john vassos illust (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. B & W plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 57 pages; [SIGNED by Vassos] 1927 E. P. Dutton. HC. 1st trade edition. Signed by illustrator John Vassos on the half-title page. Bound in full black paper-covered boards lettered in gilt to cover and spine. Top inch and bottom three inches of the paper spine covering chipped and lost; binding shaken but sound. Decorative gilt-on-black endpapers intact with some edge fading. Complete with Vassos' 13 black-and-white plates. Vassos, later celebrated as a leading industrial designer, brought a sharp modernist and Deco sensibility to his book illustrations, well reflected here. A worn and shabby copy but complete and sound. Fair to Good only. ; Signed by Illustrator.