ultimo de vassos (16 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Vassos, John Ilustrador. 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. Condición: Very Good+. Vassos, John Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in very good + condition with slightest wear to cover edges. Dust jacket in very good minus condition some minor rubbing and light soiling with 3 small enclosed tears, tiny chip 1 corner bottom and residue from small old label and1 small penned name and 4 numbers both on back flap. Science-fiction novella of a dystopian futurism, on a frozen Earth whose inhabitants have drilled underground to survive, their discontent, and a plan to escape. illustrated with fantastic art deco gray scale drawings, by illustrator and husband the industrial designer John Vassos. 52 pages.

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

First edition. Tall 8vo. [52] pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations by John Vassos. Cloth binding, gilt embossed lettering and cover design, good copy. (94962).

[95] pp. Illustrated. 4to, publisher's red cloth printed in white, black and gold in (publisher's?) clear mylar wrapper. First edition. Near fine; very slight bump at one corner and wrapper chipped and a little tanned. Two publisher's flyers laid in.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, NY 1930. First Edition. 1st Printing. 92 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! With Publisher's Ultimo flyer inside. Size: 4to. A dystopian future of the earth freezing over, and planning an escape to a new planet. Fiction Modern::Science Fiction 5998L.

Hardcover. Condición: 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. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good dj. Illustrated by John Vassos Ilustrador. 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.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. John Vassos Ilustrador. Later Printing. Dystopian futurism, of a frozen Earth whose inhabitants have drilled underground to survive, their discontent, and a plan to escape; illustrated with fantastic art deco greyscale drawings, nicely printed in the 'Knudsen Process', apparently a very fine-screened half-tone lithograph. Vassos was also an important industrial designer, responsible for a popular turnstile and many TV and radio designs for RCA; he trained spies for the OSS during World War Two. Hardcover, full blue cloth, black titling & decoration. Shows light wear, neat ink name; scarce jacket rubbed and lightly chipped with a long tear to rear panel, crossing the spine & running up the front panel, with associated creasing, another short tear to upper front panel; spine tanned. Text clean; 96 pages of which 22 are b/w plates. Size: 7¾" by 10½".

Hardcover. Condición: Very good condition. First Edition. 52 unnumbered pages of text, interspersed with 22 black-and-white illustrations. Original decorative cloth binding has minor shelfwear and minor soiling, with a small stain to the rear board; protected in archival Mylar. Includes the original prospectus. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Quarto (4to). Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. John Vassos(Frontispiece Illustrator) John Vassos(Illustrator) Ilustrador. First Edition. Ultimo by Ruth Vassos (First Edition) Signed Firm copy with bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Red cloth with bold gilt stamped titles and gilt, white and black ink decorative patterns on the front cover. A futuristic vision of the end of the earth, illustrated by Art Deco painter John Vassos and with text by his wife Ruth. Signed by John Vassos on half title page. BOOK.

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.

Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.

. Illustrateur : VASSOS (John). Ilustrador. 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.

Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.