. Binding only minimally rubbed. Pages lightly darkened and with very occasional light foxing. Fine copy.
More imagesPublished by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.Mullen Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Cream cloth over boards with black cloth spine; gilt lettering. Brown dust jacket with black lettering. 77 deckled pp. 18 BW illustrations. Title on cover: Gray's Elegy. An excellent collection of poems with nice illustrations. VG-/Poor. Book has writing on first blank page, very minimal spots of soiling. Edges of cov…ers have slight wear, soiling/foxing. Otherwise contents are tanned but clean. Remnants of dust jacket, missing portions and stained. Vassos, John (illustrator).
Published by Dutton, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
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hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Frontispiece and black & white plates by John Vassos. 75 pages. Slim 8vo, two-toned blue & white cloth. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1931). First Edition. Very good(+). John Vassos (illustrator).
Published by E. P. Dutton, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In deep blue cloth over ivory cloth boards, gilt upper cover titling, 4to, 77pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. Signed and dated by John Vassos on free-front endpaper. (some toning and browning to cloth, spine titling dulled, browning at inne…r hinges). Illustrated by John Vassos (illustrator).

Published by E.P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, Manchester, NH, U.S.A.North Books: Used & Rare
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 6.75 x 8.75in. 75pp. Publisher's dual colored cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the slightest shelf rubbing of the edges, an interestingly unsigned former owner gift inscription where he mentions to the recipie…nt that Vassos used to be their neighbor, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the spine very lightly toned, some small nicks here and there, marginal loss of the bottommost of the back panel, otherwise remains bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
More imagesPublished by E.P. Dutton and Co, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. WARMLY, LENGTHILY INSCRIBED BY JOHN VASSOS TO HIS FRIENDS AND CAPE COD NEIGHBORS BLANCH AND STAN LOOMIS ("DEATH HAS A FASCINATION FOR MOST OF US, AND TO ME IT HAS BEEN A SUBJECT RICH FOR PICTORIAL EXPRESSION. MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING BEYOND."). The 1931 1st thus, the first pairing of T…homas Gray's immortal text with John Vassos' chilling, first-rate illustrations. Solid and VG in its duotone cloth, with mild soiling and spotting along the panels. Octavo, the verse of Thomas Gray, counterbalanced by the dark, ethereal images of John Vassos (1898-1985). John Vassos) (illustrator). Signed.
Published by E. P. Dutton & CIE, New-York, 1931
Seller: Librairie Pierre Chretien - Jean Izarn, PARIS, FranceLibrairie Pierre Chretien - Jean Izarn
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Illustrations de John VASSOS. New-York, E.P. Dutton and Co Inc Publishers, 1931, in-8, demi-toile noire et crème, couverture toilée titrée en doré, 78 pages. John VASSOS (Ioannis Vassocopoulos dit, 1898-1985), concepteur industriel et designer américain d'origine grecque né en Turquie. Il émigra aux Etats-Unis en 1919 suite à so…n engagement auprès des Révolutionnaires grecs. En 1924, il ouvrit à New-York son propre atelier où il expose ses créations, et notamment des fresques murales et de la publicité. A cette date, il crée son premier objet publicitaire. Entre 1927 et 1935 il illustra neufs livres, et notamment des oeuvres d'Oscar Wilde, et des oeuvres co-écrites avec sa femme. Première édition ornée des illustrations caractéristiques de Vassos pour ces poèmes parus en 1751. L'illustrateur apporte un souffle de modernisme à cette oeuvre. Envoi daté de l'illustrateur sur la page de garde. Ex-libris de Helen Wolfe. Infimes salissures à la reliure. Livre. . Illustrateur : VASSOS (John Ioannis Vassocopoulos, dit). (illustrator).