Ruth vassos (26 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, trade issue with navy cloth lettered in silver. Very Good, silver stamping rubbed, light wear, rear hinge starting, lacking dust jacket.

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. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Contempo' is a striking exploration of the pulse of the late 1920s, captured through the collaborative vision of illustrator John Vassos and writer Ruth Vassos. As a seminal work of Art Deco illustration and social commentary, it offers a rhythmic and stylized interpretation of the modern American landscape. Through a series of evocative plates and accompanying prose, the work examines the various forces shaping contemporary life, from the influence of 'The Radio' and 'The Tabloid' to the overarching impacts of 'Advertising,' 'Science,' 'Religion,' and 'War.'John Vassos's bold, geometric illustrations provide a visual shorthand for the machine age, while the text provides a psychological depth that questions the rapid pace of societal progress. This work serves as both an aesthetic triumph of the Art Deco movement and a poignant critique of the alienation and excitement inherent in urban modernity. 'Contempo' remains a significant cultural document, offering readers a unique window into the anxieties and aspirations of an era on the brink of profound change. It is an essential volume for those interested in graphic arts, the history of design, and the social evolution of the early twentieth century.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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. [92pp] Quarto [29 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with decorative black ink stamped titles and designs on the spine and front cover. Very good. The extremities are rubbed. There is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, and the pages are age-toned. 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: This American Tempo, Vassos portrays the dehumanizing effects of the machine age. John Vassos (illustrator).…

hardcover. First. Text by Ruth Vassos. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 105 pages, 4to, gilt-stamped red cloth with a blue cloth spine, a bit rubbed and dust-soiled; previous owners bookplate. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1935. First edition. Very good. Vassos (illustrator).

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).…

Zustand: Good. 4to Original wrappers. 56 pp. + inserts. Elaborate graphic design and production throughout. Very good.Includes:A New Approach To Fashion Photography.Book-Plates and Trade-Marks Designed by A. Szoeke.Patterns with Pictures by Thurman Rotan!These Packages by Roy Sheldon. Work by Gustav Jensen, Egmont Arens, Joseph Sinel, Walter Dorwin Teague, Lucian Bernhard, Ruth Bernhard, Etc.White On BlackAnd Now: Good Design for the Gasoline Pump. Work by Joseph Sinel.Tractors From The AirTypography's New Dimension by Frederic Dannay"Eyes" . . . A Photograph by Frederick BradleyFour Views of the Hattie Carnegie Shop. Interior Design by Howe and Lescaze, Architects. Gorgeous.Cigar Boxes from Germany by J. A. Healey.Gallery by Burford Lorimer. Bert Chambers, Arthur Gerlach, Byron Muser, and Helen Dryden Short illustrated biographies with facsimile signatures.Modern Displays that Dramatize the Product. Work by Kay Of Austria.Full-page drawing by Raymond Bret-Koch.Provenance : Estate of CCAC/CCA professor Steve Reoutt, who passed away May 14, 2008. He was born in 1938 in Shanghai to Russian parents. He came to the United States when he was just 12 years old. He went on to co-found the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, including serving a nine-year board position as design historian. In 2001 Reoutt received the AIGA Fellowship award for "personal and professional contributions to raising the standards of excellence within our design community.".…

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Creations by John Vassos, Text by Ruth Vassos. Full page monochrome plates. Unpaginated. Tall 4to, blue cloth, art deco design stamped in silver; bookplate inside front cover, minor wear to spine ends. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Edition. A near fine copy. 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. 4to. pp. [95]. 23 full-page illus. original cloth.

Zustand: Bon. In-8 (26,5 x 20 cm.), 50 ff. non chiffrées, couverture cartonnée. Edition originale. Un des 115 exemplaires numérotés et signés. Edition illustrée de 22 planches hors-texte par John Vassos. John Vassos est une figure de l'Art Déco américain dont il fut un précurseur. Dans une ambiance mêlée de Bauhaus et d'expressionisme allemand, cette nouvelle de science-fiction décrit la vie dans l'espace. Quelques rousseurs, couverture un peu usée, infime enfoncement au dos.[First edition. Hardcover. One of 115 numbered and signed copies. Edition illustrated with 22 plates outside the text by John Vassos. John Vassos is a figure of American Art Deco, of which he was a precursor. In an atmosphere mixed with Bauhaus and German expressionism, this science fiction short story describes life in space. Some foxing, cover a little worn, tiny dent on the spine.] Langue : Français.…

Boards. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY BOTH RUTH VASSOS (WHO WROTE THE TEXT) AND JOHN VASSOS (WHO CONTRIBUTED THE ILLUSTRATIONS) on the front free endpaper. A tight copy to boot of the 1935 1st edition of this astounding recording of seemingly all "problems that confront Western civilization today" (the 1930s), rendered under the keen eye of John Vassos. A touch of light spotting and streaking at the panels, internally very sharp, with no writing or markings to speak of. Tall quarto, beautifully, hauntingly illustrated along the rectos by the great John Vassos (1898-1985). Signed.…

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).…

Zustand: Very Good -. First Edition. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1930. First Trade Edition. Quarto (26cm); unpaginated. Boards bound in blue cloth with black stamping to front panel and spine. Lacks dust jacket. Twenty-one full-page illustrations. Boards bumped. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned; first free endsheet shows smudging. Former owner's bookplate at first fixed endsheet. Very Good minus. Ultimo imagines a future in which earth has become so inhospitable to humans that they must retreat beneath the surface of the earth. In this subterranean civilization, social conventions like marriage become foreign and scientific progress accelerates. Over time, inhabitants' curiosity grows and a group develops a spaceship-like device that will deliver passengers to the surface of the earth. Text accompanied by striking art deco- and cubist-style illustrations by the author's husband, industrial designer John Vassos. Kessler, Daring to Dream p273. …

23 monochrome plates by John Vassos. Text by Ruth Vassos. First edition. 4to., original blue and black cloth with 20s Deco design, slight rubbing, small mark on upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. New York, E.P. Dutton. A commentary on twentieth century America with a remarkable awareness of developing trends including Tabloids, Commercialism, Suburbia, Traffic the Department Store, Psychologia, Modern Art. Movies, Religion, The Beach &c. Each subject is accompanied by a remarkable futuristic illustration by the important deco artist and industrial designer John Vassos.…

NY 1935. 12 x 8 1/2", two-tone cloth, 105pp, cover darkned, slight staining at top of covers, minor cover soil, else good. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES, THIS ONE SIGNED BY JOHN VASSOS WHO HAS ILLUSTRATED THIS VLOUME. ALSO NICE A.L.S. FROM VASSOS PRESENT ".I have 'retired'.".

An imaginative narration of life under the earth with projections by John Vassos and the text by Ruth Vassos. New-York, Inc., 1930, reliure toilée rouge, décor de bandes estampées dorées, et de motifs géométriques blancs et noirs, titre estampé doré, dos titré en long, non paginé. Ouvrage poétique. Le texte, un court paragraphe disposé en milieu de page, fait face à l'illustration en noir tout en courbes, scandées de formes pointues, évoquant des paysages lunaires et fantastiques. La belle reliure d'origine est très bien conservée, avec ces motifs typiques de la géométrisation "Années 30". Très célèbre en son temps, John Vassos (1898-1985) est un dessinateur d'origine grecque qui fit toute sa carrière aux États-Unis. L'étonnant roman du couple Vassos n'a jamais été repris en volume, mais a été remarqué par les grands journaux américains de l'époque. Ce roman a été acquis par la BNF en 2004. Dos insolé. Livre. . Illustrateur : VASSOS (John). (illustrator). …

Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Trade Edition. First edition, trade issue with plain binding. Unpaginated. Blue cloth with black lettering. Fine in Near Fine original dust jacket, spine slightly sunned and rubbed along edges. An attractive, very clean copy. Dystopian phobia-inspired science-fiction by distinguished industrial designer John Vassos about human inhabitation of the inner earth, outer space, and the sky in the face of environmental collapse.…