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First Vassos trade edition, his art-deco illustrations poignantly complementing 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, his 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. 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, majority of leaves unopened. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket of Traver's, New Jersey, on rear pastedown. Spine ends bumped, extremities rubbed, light toning to outer margins; jacket unclipped, spine lightly faded, a little loss to ends, a handful of chips and closed tears to extremities: a very good copy in like jacket.…