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Unoriginal Sins is an established venture trading in the field of the contemporary and modern avant garde movements from 1900 to the present day. We have a vast inventory of books, documents, artworks, ephemera, object multiples, LPs and other digital media as well as representing major collections from significant artists.

We trade almost entirely online - we purchase new material all the time and offer regular clients email lists (which you can sign up to here) of new arrivals. Soon after the distribution of those lists, new items are placed online so it is worth returning regularly to this site to see what new things are for sale.

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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".

VG+. ...

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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Torino: Castello Di Rivara, 1993
11.7 x 8.6cm, 4pp typographic announcement card for an exhibition with portrait of the artist on front, internally gallery details. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
18.5 x 12.2, 4pp. Folding card with a reproduced colour painting by Gary Hincks on the front which is a wild rose. The date 1794 was an important year in the French revolution as it not only saw the death of Danton by degree but also the Law of 22 Prairial where Robespierre centralised his unofficial dictatorship over the country by removing rights of defendants when accused of sedition or slandering the state. The wild rose for Finlay (which here has a bud alongside a fully opened flower) is signifying the wild actions of the Committee for Public Safety but also the potential of the revolution (which ultimately failed like most and returned France to the monarchy then Napoleon's despotism). This "definition" was used by Finlay in other works including a limited edition vase for wild flowers. VG+.

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Lausanne: Musée Canonale des Beaux-Arts, 1993
21 x 14 m. 62pp plus original typographic wrappers. Artist's book listing all of the deaths for a year (organised by day) in the Swiss Canton. Boltanski always notes that he chose Swiss people (although this was released in Switzerland as part of the exhibition Les Suisse morts in 1993 in Lausanne) because of their association with peace and the fact that their deaths were usually not caused by trauma.
This copy is one of 50 signed and numbered copies - on the last page in blue ink by Boltanski. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
18.5 x 10.6, 4pp. Folding card with a reproduced colour painting by Gary Hincks on the front which is of a yellow wild flower. The definition of a Wildflower is given by Finlay as "A Mean Term between Virtue & Revolution". The word "mean" has two meanings here - an averaging or the synthesis of the two ideas of virtue and revolution and/or the effects of the themes of virtue and revolution causing chaos and unpleasantness (which is a mild way of describing The Terror). VG+

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Edinburgh: European Art Festival, 1993
24.5 x 17cm, 80pp and cover. Exhibition catalogue for a major public exhibition of light works which took place in Edinburgh. Finlay installed a huge neon work on the top of the Government's St Andrews House - the work was EUROPEAN HEADS but the word HEADS is upside down as if fallen and decapitated. Illustrated in colour. The glue binding has come loose else VG.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992 9 x 7cm, 4pp (single folded sheet of card). The text which is embossed (raised) on this card to keep it white like snow reads:

SWANS IN WINTER

Snow on
the snow of
their wings

One of the most beautiful of the Xmas cards and very scarce. VG+ condition....

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992 11.8 x 9cm, 36pp plus grey boards. An artist's book with descriptions of unrealised sculptural works designed to be placed in a garden (arcadia).
For instance:
The word FRAGILE in Roman letters, on a formal stone placed upright by the foot of a birch tree."

A birch has bark that is very easily removed - and even peels from weathering - hence it may be regarded as fragile. The Roman civilisation lasted for centuries but self-destructed very quickly in c. 480 AD. - and may also despite its long history be also regarded as fragile due to its own internal contradictions.
One of 250 such books printed as Christmas gifts by the Press. VG+.

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