vassos john illus (12 risultati)

Hardcover. Small Quarto. Hardcover. Quaterbound in black cloth with cream boards. Gilt stamped titles. 75 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. G+. Boards are speckled and toned. Otherwise interior is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Covers rubbed, with edges sun-darkened and worn; extremities frayed; pages slightly edge-browned; previous owner's notation on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). Signed by John Vassos on. . 102p. Illus. Frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. hardback book (57 pages) with black and white illustrations by John Vassos. Boards are scuffed/soiled/slightly warped - private bookplate with inscription on front endpaper - most pages have damp stain on margins edge - binding is still firm - would rate a good reading copy. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG2-Top) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. B Specials, East Wall: This hardcover is inscribed and signed by the illustrator. Nice hardcover, do to publisher's tight paper hinge, separation at the rear gutter. light wear to the edges. Black spine, gilt title. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

77 pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Armorial bookplate; same owner's large ownership signature; gold lettering on spine a little flaked with a few stray marks to the cloth; contents clean; tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Includes sixteen full page illustrations from the imagination of John Vassos. This was the third Wilde work illustrated by renowned book illustrator and industrial designer, John Vassos. This edition was limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, this is copy 165. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Moderate shelf/edge wear, spine sunned, tips through, light toning to text block edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, black cloth spine, green paper boards, pale green endpapers. 8vo. 102pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Hardcover. Extremities slightly worn; covers rubbed, with a sheen; pages slightly toned and edge-browned; otherwise very good condition in mylar cover. . Unnumbered pages. Illus.

Hardcover. Backstrip sun-faded; extremities slightly worn, with bottom corner of front cover bumped and frayed; pages slightly toned and edge-browned; previous owners name inside front cover; otherwise very good condition. . 104p. Illus. Folio.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small 4to, two toned patterned boards, tips rounded and somewhat worn.pasted in the back of the front board on a small piece of paper "For.with best wishes from John Vassos".VV9/2/2. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Illus. by John Vassos, 9.5 x 7", cloth backed pict boards, 124pp, covers well worn, extremities bumped and chipped, ink inscriptions from former owners at top of front fly, pp toned, scattered spotting; a well-used copy. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "very sincerely" AND SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, JOHN VASSOS on half-title page.

124 pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. 8vo, publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g., in dust jacket. First of this illustrated edition; No. 137 of 200 copies signed by John Vassos. Very slightest of rubbing at the extremities and corner tips; otherwise a fine copy. The dust jacket is split at the joints and the backstrip is in pieces, lacking about a 1" section, with some other small chips.

First Vassos trade edition, first printing, inscribed on the half-title by the illustrator, "To Josephine Allen, in symbolism, John Vassos", and with Allen's signature on the front pastedown. Vassos's art-deco illustrations poignantly complement Wilde's famous poem. Vassos (1898-1985) was an American industrial and graphic designer famous for designing the first commercially available television sets and many popular logos. In 1926, Vassos's design for a cover illustration for a stage production of Salomé caught the attention of the publishers E. P. Dutton, resulting in a Vassos-illustrated edition of the play published in 1927. He illustrated eight further books, of which this is the second. Octavo. Monochrome frontispiece, 15 plates by Vassos, all with tissue guards. Original blue boards, black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, front board with illustration in black and gilt, pale grey endpapers, top edge blue, fore and bottom edges uncut. With dust jacket. Spine a little cocked, top edge toned, closed tear to outer margin of pp. 35-6; jacket unclipped, nicks, chips, and short closed tears to extremities, spine sunned: a very good copy in like jacket.