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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Illustrated by John Vassos. Small quarto. 102pp. Leather-backed patterned papercovered boards with spine titling and topedge gilt. Attractive pictorial bookplate of former owner ("Florence Henderson") on the front pastedown, along with a brief 1929 gift inscription. Binding is edgeworn, worn through in several places, with a bit of loss at the crown and upper shoulder, hinges starting a bit but holding, about very good; interior is otherwise fine. One of 200 copies Signed by Vassos on the limitation page. John Vassos (1898-1985), Greek-American artist, was born in Romania to Greek parents; he emigrated to Boston in 1919. He studied at Boston's Fenway Art School and the Art Student's League of New York. He is noted for his art deco graphic and industrial design, including a turnstile for subway stations, cabinets for RCA first television sets, as well as his illustrations for several publications from 1927 to 1935, including a few titles by Oscar Wilde.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 102pp. Small quarto [24 cm] 1/2 black leather over gray illustrated boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Bright pink endsheets. Heavy rubbing to extremities, corners exposed, 1" loss to spine at head, toning and light wear to boards; hinges cracked (but holding), ink name on front pastedown, light spotting to endpapers, light foxing to half-title and rear flyleaf, else interior is clean and lightly toned. Includes sixteen full page illustrations from the imagination of John Vassos. This is the third Wilde work illustrated by 1930s 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.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All three Oscar's in One, each illustrated by John Vassos, the industrial genius and artist, all bound in one 4to volume by the Whitman Bennett Bindery of Brooklyn and signed by them in a crushed levant red rare art deco boards and endsheets, presentation copy by Vassos to his mentor John Pillar of Dutton, thus an association copy as well. spine relaid and new joints else very good copy. all the Vassos plates are fine. repair by Alan Grace of Surrey UK, and St. Simons Island GA.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.