Paris: Editions Galilee, 1981
21.5 x 13.7cm, 174pp plus card covers. A novel by the French author which has an original collage on the front by Boltanski. Annie Lauran was the pseudonym of Myriam Boltanski - the artist's mother! - a fact that was hidden until 2015. VG+.
Reference: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 150.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
20.3 × 16.5cm, black on lilac printed outer folder with title content of a single 20.3 × 16.5cm offset lithograph printed black on blue laid paper with the word "SYMBOLISME".
One of Finlay's innovative colour paper prints (in fact the third such published) where the medium utilised is as important as the printed words, this is a visual poem in some sense that the paper colour of the inner sheet is associated with the out of fashion painterly movement as well as the sea. Moreover - Finlay emphasises a parallel between the memorial graves of dead sailors that have never been found and the death of symbolism which often used death and water as major themes.
Later a public work based on this metaphor was built in the the medieval garden of the Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame.

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