ICON: LAS VEGAS
Edited by Jim Heimann

There’s not much to go on about this 192-page, 6 x 8 softcover book, and that’s part of
its charm. There’s not much text and the ones that are used are quite small as it makes room
for almost endless pictures of the town through the many rare brochures and
postcards mainly during the 50’s and 60’s.

This is published by Taschen, maker of wonderful and expensive art books. ‘Icon’ is a
series of stylishly designed and, for Taschen, inexpensive books simply highlighting many of
the publisher’s favorite topics. This time, Las Vegas gets the ‘Icon’ treatment.

I hope this publisher gets around to making a full blown Vegas book in the future. If you’ve
seen many of their larger books (I’m still surviving the mammoth ‘Book Of Tiki’ from over ten years ago!), you might want to stand in line to bug them for one. In the meantime,
this simple yet elegant little sucker will have to do!