Ruth vassos text (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Quarto, unpaged [ca. 50 pages]. In Good condition. Spine is blue with silver print. In clear plastic sleeve. Boards in blue cloth, silver print; light blemishes to front panel. Text block has chipped fore edge to first and last two leaves. Illustrated: b&w plates. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex in quarto column. 1410205. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. Quarto, unpaged. In Good minus condition. Spine is red with gold print. In clear plastic sleeve.Boards in red cloth, gold print; tattering to spine caps, light wear to corners, light shelf wear. Text block has name stamp on front pastedown, light tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w plates. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex in quarto column. 1410209. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG-. First Edition. Coffee table sized book in blue cloth spine and boards with silver lettering and ornamentation. Heavy rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Heavy bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Watermark to the spine has cleaned the lettering away. Very light rubbing along the lower edges of the boards. Previous owner's name and date on the upper corner of the free front endpaper. A handsome juxtaposition of art and language. Unpaginated. No dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929. First edition, 1929. An artist's view of the future from the American Art Deco era, with brief essays on topics accompanied by a futuristic black and white plate. Includes such topics as: electricity, advertising, the department store, the beach, tabloids, sports, religion, etc. Blue cloth lettered and with an Art Deco design in silver, 12.25 inches tall. Covers rubbed with some chipping to the silver, fraying to corners and edges, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned but clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. First edition. Quarto [31 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with decorative dark blue ink stamped titles, and dark blue ink stamped designs on the front cover. Very good. The covers are slightly rubbed and bumped. There are several very small light moisture stains on the front cover. The spine and edges of the covers are darkened. The front pastedown has a former owner's bookplate. The pages are mildly browned. John Vassos played a major role in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc., 1929. First edition, 1929. Externally worn, internally very good. A celebration of American Art Deco style, with modernistic black and white plates depicting the spirits of Electricity, Advertising, Skyscrapers, Radio, The Department Store, Commercialism, Air Conquest, Science, Modern Art, more. Blue cloth with black Art Deco lettering and design, 12.25" tall, about a hundred pages. Covers heavily worn at the edges with considerable age-toning and spotting, good hinges, sound text block, slightly age-yellowed but clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall.…

Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. First edition. Quarto [31 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with decorative silver stamped titles, and silver stamped designs on the front cover. Very good. The extremities are mildly rubbed, the cloth at the spine ends is frayed, and the underlying boards are peeking through at the bottom fore edge corners of the covers. The pages are age-toned. Illustrated by John Vassos, an artist who played a major role in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration. In Contempo: This American Tempo, Vassos portrays the dehumanizing effects of the machine age. John Vassos (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. [some wear to cloth at ends of spine, very slight bump to bottom front corner; fragile jacket is quite presentable, worn along edges and hinges, hinges split along several lengths but still holding together, about 1" paper loss from top of spine (no loss of text), tiny chip at bottom left corner of rear panel, a few little nicks along top of front panel]. (B&W plates) A memorandum from an imagined future time, in which centuries of slow-moving but cataclysmic climate change -- not global warming but rather global freezing -- have forced humans first to reconstitute their civilization far beneath the surface of the earth, and ultimately to develop "projectile cars" (rocket ships, essentially) to allow them to escape from an earth that's become "useless and dead." (The memo-writer has rejected an alternate plan to use "certain experiments in atomic detonation"(!) to shift the earth's orbit closer to the sun, and to thereby re-heat the planet.) Although primarily known for his influential work in the field of industrial design, John Vassos's credentials as a modernist artist were firmly established by the three books he published around this time; this one was preceded by "Contempo" (1929) and followed by "Phobia" (1931). The book's dedication is "To D.H.L. [D.H. Lawrence] who loved the sun"; Lawrence had died in March 1930 (the book was published in November). And don't miss the attractive black-on-silver bookplate (concealed by the front jacket flap) of one A. Eric Armstrong, on whose shelves this book once rested. Illustrated by John Vassos (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First edition. SIGNED. [92pp] Quarto [29 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with decorative silver ink stamped titles and designs on the spine and front cover. The cloth is rubbed and a bit frayed at the spine ends and the corners of the covers, and the pages are darkened. The front hinge is just a tad weak. Illustrated with twenty-three stunning works by John Vassos, an artist who played a major role in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration. In Contempo, Vassos portrays the dehumanizing effects of the machine age. Inscribed by Vassos on the half title page. John Vassos (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. SIGNED. Quarto [30.5 cm] 104pp. Folio [30.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with red cloth over boards with bold gilt stamped titles. Double title page printed in black and bold red. Boards a bit warped; some dampstaining and tapestains to boards (dampstaining primarily to rear board); pages a bit toned. The first edition was strictly limited to 2,000 copies. This copy is intimately inscribed by John Vassos to Colonel Darryl Zanuck on the front free endpaper: "Written in 1935 - / now 1944 - / One wonders. are we / going to make the same / mistakes? / To Col. Darryl Zanuck / from another soldier - / Lt. Col. John Vassos C.E. / in New York City / July 27 1944." Inscribed to the giant American film producer and studio executive Darryl Zanuck. Zanuck (1902-1979) was vice president in charge of production for Twentieth Century-Fox. The IMDb website (writer David S. Smith) refers to him as "One of the kingpins of Hollywood's studio system." He is known for his signature productions of "How Green Was My Valley," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "Twelve O'Clock High." He was also known for producing "The Longest Day" (1962), which was viewed as the definitive examination of D-Day for decades. Also highly significant, is the fact that Zanuck was responsible for the first use of dialogue in a full-length film, "The Jazz Singer." Zanuck joined the U.S. Army when he was 15 years old. He was active in World War I and World War II. John Vassos was also in the military. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps developing camouflage techniques. A unique inscription not only between two military men, but between two people with huge ties to the entertainment industry. The artist, John Vassos, was the designer of the first consumer television set for RCA, while Zanuck was considered a major studio boss of his era. First edition, inscribed association copy. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good +. Very good -. First edition. [92pp] Quarto [29 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with decorative silver ink stamped titles and designs on the spine and front cover. With minor edge wear to the spine and boards and moderate toning to the pages. In a dust jacket, with sporadic tape backing small closed and open tears along the edges and folds. Despite this, the jacket presents quite well. Illustrated with twenty-three stunning works by John Vassos, an artist who played a major role in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration. In Contempo, Vassos portrays the dehumanizing effects of the machine age. John Vassos (illustrator).…