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	Offshore: Paintings of the Farallones: Art & Environment California Academy of Sciences. 1997, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Features the paintings of Jerrold Ballaine, tony King, Jack Stuppin, and William Wheeler. With essays by Philip Linhares (guest curator), Peter Selz, and Claire Peaslee and 12 color plates. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 1629 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ANXIANG, FAN Fan Anxiang: Covered With Grass, Covered With Trees Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2007, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. Curated by Huang Liaoyuan, this exhibition is typical of the BANG approach to contemporary Chinese art. Anxiang is, presumably, a surrealist or a super-realist, yet his work also links visually to ancient Chinese painting. 64 pages with about 50 color plates and text in English and Chinese. Near-Fine with slight bump to lower corners. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3799 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	CHE, CHUANG Chuang Che: The Third Approach David Findlay, Jr. 2007, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 10 color plates of mixed media pieces, notable among them the artist's Hudson River Series, illustrate Che's concept of the "third" way, which is neither Eastern nor Western. Abstract and dense. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 3798 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	CHUAN, LIU Liu Chuan Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2007, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 64-page catalogue with text in English and Chinese. Chuan's work typically features clusters of people with dead (dead-pan? undead?) faces: on top of or inside planes, buildings, forests, on flatbed trucks, even in relatively spacious surroundings, where they are still clustered. Cool. Near-Fine in wraps as issued with bump to lower corners. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3800 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HARTE, GLYNN BOYD Mr. Harte's Holiday Sinclair Stevenson. 1990, First Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: Glynn Boyd Harte. The French coast as seen through the eyes of a nostalgic but not sentimental watercolorist. Puts you there. The colors! Fine hardcover binding in Very Good++ jacket with some wear to the top edge and spine head. Fine/Very Good++. USD 23.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2045] Book number: 2163 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	JIANGHUA, DUAN Duan Jianghua China Square Publishing. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. With an introduction by Robert C. Morgan and more than 17 color plates, the luminous quality of Jianghua's work is clear, along with its underlying menace. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3794 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	JIFENG, ZHAO Zhao Jifeng: In the Wild Aura Gallery. 2006, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 40-page catalogue with nearly 30 color plates of Jifeng's oil paintings, most of girls or pandas. The panda paintings are at once poignant and a little spooky. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3805 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LI, TIANBING Tianbing Li: Me and My Brother L & M Arts. 2008, First Edition. Folded Wraps. Good essay by Britta Erickson, illustrated with Li family photographs, plus an exhibition checklist and an artist's biography. Otherwise, color plates of the work: images of small boys, mostly in pairs. Haunting. Fine in folded and pasted-down wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3807 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LIU, YANG Yang Liu Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2006, First Edition. Stiff Folded Card Wraps. Hefty, 106-page catalogue, with (brief) text in Chinese and English. The rest are color plates of her work, which is, at first glance, European-impressionistic, but a closer look reveals naturalism bordering on surrealism. On series in particular, of book pages apparently fanning, is spooky. Fine in stiff folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27 \| JP¥ 4001] Book number: 3801 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MAURER, ALFRED Maurer 1969 [ephemera] Bertha Schaefer Gallery. 1969, First Edition. Card. Ephemera, Folded invitation on cardstock to the exhibition held February 8-March 8, 1969 at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery. Black and white image of "Father and Son" gouache on panel, ca 1930. Fine condition. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2644 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MING, LIU Liu Ming: ShangHai 2003 Aura Gallery. 2004, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 42-page catalogue, with 4-panel folded front cover, showing 3-panel panoramic view of the city. Nine color photographs, all with grid-like images, plus 20 color plates of oils, most of them misty nudes. Text in Chinese, English, and French. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3645 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Contemporary Indian Painting National Museum of Modern Art. 1970, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 32-page exhibition catalogue, with 17 black and white plates, two in color. Important documentation of southeast Asian cross-fertilization in contemporary art. This copy withdrawn from the Walker (stamp to title page). Otherwise, Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3644 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Portraits of Helena Rubinstein Helena Rubinstein Foundation. 1976, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 18-page brochure that documents the Foundation's collection of portraits by an amazing range of artists: Dali, Dufy, LaurenÃ§in, Portinari, Graham Sutherland, Tchelitchew.. When did you last hear these names mentioned in the same breath? No plates, but a color reproduction of Sutherland's 1959 portrait on the cover. A curious cultural artifact. Fine in wraps.. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 3923 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Summary Catalogue of Paintings in the Dahlem Museum Hartman. 1968. Soft Cover. 120 pp of text, 96 b & w plates. Useful for research. In soft covers as issued, with minor edgewear, some scraping. About Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 2195 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	PETROSYAN, YURI A., ET AL. Pages of Perfection: Islamic Paintings and Calligraphy from the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Electa/ARCH Foundation. 1994, First Edition. Stiff Folded Card Wraps. 340-page catalogue from an exhibition held in Paris (October 14, 1994-January 8, 1995), and later in Lugano and the Metropolitan in New York. Both King Simeon of Bulgaria and an Archduchess of Austria have contributed a preface, and there are essays on "The Triumph of the Qalam, and Arabic and Persian manuscripts. In addition to a bibliography and glossary, there are also lists of the individuals and organizations that lent Islamic manuscripts, and publications of Russian Academy of Sciences publications on the manuscripts. Nearly all the plates are in color and fully described and captioned, making this a valuable resource in this area. Very heavy, so be prepared for extra shipping charges. Fine in stiff folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 2869 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	[ORLAND] PIERRI Pierri: Pinturas Dibujos Galeria Rubbers. 1969, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue for an exhibition held July 15-31, 1969 in Rio. While Pierri is often labeled a surrealista, the paintings also reflect Latin espiritu. One color plate, many others in black and white. Near-Fine in wraps as issued: light wear to corners. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27 \| JP¥ 4001] Book number: 1335 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	POSNER, DONALD Watteau: A Lady at Her Toilet Viking. 1973. Hard Cover. From the Art in Context series. Very useful in-depth examination of a single painting, in 112 pages, including index, notes, and list of 52 illustrations, plus foldout of the painting itself in color. Jacket has some flaring and two repaired tears to bottom front edge and a lateral closed tear across the bottom of the rear flap. Fine/About Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2451 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	PHILLIPS DE PURY AND LUXEMBOURG American Art-October 30, 2003 Phillips De Pury and Luxembourg. 2003, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. Auction Catalogue, Catalogue for the auction held October 30, 2003; 60 pages; 101 color plates. Artists range from Washington Allston to Alexander Helwig Wyant, with Elsie Driggs, Marsden Hartley, George Luks, Henry McFee, and Allen Tucker in between. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3107 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	RABOFF, ERNEST Diego Rodriguez De Silve y Velasquez Doubleday. 1974. Hard Cover. Another in Raboff's Art for Children series. Lovely handwritten text and color illustrations. Fine hardcover binding (the publisher's "reinforced library edition" binding) in jacket with chips to spine head, some soiling to white ground. Fine/About Good. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 978] Book number: 2165 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ROSTWOROWSKIEGO, MARKA [EDITOR] Polakow Portret Wlasny Arkady. 1983, First Edition. Hard Cover. Even if you don't read Polish, the nearly 400 plates (nearly all in color) tell the story of Poland's art from the 16th to the mid-20th century perfectly. Very powerful images, all of people, which must be what tells the story so eloquently. Good index. Fine hardcover binding in Fine dust jacket. Weight may require extra shipping charges. Fine/Fine. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 2875 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	RUNSHI, ZHANG Zhang Runshi: Nirvana Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2006, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 64-page exhibition catalogue with text in English and Chinese. Mostly color plates of Runshi's narrative paintings, Mattise-ish at first glance, plus a few of his black and white sketches. Fine in folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3806 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SHUO, FENG Feng Shuo: Tales Marlborough Chelsea. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue with an interview with the artist conducted by Philippe Koutouzis, a checklist of the exhibition, a brief biography of the artist, and brief bibliography and 24 color plates of the paintings, which often feature incubi, or pigs, or both, and which all give the impression of vague figures somehow emerging from the backgrounds. Intriguing. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 3797 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS L'Art Portugais De L'epoque Des Grandes Decouvertes Au XX Siecle Gauthier-Villars et Cie. First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 75 pages of text in French, plus a signature of black and white plates on coated stock. Most of the art is portraiture, but not all. Probably produced as an exhibition catalogue sometime in the Thirties. Cream covers are moderately soiled, with a red scrape across the front panel, edges are worn and bent around the text block. A previous owner has written the title in pencil along the spine covering. Nonetheless, a fascinating glimpse into this period in classical art. Good+/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 5023 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Du: Cultural Monthly January 1958 1958, First Edition. Paper. Periodical, Text in German with a summary in English. This issue: Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957), Bela Bartok, and Naive German literature. Fine in paper as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3301 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Du: Cultural Monthly May 1958 (Gardens) 1958, First American Edition. Paper. Periodical, Text in German with English summary. This issue: Gardens, including German rose gardens, Egyptian gardens, and Sackville-West's Sissinghurst extravaganza. Fine in paper as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 3302 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.

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	Offshore: Paintings of the Farallones: Art & Environment California Academy of Sciences. 1997, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Features the paintings of Jerrold Ballaine, tony King, Jack Stuppin, and William Wheeler. With essays by Philip Linhares (guest curator), Peter Selz, and Claire Peaslee and 12 color plates. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 1629 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ANXIANG, FAN Fan Anxiang: Covered With Grass, Covered With Trees Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2007, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. Curated by Huang Liaoyuan, this exhibition is typical of the BANG approach to contemporary Chinese art. Anxiang is, presumably, a surrealist or a super-realist, yet his work also links visually to ancient Chinese painting. 64 pages with about 50 color plates and text in English and Chinese. Near-Fine with slight bump to lower corners. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3799 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	CHE, CHUANG Chuang Che: The Third Approach David Findlay, Jr. 2007, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 10 color plates of mixed media pieces, notable among them the artist's Hudson River Series, illustrate Che's concept of the "third" way, which is neither Eastern nor Western. Abstract and dense. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 3798 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	CHUAN, LIU Liu Chuan Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2007, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 64-page catalogue with text in English and Chinese. Chuan's work typically features clusters of people with dead (dead-pan? undead?) faces: on top of or inside planes, buildings, forests, on flatbed trucks, even in relatively spacious surroundings, where they are still clustered. Cool. Near-Fine in wraps as issued with bump to lower corners. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3800 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	HARTE, GLYNN BOYD Mr. Harte's Holiday Sinclair Stevenson. 1990, First Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: Glynn Boyd Harte. The French coast as seen through the eyes of a nostalgic but not sentimental watercolorist. Puts you there. The colors! Fine hardcover binding in Very Good++ jacket with some wear to the top edge and spine head. Fine/Very Good++. USD 23.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2045] Book number: 2163 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	JIANGHUA, DUAN Duan Jianghua China Square Publishing. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. With an introduction by Robert C. Morgan and more than 17 color plates, the luminous quality of Jianghua's work is clear, along with its underlying menace. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3794 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	JIFENG, ZHAO Zhao Jifeng: In the Wild Aura Gallery. 2006, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 40-page catalogue with nearly 30 color plates of Jifeng's oil paintings, most of girls or pandas. The panda paintings are at once poignant and a little spooky. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3805 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LI, TIANBING Tianbing Li: Me and My Brother L & M Arts. 2008, First Edition. Folded Wraps. Good essay by Britta Erickson, illustrated with Li family photographs, plus an exhibition checklist and an artist's biography. Otherwise, color plates of the work: images of small boys, mostly in pairs. Haunting. Fine in folded and pasted-down wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3807 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LIU, YANG Yang Liu Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2006, First Edition. Stiff Folded Card Wraps. Hefty, 106-page catalogue, with (brief) text in Chinese and English. The rest are color plates of her work, which is, at first glance, European-impressionistic, but a closer look reveals naturalism bordering on surrealism. On series in particular, of book pages apparently fanning, is spooky. Fine in stiff folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27 \| JP¥ 4001] Book number: 3801 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MAURER, ALFRED Maurer 1969 [ephemera] Bertha Schaefer Gallery. 1969, First Edition. Card. Ephemera, Folded invitation on cardstock to the exhibition held February 8-March 8, 1969 at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery. Black and white image of "Father and Son" gouache on panel, ca 1930. Fine condition. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2644 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	MING, LIU Liu Ming: ShangHai 2003 Aura Gallery. 2004, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 42-page catalogue, with 4-panel folded front cover, showing 3-panel panoramic view of the city. Nine color photographs, all with grid-like images, plus 20 color plates of oils, most of them misty nudes. Text in Chinese, English, and French. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3645 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Contemporary Indian Painting National Museum of Modern Art. 1970, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 32-page exhibition catalogue, with 17 black and white plates, two in color. Important documentation of southeast Asian cross-fertilization in contemporary art. This copy withdrawn from the Walker (stamp to title page). Otherwise, Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3644 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Portraits of Helena Rubinstein Helena Rubinstein Foundation. 1976, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 18-page brochure that documents the Foundation's collection of portraits by an amazing range of artists: Dali, Dufy, LaurenÃ§in, Portinari, Graham Sutherland, Tchelitchew.. When did you last hear these names mentioned in the same breath? No plates, but a color reproduction of Sutherland's 1959 portrait on the cover. A curious cultural artifact. Fine in wraps.. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 3923 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	NONE Summary Catalogue of Paintings in the Dahlem Museum Hartman. 1968. Soft Cover. 120 pp of text, 96 b & w plates. Useful for research. In soft covers as issued, with minor edgewear, some scraping. About Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1067] Book number: 2195 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	PETROSYAN, YURI A., ET AL. Pages of Perfection: Islamic Paintings and Calligraphy from the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Electa/ARCH Foundation. 1994, First Edition. Stiff Folded Card Wraps. 340-page catalogue from an exhibition held in Paris (October 14, 1994-January 8, 1995), and later in Lugano and the Metropolitan in New York. Both King Simeon of Bulgaria and an Archduchess of Austria have contributed a preface, and there are essays on "The Triumph of the Qalam, and Arabic and Persian manuscripts. In addition to a bibliography and glossary, there are also lists of the individuals and organizations that lent Islamic manuscripts, and publications of Russian Academy of Sciences publications on the manuscripts. Nearly all the plates are in color and fully described and captioned, making this a valuable resource in this area. Very heavy, so be prepared for extra shipping charges. Fine in stiff folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 2869 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	[ORLAND] PIERRI Pierri: Pinturas Dibujos Galeria Rubbers. 1969, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue for an exhibition held July 15-31, 1969 in Rio. While Pierri is often labeled a surrealista, the paintings also reflect Latin espiritu. One color plate, many others in black and white. Near-Fine in wraps as issued: light wear to corners. Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27 \| JP¥ 4001] Book number: 1335 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	POSNER, DONALD Watteau: A Lady at Her Toilet Viking. 1973. Hard Cover. From the Art in Context series. Very useful in-depth examination of a single painting, in 112 pages, including index, notes, and list of 52 illustrations, plus foldout of the painting itself in color. Jacket has some flaring and two repaired tears to bottom front edge and a lateral closed tear across the bottom of the rear flap. Fine/About Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2451 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	PHILLIPS DE PURY AND LUXEMBOURG American Art-October 30, 2003 Phillips De Pury and Luxembourg. 2003, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. Auction Catalogue, Catalogue for the auction held October 30, 2003; 60 pages; 101 color plates. Artists range from Washington Allston to Alexander Helwig Wyant, with Elsie Driggs, Marsden Hartley, George Luks, Henry McFee, and Allen Tucker in between. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3107 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	RABOFF, ERNEST Diego Rodriguez De Silve y Velasquez Doubleday. 1974. Hard Cover. Another in Raboff's Art for Children series. Lovely handwritten text and color illustrations. Fine hardcover binding (the publisher's "reinforced library edition" binding) in jacket with chips to spine head, some soiling to white ground. Fine/About Good. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 978] Book number: 2165 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	ROSTWOROWSKIEGO, MARKA [EDITOR] Polakow Portret Wlasny Arkady. 1983, First Edition. Hard Cover. Even if you don't read Polish, the nearly 400 plates (nearly all in color) tell the story of Poland's art from the 16th to the mid-20th century perfectly. Very powerful images, all of people, which must be what tells the story so eloquently. Good index. Fine hardcover binding in Fine dust jacket. Weight may require extra shipping charges. Fine/Fine. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 2875 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	RUNSHI, ZHANG Zhang Runshi: Nirvana Beijing Art Now Gallery. 2006, First Edition. Folded Wraps. 64-page exhibition catalogue with text in English and Chinese. Mostly color plates of Runshi's narrative paintings, Mattise-ish at first glance, plus a few of his black and white sketches. Fine in folded wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3806 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SHUO, FENG Feng Shuo: Tales Marlborough Chelsea. 2008, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 32-page catalogue with an interview with the artist conducted by Philippe Koutouzis, a checklist of the exhibition, a brief biography of the artist, and brief bibliography and 24 color plates of the paintings, which often feature incubi, or pigs, or both, and which all give the impression of vague figures somehow emerging from the backgrounds. Intriguing. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 3797 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS L'Art Portugais De L'epoque Des Grandes Decouvertes Au XX Siecle Gauthier-Villars et Cie. First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 75 pages of text in French, plus a signature of black and white plates on coated stock. Most of the art is portraiture, but not all. Probably produced as an exhibition catalogue sometime in the Thirties. Cream covers are moderately soiled, with a red scrape across the front panel, edges are worn and bent around the text block. A previous owner has written the title in pencil along the spine covering. Nonetheless, a fascinating glimpse into this period in classical art. Good+/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 5023 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Du: Cultural Monthly January 1958 1958, First Edition. Paper. Periodical, Text in German with a summary in English. This issue: Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957), Bela Bartok, and Naive German literature. Fine in paper as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3301 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Du: Cultural Monthly May 1958 (Gardens) 1958, First American Edition. Paper. Periodical, Text in German with English summary. This issue: Gardens, including German rose gardens, Egyptian gardens, and Sackville-West's Sissinghurst extravaganza. Fine in paper as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 3302 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.