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	LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART Early Prints and Drawings of California from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1955, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 44-page catalogue, although with many prints and annotations, doesn't come anywhere near capturing the sweep of the Honeyman collection. Excellent reference, and delightful glimpse of the major cities about mid-19th century. Near-fine condition with very light wear. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 6119 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1959, Limited. Wraps As Issued. One of 3000 printed in January of that year. In wraps as issued. More than 200 black & white plates, covering an astonishing range of drawings. Good condition: covers have pulled away from the spine (can be reglued easily); slight spotting to front cover. Good/Issued Without Jacket. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 2376 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	BONE, JAMES London Echoing Dutton. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: Muirhead Bone. Undated edition and printing. Drawings by the author's brother, Muirhead Bone, are marvelously evocative of a vanished London (drawn between 1901-42). Very Good++ binding slightly faded, in near-Very Good jacket with chips to spine ends, rough rear top edge. Very Good++/Near-Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 2294 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	POUSETTE-DART, RICHARD Richard Pousette-Dart, Drawing: Form is a Verb Knoedler Gallery. 2008, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 38-page catalogue for an exhibition held January 19-March 8, 2008, with an essay by Robert Hobbs and more than 20 plates, some in color, as appropriate. Fine overview of the characteristic work. Fine in folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3583 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	BATCHELOR, DAVID AND CHRISTIAN SCHLATTER [ESSAYS] Art and Language: Hostages XXV-LXXVI Galerie De Paris, Lisson Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery. 1990, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 80-page catalogue published to document the exhibition of the Hostage work in the Galerie de Paris, the Lisson Gallery, and the Marian Goodman Gallery in 1990-1991. Texts by Batchelor and Schlatter describe the process (always more important to this group than the product), and the plates include the studies as well as the finished work. As the cover notes: "We may hide behind our speech at this appalling moment." Beautifully produced, as always. This copy in Fine condition but for a little light wear in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 3351 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DAVIS, GERALD Gerald Davis: Drawings 2002-2006 Salon 94. 2006, First Edition. Boards. Issued by the Black Dragon Society, Salon 94, and John Connelly Presents (both New York galleries), with a prose piece by Jeffrey Dorchen, and about 40 illustrations, including a number of foldouts. Davis likes to draw the human body, without much regard for realism, alone or not, in sexual situations, in a style that is better than a Comfort manual and almost as good as Mad Magazine. An acquired taste. Fine in boards as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 3585 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SHEPHERD GALLERY Architectural Drawings: An Exhibition of 18th and 19th Century British and Continental... Shepherd Gallery. 1987, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Catalogue for an exhibition held October 28-November 21, 1987 in New York of "18th and 19th Century British and Continental Architectural Drawings, Topographical Watercolours and Interiors". 64 black and white plates on coated stock; an impressive collection. Color cover is Charles Robert Cockerell's "Tribute to the Architecture of Ancient Rome". Light wear to edges and spine ends. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 2522 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	GEERLINGS, GERALD K. Paris Along the Seine French Institute/Alliance Francaise and Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. 1987, First Trade. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Ill.: Gerald K. Geerlings. 160 pages of Geerlings' wonderful cityscapes, with perhaps the wonderfulest city of all as his subject. Part architecture, part drawing, and part urban history, this is a fascinating and useful resource. Fine condition in stiff wraps, slight bump to upper front corner. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 5008 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	GUTIERREZ, EMILIA Emilia Gutierrez: Habitantes De La Luz y La Sombra Gabriel Levinas. 2004, First Edition. Hard Cover. Habitantes de la luz y la sombra: dibujos y pinturas 1960-2002 (Gabriel Levinas, 2004). Very nearly a catalogue raisonnÃ© of the artist's work: 61 color plates of the paintings and as many of the drawings. Much of the work is figurative and very subtle, particularly the coloration. Chronology and other documentation included. In Fine condition in hardcover with dust jacket. Fine/Fine. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 1330 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HARRIS, JOHN, JILL LEVER, MARGARET RICHARDSON Great Drawings from the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects The Drawing Center. 1983, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. 136-page exhibition catalogue that includes the entire range of British architecture from the Renaissance to the early 1980s, fully illustrated with drawings, prints, some color images. Fine condition in stiff wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 1229 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ISAACS, JOHN Vor Der Sintflut: 27 Drawings Museum 52. 2006, Limited/Numbered. Cloth Over Boards. Limited edition signed and numbered (2 of either 44 or 94; the handwriting is difficult to decipher) to the colophon page. There may be 27 drawings, but I count 29 black and white plates here. Pages 65 to 94 are taken up with the text, which appears to consist of the author's statements. I would call this an artist's book and, if you've seen it, you might too. Fine in black cloth boards as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 1748 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	JONES, CAROLINE A. [CURATOR] Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: August Rodin to Elizabeth Murray Stanford University Museum of Art. 1988, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue for an exhibition held November 15, 1988-February 19, 1989, with excellent text by curator Jones, plus 9 color plates and others in black and white, in pencil, gouache, watercolor. A fine collection, including a Gorky self-portrait (color, front cover), an Emil Nolde head (color), Marin's Wall Street (color), a Reinhardt gouache (color), and work by David Smith, Franz Kline, Katherine Porter, Diebenkorn, Stella, Celmins, De Forest, Arneson, Grooms, Dine, Oldenbourg, and Yvonne Jacquette, among others. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 3577 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KLETT, WALTER Figure Painting Watson Guptill. 1948, First Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: Walter Klett. Yes, the instruction is first-rate and the photographs helpful, but you're gonna wanna have Klett's black and white portraits, mostly of female dancers: Bambi Lynn, for heaven's sake, and Vera Zorina, Gladys Swarthout, and Alicia Markova! About Very Good hardcover binding with minor wear to spine ends and corners; lacking the dust jacket. About Very Good/Lacking the Dust Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 2203 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KOSTABI, MARK Upheaval Pelham Press and Mark Kostabi. 1985, First Edition Limited. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Nearly 90 plates, 16 of them in color, showing Kostabi's characteristic work, definitely an acquired taste. One of 2000 copies. Inscribed, dated, and signed by Kostabi to the title page. Fine condition in wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. Signed by Artist. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 1695 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	[LEWTY, SIMON] Simon Lewty: Towards Drawing Art First Gallery. 1998, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. 28-page exhibition catalogue; black and white plates. The title hints at and the plates bear out Lewty's use of text, the act of moving a pencil on a medium, "towards" drawing but not quite getting there yet. Light soiled. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 2068 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MCEVILLEY, THOMAS [ESSAY] Austrian Drawings: Gunter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. 1986, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 24-page catalogue for an exhibition held January 12-February 23, 1986, with a reprint of a Thomas McEvilley essay from ArtForum, and 17 black and white plates of these contemporary but decidely medieval drawings. Near-Fine with minor ink notation to top corner of title page. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3584 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	GIBSON, MICHAEL AND JEAN CLAIR Kostabi Self-published. 1981, First Edition Limited. Stiff Card Wraps. Artists Book, Self-published, Whittier CA, 1981, in a limited edition printed at Kinko's. Early work of the Great Kostabi (self-billed), 39 of the images, which look-at first glance-like those never-lifted-the-pencil-from-the-page drawings. Humorous. Fine stiff wraps as issued with very faint wear. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1066 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Fantasy and Reality: Drawings Fromt he Sunny Crawford Von Bulow Collection Pierpont Morgan Library. 1995, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 110 page catalogue to accompany what must have been a stunning exhibit. Fortunately, the catalogue is beautifully produced, as is usual with the Morgan, with most plates in color and enough bibliographic and scholarly information to sate the scholar. In Fine condition in folded card wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 2665 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	REGO, PAULA Celestina's House Abbot Hall Art Gallery. 2001, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 84-page catalogue for an exhibition held in the UK in 2001 and at the Yale Center for British Art in 2002. Nearly all color plates (except for some drawings) of the work, which is Hogarth-ish, narrative, portraiture verging on caricature, and altogether absorbing. Essay by Fiona Bradley, an interview with the artist, biography, exhibition history, and selected bibliography. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1734 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SAMARAS, LUCAS Lucas Samaras: Pastels [1993] Pace Gallery. 1993, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Soho gallery. Beautiful color plates of the work, nearly all of which is untitled. Fine in folded card wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 2509 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SHAPIRO, DAVID David Shapiro: Five Series, Paintings, Drawings, Prints Fort Wayne Museum of Art. 1982, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 24-page catalogue for an exhibition that traveled to the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1982, and to the Canton (Ohio) Art Institute in 1983. 15 plates, in color as appropriate, plus color cover. Shapiro's abstractions are lively. Detailed artist's chronology included. Laid in is an illustrated invitation card to a show of Shapiro's drawings and paintings at the Poindexter Gallery in New York in May 1977, as a bonus. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 3592 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SIENA, JAMES James Siena [2008] PaceWildenstein Gallery. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. 96-page catalogue for an exhibition held March 28-April 26, 2008, at the Chelsea gallery. All illustrations, and there are many, in color where applicable. Siena likes abstract forms, mazes, and grotesquerie. The group of enamel on copper paintings are particularly interesting. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3580 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SIMA, JOSEF Josef Sima: 1891-1971 Narodni Galerie. 1991, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 94-page catalogue with many, many black and white illustrations of SÃma's work, mostly drawings. Text in Czech. Fine in wraps as issued, with color illustration to front cover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 1800 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	OYSTER BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Walls Have Tongues: Oyster Bay Buildings and Their Stories Oyster Bay Historical Society. 1977, First Edition. Soft Cover. Ill.: Various. 114-page look at historic buildings in Oyster Bay, New York, with their histories in text and drawings by local artists, including Frances Roosevelt. Possibly signed by the editor, John MacKay on title page. Near-Fine condition with sunning to spine and light wear; first free endpaper is loose. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1027 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SUGIMOTO, HENRY Henry Sugimoto: North American Japanese People in Relocation Camps [transl] 1981, First Edition. Hard Cover. 118 pages, with most text in Japanese; short introductions and captions in English as well. 37 color plates showing intimate scenes of internment camp life for Japanese families while the US was at war with Japan. Sugimoto was there. The style is naÃ¯ve yet impressionistic; very moving. Fine hardcover binding in near-Fine dust jacket with light wear to corners; original blue band included, the jacket protected by Mylar. Scarce in this condition. Apparently signed and dated by Sugimoto to the page following the title under his photograph. Fine/Near-Fine. Signed by Artist. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 3323 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.

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	LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART Early Prints and Drawings of California from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1955, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 44-page catalogue, although with many prints and annotations, doesn't come anywhere near capturing the sweep of the Honeyman collection. Excellent reference, and delightful glimpse of the major cities about mid-19th century. Near-fine condition with very light wear. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 6119 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1959, Limited. Wraps As Issued. One of 3000 printed in January of that year. In wraps as issued. More than 200 black & white plates, covering an astonishing range of drawings. Good condition: covers have pulled away from the spine (can be reglued easily); slight spotting to front cover. Good/Issued Without Jacket. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 2376 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	BONE, JAMES London Echoing Dutton. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: Muirhead Bone. Undated edition and printing. Drawings by the author's brother, Muirhead Bone, are marvelously evocative of a vanished London (drawn between 1901-42). Very Good++ binding slightly faded, in near-Very Good jacket with chips to spine ends, rough rear top edge. Very Good++/Near-Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 2294 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	POUSETTE-DART, RICHARD Richard Pousette-Dart, Drawing: Form is a Verb Knoedler Gallery. 2008, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 38-page catalogue for an exhibition held January 19-March 8, 2008, with an essay by Robert Hobbs and more than 20 plates, some in color, as appropriate. Fine overview of the characteristic work. Fine in folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3583 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	BATCHELOR, DAVID AND CHRISTIAN SCHLATTER [ESSAYS] Art and Language: Hostages XXV-LXXVI Galerie De Paris, Lisson Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery. 1990, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 80-page catalogue published to document the exhibition of the Hostage work in the Galerie de Paris, the Lisson Gallery, and the Marian Goodman Gallery in 1990-1991. Texts by Batchelor and Schlatter describe the process (always more important to this group than the product), and the plates include the studies as well as the finished work. As the cover notes: "We may hide behind our speech at this appalling moment." Beautifully produced, as always. This copy in Fine condition but for a little light wear in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 3351 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DAVIS, GERALD Gerald Davis: Drawings 2002-2006 Salon 94. 2006, First Edition. Boards. Issued by the Black Dragon Society, Salon 94, and John Connelly Presents (both New York galleries), with a prose piece by Jeffrey Dorchen, and about 40 illustrations, including a number of foldouts. Davis likes to draw the human body, without much regard for realism, alone or not, in sexual situations, in a style that is better than a Comfort manual and almost as good as Mad Magazine. An acquired taste. Fine in boards as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 3585 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SHEPHERD GALLERY Architectural Drawings: An Exhibition of 18th and 19th Century British and Continental... Shepherd Gallery. 1987, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Catalogue for an exhibition held October 28-November 21, 1987 in New York of "18th and 19th Century British and Continental Architectural Drawings, Topographical Watercolours and Interiors". 64 black and white plates on coated stock; an impressive collection. Color cover is Charles Robert Cockerell's "Tribute to the Architecture of Ancient Rome". Light wear to edges and spine ends. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 2522 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	GEERLINGS, GERALD K. Paris Along the Seine French Institute/Alliance Francaise and Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. 1987, First Trade. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Ill.: Gerald K. Geerlings. 160 pages of Geerlings' wonderful cityscapes, with perhaps the wonderfulest city of all as his subject. Part architecture, part drawing, and part urban history, this is a fascinating and useful resource. Fine condition in stiff wraps, slight bump to upper front corner. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 5008 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	GUTIERREZ, EMILIA Emilia Gutierrez: Habitantes De La Luz y La Sombra Gabriel Levinas. 2004, First Edition. Hard Cover. Habitantes de la luz y la sombra: dibujos y pinturas 1960-2002 (Gabriel Levinas, 2004). Very nearly a catalogue raisonnÃ© of the artist's work: 61 color plates of the paintings and as many of the drawings. Much of the work is figurative and very subtle, particularly the coloration. Chronology and other documentation included. In Fine condition in hardcover with dust jacket. Fine/Fine. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 1330 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HARRIS, JOHN, JILL LEVER, MARGARET RICHARDSON Great Drawings from the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects The Drawing Center. 1983, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. 136-page exhibition catalogue that includes the entire range of British architecture from the Renaissance to the early 1980s, fully illustrated with drawings, prints, some color images. Fine condition in stiff wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 1229 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ISAACS, JOHN Vor Der Sintflut: 27 Drawings Museum 52. 2006, Limited/Numbered. Cloth Over Boards. Limited edition signed and numbered (2 of either 44 or 94; the handwriting is difficult to decipher) to the colophon page. There may be 27 drawings, but I count 29 black and white plates here. Pages 65 to 94 are taken up with the text, which appears to consist of the author's statements. I would call this an artist's book and, if you've seen it, you might too. Fine in black cloth boards as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 1748 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	JONES, CAROLINE A. [CURATOR] Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: August Rodin to Elizabeth Murray Stanford University Museum of Art. 1988, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue for an exhibition held November 15, 1988-February 19, 1989, with excellent text by curator Jones, plus 9 color plates and others in black and white, in pencil, gouache, watercolor. A fine collection, including a Gorky self-portrait (color, front cover), an Emil Nolde head (color), Marin's Wall Street (color), a Reinhardt gouache (color), and work by David Smith, Franz Kline, Katherine Porter, Diebenkorn, Stella, Celmins, De Forest, Arneson, Grooms, Dine, Oldenbourg, and Yvonne Jacquette, among others. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 3577 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KLETT, WALTER Figure Painting Watson Guptill. 1948, First Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: Walter Klett. Yes, the instruction is first-rate and the photographs helpful, but you're gonna wanna have Klett's black and white portraits, mostly of female dancers: Bambi Lynn, for heaven's sake, and Vera Zorina, Gladys Swarthout, and Alicia Markova! About Very Good hardcover binding with minor wear to spine ends and corners; lacking the dust jacket. About Very Good/Lacking the Dust Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 2203 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KOSTABI, MARK Upheaval Pelham Press and Mark Kostabi. 1985, First Edition Limited. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Nearly 90 plates, 16 of them in color, showing Kostabi's characteristic work, definitely an acquired taste. One of 2000 copies. Inscribed, dated, and signed by Kostabi to the title page. Fine condition in wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. Signed by Artist. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 1695 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	[LEWTY, SIMON] Simon Lewty: Towards Drawing Art First Gallery. 1998, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. 28-page exhibition catalogue; black and white plates. The title hints at and the plates bear out Lewty's use of text, the act of moving a pencil on a medium, "towards" drawing but not quite getting there yet. Light soiled. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 2068 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MCEVILLEY, THOMAS [ESSAY] Austrian Drawings: Gunter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. 1986, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 24-page catalogue for an exhibition held January 12-February 23, 1986, with a reprint of a Thomas McEvilley essay from ArtForum, and 17 black and white plates of these contemporary but decidely medieval drawings. Near-Fine with minor ink notation to top corner of title page. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3584 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	GIBSON, MICHAEL AND JEAN CLAIR Kostabi Self-published. 1981, First Edition Limited. Stiff Card Wraps. Artists Book, Self-published, Whittier CA, 1981, in a limited edition printed at Kinko's. Early work of the Great Kostabi (self-billed), 39 of the images, which look-at first glance-like those never-lifted-the-pencil-from-the-page drawings. Humorous. Fine stiff wraps as issued with very faint wear. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1066 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Fantasy and Reality: Drawings Fromt he Sunny Crawford Von Bulow Collection Pierpont Morgan Library. 1995, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 110 page catalogue to accompany what must have been a stunning exhibit. Fortunately, the catalogue is beautifully produced, as is usual with the Morgan, with most plates in color and enough bibliographic and scholarly information to sate the scholar. In Fine condition in folded card wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 2665 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	REGO, PAULA Celestina's House Abbot Hall Art Gallery. 2001, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 84-page catalogue for an exhibition held in the UK in 2001 and at the Yale Center for British Art in 2002. Nearly all color plates (except for some drawings) of the work, which is Hogarth-ish, narrative, portraiture verging on caricature, and altogether absorbing. Essay by Fiona Bradley, an interview with the artist, biography, exhibition history, and selected bibliography. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1734 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SAMARAS, LUCAS Lucas Samaras: Pastels [1993] Pace Gallery. 1993, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Soho gallery. Beautiful color plates of the work, nearly all of which is untitled. Fine in folded card wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 2509 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SHAPIRO, DAVID David Shapiro: Five Series, Paintings, Drawings, Prints Fort Wayne Museum of Art. 1982, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 24-page catalogue for an exhibition that traveled to the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1982, and to the Canton (Ohio) Art Institute in 1983. 15 plates, in color as appropriate, plus color cover. Shapiro's abstractions are lively. Detailed artist's chronology included. Laid in is an illustrated invitation card to a show of Shapiro's drawings and paintings at the Poindexter Gallery in New York in May 1977, as a bonus. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 3592 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SIENA, JAMES James Siena [2008] PaceWildenstein Gallery. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps. 96-page catalogue for an exhibition held March 28-April 26, 2008, at the Chelsea gallery. All illustrations, and there are many, in color where applicable. Siena likes abstract forms, mazes, and grotesquerie. The group of enamel on copper paintings are particularly interesting. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 3580 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SIMA, JOSEF Josef Sima: 1891-1971 Narodni Galerie. 1991, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 94-page catalogue with many, many black and white illustrations of SÃma's work, mostly drawings. Text in Czech. Fine in wraps as issued, with color illustration to front cover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 1800 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	OYSTER BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Walls Have Tongues: Oyster Bay Buildings and Their Stories Oyster Bay Historical Society. 1977, First Edition. Soft Cover. Ill.: Various. 114-page look at historic buildings in Oyster Bay, New York, with their histories in text and drawings by local artists, including Frances Roosevelt. Possibly signed by the editor, John MacKay on title page. Near-Fine condition with sunning to spine and light wear; first free endpaper is loose. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1027 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SUGIMOTO, HENRY Henry Sugimoto: North American Japanese People in Relocation Camps [transl] 1981, First Edition. Hard Cover. 118 pages, with most text in Japanese; short introductions and captions in English as well. 37 color plates showing intimate scenes of internment camp life for Japanese families while the US was at war with Japan. Sugimoto was there. The style is naÃ¯ve yet impressionistic; very moving. Fine hardcover binding in near-Fine dust jacket with light wear to corners; original blue band included, the jacket protected by Mylar. Scarce in this condition. Apparently signed and dated by Sugimoto to the page following the title under his photograph. Fine/Near-Fine. Signed by Artist. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 3323 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.