Edinburgh: Morning Star Press/City Art centre, 1997
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for the release of a "stamp" album released as part of an exhibition "Imagined Lands: Postage Stamps for a Scottish Republic". On the front of the card is a tipped on original cinderella stamp designed by Finlay. The stamps themselves were a limited edition. This is a very scarce card. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.6 x 20.5cm, 4pp. A drawing by Jo Hincks of a fifie boat: East coast herring boats. Inside Finlay has a poem:

Lemons without bitterness. Diamonds
without riches. Tabernacles without
ministers. Trees without song.

Fifies

Lemons are the boats, diamonds the fish which sparkle, tabernacles being the shelter below deck and trees being the masts - simple metaphors for the fishing vessels. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997) 10 x 13.9cm, 4pp. Artist's postcard with two black and white photographs of a well known Edinburgh toy shop (on Lothian Road) and internally a text:

Atlantis, Xanadu, The Herspirides, Tar-na-nOg, Arcadia.
Gee Dees

The various places are all fictional and the Gee Dees are a well known model company - objects that are also fictional reflections of the original item. VG+. ...

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