Pleasure of Pleasure Ruins of Ruins

7.7" x 8.3"
2026
Pleasure of Pleasure Ruin of ruin

Books used:

Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay, interpreted in photographs by Roloff Beny, ed. Constance Babington Smith (1947; rpt. New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1977)--2 copies 

Snake: The Essential Visual Guide to the World of Snakes by Chris Mattison (New York: DK Publishing, 2006)

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, illustrated by Al Anderson and Jesse March (Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1964)

The Little White House by Odille Ousley and David H. Russell (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1957)

Japanese Colour Prints by J. Hillier (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1991)

One for a Man, Two for a Horse: A Pictorial History, Grave & Comic, of Patent Medicines by Gerald Carson (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961)

Model Soldiers by Henry Harris (London: Octopus Books, 1962)

African Sculpture by Michael Kan (Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1970)

"B" is for Betsy, written and illustrated by Carolyn Haywood (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1939)

Robert Brady: A Survey Exhibition, Janice T. Dreisbach, curator; essays by Thomas H. Garver and John Fitz Gibbon (Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 1989)

Cricket Cartoons and Caricatures by George Plumptre (London: Willow Books, 1989)

Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement by Gerald Jonas, preface by Rhoda Grauer (New York: Abrams, 1992)

The Family Physician by Dr. Herman Pomeranz and Dr. Irwin S. Koll (New York: Bobley Publishing Corp., 1951)

Nature's Ways: How Nature Takes Care of Its Own by Roy Chapman Andrews, illustrated by Andre Durenceau and others (New York: Crown Publishers, 1951)

Krippen im Bayerischen National museum by Nina Cockerel (München: Bayerischen National Museum, 1980)

Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates Among the Baule, West Africa by Philip L. Ravenhill (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996)

Alexander Fiddlewhistle by Charles E. Watts (Baltimore, MD: Helicon Press, 1960)

Bodywatching: A Field Guide to the Human Species by Desmond Morris (New York: Crown Publishers, 1985)

The Wages of Sin and Other Victorian Joys and Sorrows, as seen and engraved by that old sentimentalist, John Held, Jr. (New York: Dover Publications, 1964)

Embrace of Life: The Sculptures of Gustav Vigeland by Nathan Cabot Hale, photographs by David Finn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d.)

Big Big Story Book (Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1955)

Tatt Book: Visionaries of Tattoo by Joseph Ari Aloi, aka JK5, introduction by Carlo McCormick (New York: Universe Publishing, 2011)

Pretty Witty Cakes: Book of Sugarcraft Characters by Suzi Witt (London: Quadrille Publishing, 2014)

Superhero Comics of the Golden Age: The Illustrated History by Mike Benton (Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1992)

Night Thoughts, or The Complaint and The Consolation by Edward Young, illustrated by William Blake (New York: Dover, 1975)

World Theatre in Pictures: From Ancient Times to Modern Broadway by Tom Prideaux (New York: Greenberg, 1953)

Toot & Puddle: The One and Only by Holly Hobbie (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006)

The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel (Hong Kong: Taschen, n.d.)

Stories Children Love, ed. Watty Piper (New York: Platt & Munk Co., 1933)

The Illustrated History of Girlie Magazines by Mark Gabor (New York: Harmony Books, 1984)

 

Also much miscellany from previous projects, including "You Can Beat the Atomic Bomb," which was in The Family Physician (1951)

 

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