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New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. [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…
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ULTIMO. AN IMAGINATIVE NARRATION OF LIFE UNDER THE EARTH with Projections by John Vassos and the text by Ruth Vassos.
by Vassos, Ruth, text by. Projections by John Vassos
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1930. hardcover. near Fine. Vassos, John. Quarto, blue cloth covers with black titles and design. Unpaginated. 22 illustrations. Short tear on one leaf in margin does not affect text or illustration. Former owner name on front free endpaper. "John Vassos, artist, and industrial designer, studied under John Singer Sargent, George Bridgeman, and John Sloan. His first industrial design was a lotion bottle that became popular as a hip flask during Prohibition. He contributed his futuristic designs to RCA for 40 years, including a see-thru Lucite television cabinet for the 1939 World's Fair in Chicago. He illustrated several books, including several adaptations of Oscar Wilde titles. Protected in a clear mylar cover. Art Deco, Futurism. 122615B
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- Publisher E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1930
- Keywords Art Deco, Futurism, Modernism
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Ultimo; an imaginative narration of life under the earth
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