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	AUBOYER, JEANNINE [INTRODUCTION] Rarities of the Musee Guimet The Asia Society. 1975, First Edition in Paper. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 124-page catalogue for an exhibition held at the Asia House Gallery in New York, and later at the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City MO and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco CA. Illustrated with 71 plates, a dozen of them in color, and thoroughly annotated. Covers all of Asia, from Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, Southeast Asia, Nepal, Tibet, and China, and a variety of media, including sculpture, paintings, frescoes, miniatures, and ivories and bronzes. Near-Fine with lightly-soiled page edges; errata page laid in. Note: The hardcover edition of this catalogue is also available. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 4136 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	AUBOYER, JEANNINE [INTRODUCTION] Rarities Of the Musee Guimee The Asia Society. 1975, First Edition. Hard Cover. 124-page catalogue for an exhibition held at the Asia House Gallery in New York, and later at the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City MO and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco CA. Illustrated with 71 plates, a dozen of them in color, and thoroughly annotated. Covers all of Asia, from Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, Southeast Asia, Nepal, Tibet, and China, and a variety of media, including sculpture, paintings, frescoes, miniatures, and ivories and bronzes. Near-Fine binding with light wear to corners in near-Fine dust jacket with light wear to corners. Note: The softcover edition of this catalogue is also available. Near-Fine/Near-Fine. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 4137 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	YING-BIN, CAO Cao Ying-Bin: My Battles: Always Win Aura Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Card. 56-page catalogue. Lots of soldier-images, but the paintings and even the constructions are not particularly military-in fact, they're rather dreamy. Brief biography and exhibition list with photograph of the artist. Fine on card. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 3791 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HIROMIYOSHII [CURATOR] After the Reality Deitch Projects. 2006, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. Curated by Hiromiyoshii, this show features the work of seven artists in a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, Polaroid, and photographic and graphic print. Highly colorful and graphic work; perhaps a truthful snapshot of Asian art right now. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 1414 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DURSAM, BRIAN A. Clay and Brush: The Ceramic Art of China Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. 2007, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 141-page catalogue for an exhibition held June 9-August 26, 2007, of the Museum's extensive collection of Chinese ceramics. Fine historical essay by Brian A. Dursum, and 194 well-captioned color plates, sorted by pottery, stoneware, and porcelain. The highly relevant and useful resource material includes a selected bibliography, chronology, map of kiln sites, and two pages of marks and seals illustrated with color thumbnails. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2597 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	EGAMI, NAMIO, JIRO SUGIYAMA, TOH SUGIMURA [ESSAYS] The Exhibition of Treasures of Syrian Antiquity The Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery. 1977, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Some text and captions in English; otherwise, much of the information contained in this comprehensive catalogue is in Japanese (laid in are helpful essays by the contributors, in English). The many black and white plates, however, tell the story very well. I'd have liked to see a little brochure documenting the responses of visitors to the Exhibition. Near-Fine in wraps with light wear to edges and corners and rubbing to rear (white) cover. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3870] Book number: 1852 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ERICKSON, BRITTA [CURATOR] On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West Cantor Center for Visual Arts. 2005, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. 170-page exhibition catalogue with good text, artists' exhibition lists, bibliography, a welcome index and list of Chinese names and terms, and cool appendices: Bat Project History (Huang Yong Ping), An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy [abridged] (Xu Bing), and Will: A Silent Movie (Zhou Tiehai). Many, many plates, in color as appropriate. Fine in stiff wraps with endpapers fixed to the binding. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3816 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ESKENAZI, GIUSEPPE Song Ceramics from the Hans Popper Collection Eskenazi Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Hard Cover. 128-page catalogue for an exhibition held November 3-26, 2005, featuring 47 works from Popper's exquisite collection. Includes full-page plates of all 47 objects and full documentation of them, plus smaller images of the bottoms of the pots, a map of the Song kilns, and a bibliography. Gorgeous collection, gorgeous book. Fine in boards, lacking the dust jacket. Fine/Lacking the Dust Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 4127 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HARAGUCHI, NORIYUKI Noriyuki Haraguchi: Work 1981-1986 Akira Ikeda Gallery. 1986, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. 56-page catalogue for an exhibition held August 4-30, 1986, one of 1000 copies printed, showing the range of media the artist used during this period: massive sculptures in wood and metal, pastels on board and paper, drawings, rubber, and so on. Images in black and white, giving the overall work a more portentous feel than it may have on-site. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 1417 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VAN HORN, ELIZABETH H. [INTRODUCTION] Contemporary South West Asian-North African Graphics University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton. 1969, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue from a loan exhibition, with 22 black and white plates showing prints, lithographs, woodcuts, and other graphics from Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Turkey. We could use such a show now. The work, as various as it is, is fascinating. Very Good++ condition with some rubbing, soil and light wear. Very Good++/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2927 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HSU, TISHAN Tishan Hsu: Drawings Paintings and Sculpture Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery. 1987, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 48-page catalogue, one of 2200 issued, for an exhibition held November 22-December 23, 1987, curated by Elain A. King. 14 color plates and 2 black and white plates illlustrate the work, which is mixed-media, sculptural, abstract, and conceptual, all at once. Very Good++ condition with some scraping to spine fold, bump to spine head, light war to edges. Very Good++/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2925 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DUCK-HYUN, CHO Cho Duck-Hyun: Genealogy: On My Father Kukje Gallery. 1996, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 70-page catalogue for an exhibition held September 11-25, 1996. All plates in color (where there was color--what he's done with wedding portraits is especially interesting). Fascinating look at the artist's approach to "genealogy": particularly stunning is an installation in which infant photographs are placed in paper boxes lined with fabric and lit from above, so that there are day- and night-time versions. In another take on the same installation, the boxes are standing up and lit from in front, and there is a live baby boy standing amidst them. Pow. Near-Fine in folded wraps as issued: the colophon (last) page is creased. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 1848 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	IWAMOTO, RALPH Ralph Iwamoto: Work from the 50s David Findlay, Jr. 2004, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 8-page catalogue for an exhibition held September 1023, 2004, with 3 color plates and color cover, essay by Jeffrey Wechsler, Curator at the Zimmerti Art Museum at Rutgers. From Iwamoto's early Japoniste-Cubiste series, which later became a full-blown commitment to abstraction. The colors are lovely--Matisse with a twist and an Asian-Pacific flavor. Fine condition in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1204] Book number: 2926 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	WOU-KI, ZAO Zao Wou-Ki: Paper + China Marlborough Gallery. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 56-page catalogue with more than 30 works pictured in color: India ink on paper, painted china, and seriagraphs--all quite different, yet clearly by the same hand. Detailed chronology and list of exhibitions. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1548] Book number: 3629 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KISHIO, SUGA Suga Kishio: Stance and Selected Writings of Suga Kishio Yokahama Museum of Art. 1999, First Edition. Wraps in Sleeve. Two volumes in a corrugated paper sleeve: "Stance" features a dozen of Kishio's powerful constructions, which appear to be made at least partly of found materials, wood, glass, stone, metal in photographs plus sketches and plans (96 pages, with color plates); "Selected Writings" consists of just that, with all text in Japanese and a few black and white illustrations. Both volumes are in Fine condition in wraps; the sleeve has a few tiny dents and rubs. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63 \| £UK 57.5 \| JP¥ 8169] Book number: 3818 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KRISHNADASA, RAI Mughal Miniatures Lalit Kala Akademi. 1955, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Oversize. Text and notes by Krishnadasa, founder-curator of Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras; introduction by Humayun Kabir. First in the Lalit Kala series of Indian art. 10 beautiful color plates tipped in (first plate detached). Light wear to spine fold and ends; corners bent, top front corner chipped. Inside in Fine condition. Very Good+/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 2225 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LIU, MAX CHIWAI The Art of Read Lee Sun Yet-Sen Cultural Foundation. 1973, First Edition. Cardboard with Card Wraps. 74-page monograph, text primarily in English, with 11 tipped-in color plates, and many more in black and white showing the artist's versatility in pencil, watercolor, and oil. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist to the first free endpaper. Paper-covered card boards in near-Fine condition; paper dust jacket (mylar-protected) is worn to edges and corners. Near-Fine/Very Good. Signed by Artist. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4300] Book number: 2929 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LIUMING, MA Ma Liuming Performance: Chosen Images Aura Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 50-page catalogue with black and white stills from various performances in Munich, Basel, Geneva, and Nagano and color plates of his "Baby" series and another painting series. The performances consist primarily of a nude Ma Liuming on a bed, sometimes alone, sometimes with other people in the frame. One of the more interesting Chinese performance artists to emerge in the late 90s. Fine with light shelf rubbing in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 3789 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MAEDA, JOSAKU Josaku Maeda: Exhibition Tokyo Gallery. 1963, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. Essay by Yoshiaki Tono, "The Bug Inside Josaku Maeda". The images, all in color here, are decidedly organic, or embryonic, and yet not. The catalogue is beautifully produced on opaque paper with what appears to be hand-made endpapers, so that even turning the pages is an experience. Near-Fine condition with lightly soiled rear cover and crease to the rear endpaper. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 3793 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MATICS, K.I. A History of Wat Phra Chetupon and Its Buddha Images The Siam Society. 1979, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 36 black & white illustrations, plus color cover and frontispiece, and informed text. Very Good+ in wraps. Very Good+/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2174 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MERKEL, JAYNE [ESSAY] The Fifth Moon Group Taft Museum. 1971, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 8-page catalogue for an exhibition held November 1-December 5, 1971. Further evidence that 1971 was a wonderful art year. The Group includes Ting-Shih Chen, Chung-Ray Fong, Chi-Chung Hu, Hung Hsien, and Kuo-Sung Liu, all Chinese painters on a mission to bring a contemporary eye to their ancient painting tradition. Illustrated with six black and white plates and photographs of the artists, plus brief biographies and exhibition histories. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 3641 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Aditi: The Living arts of India Smithsonian Institution. 1985, First Edition. Hard Cover. Catalogue produced for the Festival of India Exhibition. 280 pp, chronology, index, many color and b & w illustrations. Near-fine hardcover binding in VG+ jacket with minor edgewear, sticker to rear cover. Near-Fine/Very Good++. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2101 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Exhilaration Aura Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. Neat little catalogue (about 50 pages) from a group exhibition which featured an astonishing variety of work, from photographs of nudes (including classical "reenactments") to Becher-like industrial images, to Liu Ming's surrealistic urban images. Plates in color, as appropriate. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3814 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Poupees Japonaises (Dolls of Japan) Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1934, First Edition. Paper in Paper. A particularly interesting little catalogue published for the International Doll Exposition held in Antwerp in November of 1934. 54 pages, with text in French and English, illustrated with 33 black and white images plus lovely color frontispiece protected by handmade rice-paper tissue. In Good+ condition in paper covers, with some soiling to what might have been a white ground originally, and moderate wear to edges and corners; inside, in Fine condition. Good+/Good+. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 4155 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	OJEDA, OSCAR RIERA [EDITOR] Whanki Museum Rockport Publishers. 1999, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. One volume in the publisher's Single Building Series: Process of an Architectural Work, 1999). Beautifully-produced monograph with plans, foldouts, many color plates, everything you'd want to know about a single building and how it was built. The Museum, built in 1992, houses the work of Kim Whanki, a pioneering Korean modern artist. Fine in stiff folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 1424 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.

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	AUBOYER, JEANNINE [INTRODUCTION] Rarities of the Musee Guimet The Asia Society. 1975, First Edition in Paper. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 124-page catalogue for an exhibition held at the Asia House Gallery in New York, and later at the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City MO and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco CA. Illustrated with 71 plates, a dozen of them in color, and thoroughly annotated. Covers all of Asia, from Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, Southeast Asia, Nepal, Tibet, and China, and a variety of media, including sculpture, paintings, frescoes, miniatures, and ivories and bronzes. Near-Fine with lightly-soiled page edges; errata page laid in. Note: The hardcover edition of this catalogue is also available. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 4136 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	AUBOYER, JEANNINE [INTRODUCTION] Rarities Of the Musee Guimee The Asia Society. 1975, First Edition. Hard Cover. 124-page catalogue for an exhibition held at the Asia House Gallery in New York, and later at the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City MO and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco CA. Illustrated with 71 plates, a dozen of them in color, and thoroughly annotated. Covers all of Asia, from Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, Southeast Asia, Nepal, Tibet, and China, and a variety of media, including sculpture, paintings, frescoes, miniatures, and ivories and bronzes. Near-Fine binding with light wear to corners in near-Fine dust jacket with light wear to corners. Note: The softcover edition of this catalogue is also available. Near-Fine/Near-Fine. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 4137 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	YING-BIN, CAO Cao Ying-Bin: My Battles: Always Win Aura Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Card. 56-page catalogue. Lots of soldier-images, but the paintings and even the constructions are not particularly military-in fact, they're rather dreamy. Brief biography and exhibition list with photograph of the artist. Fine on card. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 3791 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HIROMIYOSHII [CURATOR] After the Reality Deitch Projects. 2006, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. Curated by Hiromiyoshii, this show features the work of seven artists in a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, Polaroid, and photographic and graphic print. Highly colorful and graphic work; perhaps a truthful snapshot of Asian art right now. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 1414 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DURSAM, BRIAN A. Clay and Brush: The Ceramic Art of China Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. 2007, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 141-page catalogue for an exhibition held June 9-August 26, 2007, of the Museum's extensive collection of Chinese ceramics. Fine historical essay by Brian A. Dursum, and 194 well-captioned color plates, sorted by pottery, stoneware, and porcelain. The highly relevant and useful resource material includes a selected bibliography, chronology, map of kiln sites, and two pages of marks and seals illustrated with color thumbnails. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2597 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	EGAMI, NAMIO, JIRO SUGIYAMA, TOH SUGIMURA [ESSAYS] The Exhibition of Treasures of Syrian Antiquity The Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery. 1977, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Some text and captions in English; otherwise, much of the information contained in this comprehensive catalogue is in Japanese (laid in are helpful essays by the contributors, in English). The many black and white plates, however, tell the story very well. I'd have liked to see a little brochure documenting the responses of visitors to the Exhibition. Near-Fine in wraps with light wear to edges and corners and rubbing to rear (white) cover. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3870] Book number: 1852 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ERICKSON, BRITTA [CURATOR] On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West Cantor Center for Visual Arts. 2005, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. 170-page exhibition catalogue with good text, artists' exhibition lists, bibliography, a welcome index and list of Chinese names and terms, and cool appendices: Bat Project History (Huang Yong Ping), An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy [abridged] (Xu Bing), and Will: A Silent Movie (Zhou Tiehai). Many, many plates, in color as appropriate. Fine in stiff wraps with endpapers fixed to the binding. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3816 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ESKENAZI, GIUSEPPE Song Ceramics from the Hans Popper Collection Eskenazi Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Hard Cover. 128-page catalogue for an exhibition held November 3-26, 2005, featuring 47 works from Popper's exquisite collection. Includes full-page plates of all 47 objects and full documentation of them, plus smaller images of the bottoms of the pots, a map of the Song kilns, and a bibliography. Gorgeous collection, gorgeous book. Fine in boards, lacking the dust jacket. Fine/Lacking the Dust Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 4127 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HARAGUCHI, NORIYUKI Noriyuki Haraguchi: Work 1981-1986 Akira Ikeda Gallery. 1986, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. 56-page catalogue for an exhibition held August 4-30, 1986, one of 1000 copies printed, showing the range of media the artist used during this period: massive sculptures in wood and metal, pastels on board and paper, drawings, rubber, and so on. Images in black and white, giving the overall work a more portentous feel than it may have on-site. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 1417 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VAN HORN, ELIZABETH H. [INTRODUCTION] Contemporary South West Asian-North African Graphics University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton. 1969, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue from a loan exhibition, with 22 black and white plates showing prints, lithographs, woodcuts, and other graphics from Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Turkey. We could use such a show now. The work, as various as it is, is fascinating. Very Good++ condition with some rubbing, soil and light wear. Very Good++/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2927 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HSU, TISHAN Tishan Hsu: Drawings Paintings and Sculpture Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery. 1987, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 48-page catalogue, one of 2200 issued, for an exhibition held November 22-December 23, 1987, curated by Elain A. King. 14 color plates and 2 black and white plates illlustrate the work, which is mixed-media, sculptural, abstract, and conceptual, all at once. Very Good++ condition with some scraping to spine fold, bump to spine head, light war to edges. Very Good++/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2925 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DUCK-HYUN, CHO Cho Duck-Hyun: Genealogy: On My Father Kukje Gallery. 1996, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 70-page catalogue for an exhibition held September 11-25, 1996. All plates in color (where there was color--what he's done with wedding portraits is especially interesting). Fascinating look at the artist's approach to "genealogy": particularly stunning is an installation in which infant photographs are placed in paper boxes lined with fabric and lit from above, so that there are day- and night-time versions. In another take on the same installation, the boxes are standing up and lit from in front, and there is a live baby boy standing amidst them. Pow. Near-Fine in folded wraps as issued: the colophon (last) page is creased. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 1848 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	IWAMOTO, RALPH Ralph Iwamoto: Work from the 50s David Findlay, Jr. 2004, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 8-page catalogue for an exhibition held September 1023, 2004, with 3 color plates and color cover, essay by Jeffrey Wechsler, Curator at the Zimmerti Art Museum at Rutgers. From Iwamoto's early Japoniste-Cubiste series, which later became a full-blown commitment to abstraction. The colors are lovely--Matisse with a twist and an Asian-Pacific flavor. Fine condition in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1204] Book number: 2926 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	WOU-KI, ZAO Zao Wou-Ki: Paper + China Marlborough Gallery. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 56-page catalogue with more than 30 works pictured in color: India ink on paper, painted china, and seriagraphs--all quite different, yet clearly by the same hand. Detailed chronology and list of exhibitions. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1548] Book number: 3629 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KISHIO, SUGA Suga Kishio: Stance and Selected Writings of Suga Kishio Yokahama Museum of Art. 1999, First Edition. Wraps in Sleeve. Two volumes in a corrugated paper sleeve: "Stance" features a dozen of Kishio's powerful constructions, which appear to be made at least partly of found materials, wood, glass, stone, metal in photographs plus sketches and plans (96 pages, with color plates); "Selected Writings" consists of just that, with all text in Japanese and a few black and white illustrations. Both volumes are in Fine condition in wraps; the sleeve has a few tiny dents and rubs. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63 \| £UK 57.5 \| JP¥ 8169] Book number: 3818 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KRISHNADASA, RAI Mughal Miniatures Lalit Kala Akademi. 1955, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Oversize. Text and notes by Krishnadasa, founder-curator of Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras; introduction by Humayun Kabir. First in the Lalit Kala series of Indian art. 10 beautiful color plates tipped in (first plate detached). Light wear to spine fold and ends; corners bent, top front corner chipped. Inside in Fine condition. Very Good+/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 2225 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LIU, MAX CHIWAI The Art of Read Lee Sun Yet-Sen Cultural Foundation. 1973, First Edition. Cardboard with Card Wraps. 74-page monograph, text primarily in English, with 11 tipped-in color plates, and many more in black and white showing the artist's versatility in pencil, watercolor, and oil. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist to the first free endpaper. Paper-covered card boards in near-Fine condition; paper dust jacket (mylar-protected) is worn to edges and corners. Near-Fine/Very Good. Signed by Artist. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4300] Book number: 2929 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LIUMING, MA Ma Liuming Performance: Chosen Images Aura Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 50-page catalogue with black and white stills from various performances in Munich, Basel, Geneva, and Nagano and color plates of his "Baby" series and another painting series. The performances consist primarily of a nude Ma Liuming on a bed, sometimes alone, sometimes with other people in the frame. One of the more interesting Chinese performance artists to emerge in the late 90s. Fine with light shelf rubbing in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 3789 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MAEDA, JOSAKU Josaku Maeda: Exhibition Tokyo Gallery. 1963, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. Essay by Yoshiaki Tono, "The Bug Inside Josaku Maeda". The images, all in color here, are decidedly organic, or embryonic, and yet not. The catalogue is beautifully produced on opaque paper with what appears to be hand-made endpapers, so that even turning the pages is an experience. Near-Fine condition with lightly soiled rear cover and crease to the rear endpaper. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 3793 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MATICS, K.I. A History of Wat Phra Chetupon and Its Buddha Images The Siam Society. 1979, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 36 black & white illustrations, plus color cover and frontispiece, and informed text. Very Good+ in wraps. Very Good+/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2174 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MERKEL, JAYNE [ESSAY] The Fifth Moon Group Taft Museum. 1971, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 8-page catalogue for an exhibition held November 1-December 5, 1971. Further evidence that 1971 was a wonderful art year. The Group includes Ting-Shih Chen, Chung-Ray Fong, Chi-Chung Hu, Hung Hsien, and Kuo-Sung Liu, all Chinese painters on a mission to bring a contemporary eye to their ancient painting tradition. Illustrated with six black and white plates and photographs of the artists, plus brief biographies and exhibition histories. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 3641 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Aditi: The Living arts of India Smithsonian Institution. 1985, First Edition. Hard Cover. Catalogue produced for the Festival of India Exhibition. 280 pp, chronology, index, many color and b & w illustrations. Near-fine hardcover binding in VG+ jacket with minor edgewear, sticker to rear cover. Near-Fine/Very Good++. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 2101 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Exhilaration Aura Gallery. 2005, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. Neat little catalogue (about 50 pages) from a group exhibition which featured an astonishing variety of work, from photographs of nudes (including classical "reenactments") to Becher-like industrial images, to Liu Ming's surrealistic urban images. Plates in color, as appropriate. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 3814 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Poupees Japonaises (Dolls of Japan) Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1934, First Edition. Paper in Paper. A particularly interesting little catalogue published for the International Doll Exposition held in Antwerp in November of 1934. 54 pages, with text in French and English, illustrated with 33 black and white images plus lovely color frontispiece protected by handmade rice-paper tissue. In Good+ condition in paper covers, with some soiling to what might have been a white ground originally, and moderate wear to edges and corners; inside, in Fine condition. Good+/Good+. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 4155 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	OJEDA, OSCAR RIERA [EDITOR] Whanki Museum Rockport Publishers. 1999, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. One volume in the publisher's Single Building Series: Process of an Architectural Work, 1999). Beautifully-produced monograph with plans, foldouts, many color plates, everything you'd want to know about a single building and how it was built. The Museum, built in 1992, houses the work of Kim Whanki, a pioneering Korean modern artist. Fine in stiff folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 1424 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.