Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
12.2 x 8cm, 4pp. Folding card with a drawing by Gary Hinks on the front which is in the style of the Edlich who used wood and other found objects in his cubist-like works. Here the drawing shows what looks like a found piece of wood with the word "JACOBIN" on it. One assumes Finlay felt that Edlich was somewhat Jacobin in his life. VG+.

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Byars, James Lee THEPERFECTSMILE Köln: Museum Ludwig, 1993 25 x 65cm, folded (8 panels) leporello printed gold on thick card. Text in German - the card is able to stand up without support. JOINT AS ISSUED Byars, James Lee THEPERFECTSMILE Köln: Museum Ludwig, 1993 5 x 8cm, 1pp business card with the text THEPERFECTSMILE printed gold on black inside 8 x 11 black custom envelope. JOINT 22.3 x 32cm, black unprinted envelope which contained both of the above items. All fine. ...

NYC: Michael Werner, 1993 19 x12cm, unpaginated (56)pp plus boards with tipped-on b/w reproduction of a work. The concise exhibition catalogue for two consecutive exhibitions in the Werner Gallery - the first being of works from the early part of Byars' career (with seven b/w illustrations) and, a second show of more recent “books” (which are usually sculptures) which are all displayed herein as eight full colour plates. ...

Frankfurt am Main: Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, 1993 65 x 49.5cm, red and black on white offset lithographic exhibition poster with one b/w photographic image above museum text. Folded for storage else VG+....

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
11.6 x 9.2cm, 16pp plus card covers and dust jacket with title label. A proposal for the Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh which consisted of seven bollards near a landscaped area each with two boat names and registration number etched on them one above the other to create seven short poems. Drawings by John Andrew and Gary Hincks. In the notes Finlay explains each poem and its Greek reference.

One sich poem is:

OLIVE
LEAF
BCK 210
SERENE
BF46

which creates an appeal for peace. Finlay notes a Shakespeare quotation "and peace proclaims olives of endless age".

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
18 x 14cm, 4pp brown outer folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:

AUTUMN.

The woods
milestones

The mountains

signposts.

Finlay indicates how the distant hills act as means of orientating a traveller and the trees act as steps on the way in any rural journey. VG+.

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