Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
18.9 x 29.8cm, red and black on cream offset lithograph. The text "YOU CANNOT STEP INTO THE SAME RIVER/REVOLUTION TWICE" allows two readings of the statement - first the famous Hereclitian statement comparing the flow of a river that isnever is the same with any point in history . And then FInlay's bold assertion here that that is also true of all revolutions. . VG+.

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Paris: Flammarion, 1994
27 x 26cm, 192pp plus boards and colour pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this extensive monograph with over 200 illustrations of which 50 are in colour. Essays and interview by Lynn Gumpert. VG+.

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Six different 24x14 cm thin sheets of wood veneer with the formula 4 * 5 = 20! in Byars’ starry writing using red ink. A unique work - mounted in a glass and wooden frame. Please note: this work is found reproduced on some other dealer's websites despite the fact we have owned it for over 12 years, exhibited it publicly and have asked them to take it down!...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994)
10.5 x 4.1cm, 2pp. Artist's card in the form of a bookmark where on one side a list of trees which are supposedly "clinker built" where in boats the edges of hull planks overlap each other are found on one side and on the other the list of trees are supposedly "carvel built" where in boats the edges of hull planks are laid edge to edge often with an underlying structure. Finlay finding visual correspondences between the construction methods of the dead tree parts (planks) and the look of the living trees. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
10.8 x 10.4cm, 16pp plus patterned boards. The proposal here takes the form of a photograph of the site with a pull back tipped on flap that shows the landscape without the lake side temple and when pulled aside one can see the proposed building. Saint-Just was termed the "Angel of Death" by his opponents during the Terror because he was often the delegate who announced the name of those to be arrested (and often killed) at the National Assembly. Apollo is the Greek god of amongst other things justice. Both might be regarded as being capable of severe judgement. Photomontage by Peter Rogan.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994) 13.5 x 7.2 cm, 12pp plus card covers. Artist's book which has four one-line poems (one per page) thus:

the simplicity of sackcloth

the self-effacement of sackcloth

the aspiration of sackcloth

and

the REVOLUTION of sackcloth.



The lowly fabric (traditionally made out of goats hair) is cast by Finlay in its place but by the fourth line is allowed to turn against its oppressors. A reference to the French and other revolutions. VG+. ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994) 12.2 x 8.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Gary Hincks on the front. Internally there is a poem by Finlay: <BR><BR> HOSTA FLOWER<BR><BR> An old summer dress<BR> shared by sisters<BR> its purple faded<br> to lavender, fitting<BR> no-one, a thousand<BR> times in the wash<BR><BR> The Hosta Flower is the Plantain lily which invaded America in the 1800s from Asia. Finlay sees the colour as reminiscent of the faded colours of poor families. VG+....

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994) 8.4 x 6.2cm, 4pp artist's card with a concrete poem internally:


The words:
linen coif in the shape of a cloud l'Ecole re Pont-Aven Hommage a Emile Bernard are placed in the shape of a cloth bonnet with the side ties.
BR> Emile Bernard was a post-impressionist painter who often took Pont-Aven as his source for landscape and town paintings. A linen coif was a bonnet (originally for both sexes but latterly only women wore them)., ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1994) 5.5 x 14.8cm, 4pp artist's car with a text 'Schooner, sail your snows to the Pole." in the middle pages. A monostich is a one-line poem. Here the schooner's sails are being compared with snow because of their colour - and the pun of the word "Pole" indicates a double meaning of the sails being hoisted to the masts. VG+....

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