John Vassos; Ruth Vassos
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1929.

John Vassos, American artist and industrial designer, was a pioneer of the art deco style, creating shapes and designs for radio, television, computer, and broadcasting equipment for nearly four decades. Contempo is credited with launching his career as a modern artist and showcases his geometrical, cubist, and constructivist style, accompanying his wife Ruth Vassos’ textual critique of post-war American society. This copy inscribed by John Vassos to Louis Lazarus.

Destroy All Monsters; Cary Loren
New York: Primary Information, 2011.

“Facsimile edition of Destroy All Monsters Magazine including remnants of the “lost” seventh issue, which was never released. Destroy All Monsters Magazine features work by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Destroy All Monsters Magazine was edited by Cary Loren and contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from band mates Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band, the issues combine the cut and paste tactics of punk zines with a psychedelic affinity for color. Destroy All Monsters Magazine functions as a kind of manifesto, providing insight into the band through densely layered pages with movie imagery, kitsch, cartoons, delicate drawings, and counter-culture collages. While Destroy All Monsters has been the subject of recent exhibitions and partial reprints, this is the first time that all issues have been reprinted.” (publisher’s blurb)