Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 11.5cm, die cut five pointed star printed black on white card. Announcement card (which does not give the date of the show in April 1969 at the Wide White Space gallery) - while ostensibly an invite card the work is much more akin to one of the artist's paper object multiples . Scarce. VG+. ...
n.p. (London): Fulcrum Press, 1969
21.5 x 14.5cm, 48pp. Boards with printed dust-jacket. The third edition of this Finlay's second book of poems - traditional in format mostly and usually in Scots/Doric. However this was published by Fulcrum who claimed it as the "first edition" on the colophon much to Finlay's annoyance. The original linocuts in the earlier publications have gone and the design is typographic only. Some marks and evidence of past adhesive labels on the front of the dustjacket (which has an image of a Giacometti maquette as its illustration) else VG. Scarce.
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Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969
12 x 12cm, 2pp. Typographic card with tiny text printed green on white. Notes the performances of A PINK SILK AIRPLANE FOR 100 1000 MINUTES OF ATTENTION OR 1/2 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES LEE BYARS. VG+.
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N.p. (Dunfermline): Carnegie Festival of Music and the Arts, 1969
20.5 x 106.cm, 12pp exhibition catalogue for an early show as party of the Dunfermline festival. Mimeograph. There are lists of the 16 works displayed and interesting short notes (by Finlay?) which are insightful for later themes in the poet's work. VG+. Very rare.
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N.p.: n.p. 1969 35cm x 35cm, red tissue paper in the shape of a five pointed star with the text: “Please come to the TV Ball at the Garden Store Showroom on Fear. 27 at 7pm (for 1 hour as Tribute to Jeff (sic actually “Jef") Cornells and the TV Staff and to the success of the James Lee Byars world Question Centre. The World Question Center, was a construction of the artist which was featured in a live broadcast on Belgian television in 1969, where students phoned famous intellectuals to discover what questions they were asking themselves. This rare ephemera is one of the earliest of Byars’ paper works. Folded for mailing there are tiny tears on some edges but over all VG for such a delicate item....
Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969 27 x 20cm, unpaginated (200pp printed recto only). Original wrappers. Byars’ first ever artist’s book printed black on pink paper. One of only 250 examples. VG+. ...
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
21 x 17.8cm, 12pp. Original card covers with pictorial dust wrapper. An artist's book with three b/w photographs of boats on the large pond (Later to be called Loch Ech after Ian's son) on Finlay's recently purchased farm alongside three concrete poems - the words placed in a constellation or grid under the photographs. This example is signed and dedicated by Finlay in blue felt tipped ink on the inside front cover to Maxwell Allan a friend and collaborator. VG.
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28 x 21.5cm, 1pp working for a personal horoscope for Frank Gilette (the video and installation artist. The paper is from commercially purchased sheets that allow for the casting of these diagrams but there are extensive calculations by Yalkut considering many aspects of the supposed influence of the sun and moon and stars on their lives. JOINT: Stapled to the sheet are 4pp of a carbon copy of a detailed biography of Gilette. JOINT: A second hand made horoscope which is a circular Commercially purchased sheet. Yalkut was a serious practitioner of astronomy. He often created personal horoscopes for his friends and used them to give advice on how to make decisions (and who to work with). This one such example of these pseudo-scientific items. VG although previously folded. ...
28 x 21.5cm, 1pp working for a personal horoscope for Iris Lezak (the painter and very close friend of Jackson Mac Low). The paper is from commercially purchased sheets that allow for the casting of these diagrams but there are extensive calculations by Yalkut considering many aspects of the supposed influence of the sun and moon and stars on their lives. Yalkut was a serious practitioner of astronomy. He often created personal horoscopes for his friends and used them to give advice on how to make decisions (and who to work with). This one such example of these pseudo-scientific items. VG although previously folded. ...
24 x 17cm, 1pp working for a personal horoscope for Larry Freifeld (Elazar Larry Freifeld - the writer). The paper is from commercially purchased sheets that allow for the casting of these diagrams but there are extensive calculations by Yalkut considering many aspects of the supposed influence of the sun and moon and stars on their lives. Yalkut was a serious practitioner of astronomy. He often created personal horoscopes for his friends and used them to give advice on how to make decisions (and who to work with). This one such example of these pseudo-scientific items. VG although previously folded. ...
24 x 17cm, 1pp working for a personal horoscope for Isobe (actually the painter Brian Yoshimi Isobe). The paper is from commercially purchased sheets that allow for the casting of these diagrams but there are extensive calculations by Yalkut considering many aspects of the supposed influence of the sun and moon and stars on their lives. E Yalkut was a serious practitioner of astronomy. He often created personal horoscopes for his friends and used them to give advice on how to make decisions (and who to work with). This one such example of these pseudo-scientific items. VG although previously folded. ...
28 x 21.5cm, 1pp working for a personal horoscope for Ira Schneider. The paper is a xerox from commercially purchased sheets that allow for the casting of these diagrams but there are extensive calculations by Yalkut considering many aspects of the supposed influence of the sun and moon and stars on their lives. Yalkut was a serious practitioner of astronomy. He often created personal horoscopes for his friends and used them to give advice on how to make decisions (and who to work with). This one such example of these pseudo-scientific items. VG although previously folded....