First published in 1938, Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Guy Loring was a textbook on lettering examples and how to do them.  On one of the pages was found a solid black (counterless) Art Deco sans serif design that in its many variations so typified the era.

The example shown in that book served as the model for Postmodern Moderne JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.