Vassos, John; Text by Ruth Vassos

Contempo: This American Tempo (in a dust jacket)

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1929. John Vassos. First edition. Hardcover. [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. Very good + / Very good -. Item #63985

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.

Price: $500.00