London: Coracle Press, 1979
21 x 19cm. 40pp plus card covers with tipped on self-portrait. First edition of William's photographs of poets and artists with reminiscences. There are 30 tipped in colour reproductions including William Carlos Williams, Myrna Loy, Herbert Read, Allen Ginsberg, David Hockney, Dorothy Brett as well as Ian Hamilton Finlay. One of 1800 numbered copies. VG+.
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Kassel: Freie Internationale Universitat, 1979 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with one of Beuys' blackboard text works on the front printed in green on white. Photography by Stenzel. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild HawthonePress, n.d. (1979)
12.5 x 7cm, 1pp, adhesive back ex libris slip. The design has an uncredited drawing of a cemetery island with crypt and the epigram by Finlay: "Superior Gardens are composed of Glooms & Solitudes and not of Plants & Trees." The work might be seen as a momento mori as well as a comment on Finlay's thoughts on how to create a successful and complex garden. Not in Murray.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1978)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. The painting on the front of a tank pushing through the undergrowth is entitled after Stalin's famous rhetorical question "How many divisions does the Pope have?" - only Finlay asks it of Arcady, the mythical rural utopia. This is one of a long number of momento mori by Finlay - the weapons of death have invaded Arcadia and soon all that my be left are ancient skulls.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1979)
10.8 x 7cm, 1pp, adhesive back ex libris slip. The design has an uncredited drawing of a Spitfire plane moving amongst searchlight. The text being a religious reference. The label was printed for an exhibition in the London V & A. Murray 7.19.
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London: Serpentine Gallery, 1979
15 x 21cm, 32pp plus card covers. Group show in the UK with the participation of Annette Messager, Anne & Ptrick Poiret and others as well as Boltanski. The latter exhibited Japanese Gardens I - V (large colour images created using models and constructed backgrounds). Two images reproduced (one in colour, one in b/w) and a short text in English. Sadly this catalogue has some contemporary notes made by a critic on a number of the pages but the images of the works are not found elsewhere to our knowledge.
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Groningen: Museum und Corps de Garde, 1979. Three sheets of black tissue paper mounted together to form the number "7". Folded size: 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Unfolded: 225 x 125 cm. Printed with the text "The Five Continent Documenta 7" printed offset gold. Very good condition. Very limited unnumbered edition. Please note that for this item we have used a stock photograph from other sources....
Göttingen: Stadtischen Museum am Ritterplan, 1979
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card on paper with b/w image of the drawing Filzplastik (1963) on the front. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys over the image. Verso publisher's details. VG+.
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NYC: Sonnabend 1979
10,5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed yellow and black. A mailed copy which was sent to Seriaal Verlag in Copenhagen by Boltanski (hand addressed) but it was mis-delivered and there is a a lot of post office markings, franks, writing and attached label on the back - but despite that it is still VG+.
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NYC: P.S.1., 1978
10,5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with the front in the artist's facsimile handwriting and verso gallery details. A mailed example hand addressed to M. Berg from Boltanski. VG+.
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NYC: Sperone Westwater Fischer, 1979
11.4 x 11cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for solo show of drawins. This is a mailed example with stamp, franking and typed address on the back - but overall VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979 19 x 13cm, closed envelope content of twelve tags (each with the word butterfly printed on them) and ties which are to be added to growing plants in a garden to flutter in the wind and hence metaphorically add butterflies to any plot. Drawing by George L. Thomson. VG....