Antwerpen: A 37 90 89, 1969 21 x 15cm, 1pp printed red on white paper. The typographic design announcement of Broodthaer's Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Department des Aigles Section XVII E along with the performance by James Lee Byars of "This is the Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling" on the 5th October 1969 which lasted from 1pm until 7pm. This performance pre-dated the work being recreated and eveolved at the Eugenia Butler gallery in the same year (the first involved an entirely dark room, the Los Angeles recreation a room entirely decked in red. One slight ink mark next to the Broodthaers' listing else VG+. Very scarce....

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
12.5 x 10.2cm, single sheet of dark blue card accordion folded six times to make 14 panels. Each panel has a line drawing which is unusually not credited so perhaps appropriated from another publication. Each boat is dedicated to a friend or enemy such that one can discern Finlay's opinion of them or a wry comment on their character.

A Boat, for Bob Cobbing*
Barking Fish-Carrier

Cobbing as Finlay notes here with the * was a sound poet in the London poetry scene. Of course the entire literary scene might well be a "boatyard" of ever moving figures b(c)obbing here and there.
Murray has placed this item as an artist's book but it could easily be re-catagorised as a folding card but for ease of reference we have decided to keep in as an "artist's book" in our listings.

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