vassos ruth (25 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Vassos, John (illustrator). Quarto. 52pp. Burgundy cloth with black lettering. Jacket, now in mylar, has small losses to spine top and bottom with tape marks and a few closed tears. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. Period art deco gray scale illustrations by industrial designer John Vassos.

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.

Hardcover. John Vassos (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lovely copy of this science-fiction novella by Ruth Vassos illustrated by husband and industrial designer John Vassos. A different edition of this in blue cloth was issued with a dustjacket, but it is unclear if this version, likewise published in 1930, ever had one. 7.75" x 10.25" hardcover book in red cloth with gilt decoration/titling to front and spine. Unpaginated with black and white illustrations, printed in the "Knudsen Process", evidently a very fine-screened half-tone lithograph. Book, now in protective mylar jacket, from the collection of a tobacco smoker with attendant, mild tanning to spine and a faint smoky aroma within. Pages are however quite bright and crisp, illustrations vivid and attractive. Binding square, sound and firm. Boards still quite fresh with sharp corners and only hints of wear to the edges and corners. Very good+.

hardcover. Vassos (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. John Vassos (illustrator). 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.

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. Vassos (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. Illustrated by John Vassos (illustrator). 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.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. John Vassos (illustrator). First Edition. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY BOTH RUTH VASSOS (WHO WROTE THE TEXT) AND JOHN VASSOS (WHO CONTRIBUTED THE "CREATIONS") on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1929 1st edition of this triumph of Art Deco book design. Crisp and VG in its navy-blue cloth, with wonderful curved, Decoish silver design along the panels. A touch of scuffing at the rear panel, very light wear to the spine ends. Tall quarto, beautifully, hauntingly illustrated along the rectos by the great John Vassos (1898-1985). Signed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. John Vassos (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. 4to. pp. [95]. 23 full-page illus. original cloth.

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 +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good -. John Vassos (illustrator). 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.

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'.".

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Quarto (26.5cm); dark blue-gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [96]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some faint spotting to upper front cover, with early owner's color pictorial bookplate to front pastedown; contents fresh; Very Good+. In the original dustjacket, shelfworn, dust-soiled, and a lightly toned, with some faint foxing, a few tiny nicks, small tears, and surface abrasions; Very Good. "Peripherally related to utopian writing, this is a prophecy of the future of humanity forced to live beneath the earth until they break free, through space flight, to another and yet unknown new earth where "It will be our inestimable privilege to begin again and fashion the pattern of our lives more to our liking" (LEWIS, p.195). BLEILER (1972 ed.), p.273; NEGLEY 1130; SARGENT 1930. 88327.

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.