Contempo, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. First edition, signed by the author. Covers are damaged by some sort of liquid, but aren't warped. Interior is in good shape. Pieces of the dust jacket left inside.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Vassos, John (illustrator). Creations by John Vassos, Text by Ruth Vassos. Full page monochrome plates. Unpaginated. Tall 4to, blue cloth, art deco design stamped in silver (lettering a bit worn; covers slightly rubbed and with several faint stains). New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929. A very good copy. With a personalized card signed by John Vassos in a shaky hand.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. JOHN VASSOS (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED BY JOHN VASSOS TO HALF-TITLE PAGE, OWNER'S SMALL GIFT CARD ATTACHED TO FFEP. Signed by Author(s).

limited edition, 1929. one of 166 copies signed by john and ruth vassos; this is number 8 of 9 presentation copies. new york: e.p. dutton & company, inc. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover. bound in silver cloth-covered boards. book condition: gentle foxing to block, bumping to head and foot of spine, nick to back board, mild shelfwear throughout. very good.

Hardcover. Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small Folio. Silver cloth boards with black spine lettering. 23 illustrations. Light rubbing to the silver cloth at the corners and spine ends, original glassine cover very chipped and almost all missing at the spine, silver endpaper, clean and unmarked throughout. Housed in the original blue cloth slipcase with silver design and lettering, lightly edge-worn and damaged at one corner. Edition limited to 166 signed copies, this is no. 84, signed by Ruth and John Vassos. Signed by Illustrator(s).

4to. Silver cloth boards with black spine lettering, slipcase. unpaginated. First edition, of which this is one of 166 numbered copies signed by both the author and the artist. Lacking the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the edges of the slipcase, else a near fine copy. Illustrations, with foreword, by John Vassos. Depictions of aspects of modern American life just before the onset of the Great Depression. Silver cloth boards with black spine lettering, slipcase.