20 May

Posted at 18:04h in Wild Hawthorn Press

Edinburgh: WIld Hawthorn Place, 1965
24 x 17cm, 10 internal sheets printed recto only plus card covers. Spiral bound. A collection of poems taken from Eric Satie's notes translated from the French by Johnson and illustrated by John Furnival. One work - PUSS IN THE CORNER - can be seen to be a "constellation" or visual poem relating the a cat stalking a mouse. Ratehr charming. One number of POTH - Poor Old Tired Horse Nr 9 - Finlay's poetry journal also included a couple of these poems but was published two years earlier than this more complete collection. This was officially the press' eleventh book.

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11 May

Posted at 10:20h in Page Works & Contributions

Sceaux: Cinquieme Saison, 1965
27 x 26cm folder with a typographic cover designed by Henri Chopin (who was also the publisher and editor) and content of bound in artworks by Francois Dufrene, Jean-Jacques Leveque. Gabriel Paris, Dora Feilane, Henri Chopin, Serge Beguier, Gianni Bertini, Francoise Saint-Thibault, Laura Sheleen, John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Les Aelys, Paul-Armand Gette, Alain Jouffroy, Jean-Clarence Lambert and Rodolfo Krasno. No record was included in this special number of OU released for the Biennale.
Finlay contributs one work which was not bound in but rather left loose in the pages so is often missing - STANDING POEM 2. (APPLE/HEART 2) from 1965. This is exactly the same card as the standing poem the Wild Hawthorn Press published and sold separately - one presumes Finlay just extended the print run.

One of 475 hand numbered examples on offset satin (after 50 de tete or Hors Commerce copies). One mark on cover and a diagonal crease but internally VG+ with VG++ Finlay card..

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15 Apr

Posted at 16:07h in Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides

Ardgay, Ross-shire; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1965
33 x 12cm, 8pp. The seventeenth number of Finlay’s poetry publication - this number dedicated to a single concrete poem by Robert Lax and with drawings by Emil Antonucci. VG+ condition Scarce.
This was an unusual format number of the poetry journal in part caused by the format of the Lax poem which needed more vertical space than traditional works.

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20 Mar

Posted at 13:55h in Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides

Ardgay, Ross-shire; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1965
26 x 21cm, 8pp. The sixteenth number of Finlay’s poetry publication with contributions by Pierre Albert-Birot (translated by Barbara Wright), Enrique Uribe, Francis Ponge (translated by D.M. Black), Ernst Jandl, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eli Siegel, Tristan Tzara (translated by John Adlard), Herman Hesse (translated by Lesley Lendrum), Barry Cole, Jonathan Williams, Edward Wright and Spike Hawkins. The entire number was designed by hand with woodcuts and hand-written typography by Edward Wright. VG+ condition Scarce.

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17 Mar

Posted at 19:09h in Jud Yalkut

NYC: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1965 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp. B/w offset leaflet for an USCO event (USCO stood for 'The Company of Us', a media arts collective which was formed by Gerd Stern, Michael Callahan, and Steve Durkee and of which Jud Yalkut was the experimental film maker) - the "mis-media performances" shown were Cathode Ray, HIGHFREETHRUUSAFEWAY, Y, Diffraction Film, Omix and Ghost Reve. The latter performance was choreographed and performed by Carolee Scheemann along with Phoebe Neville and shot by Jalkut. VG+. ...

16 Mar

Posted at 21:17h in Miscellany

Ardgay: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965
33 x 20.3cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press. Mentions books by Augusto de Campos, Turnbuil, Jonathan Williams, Edwin Morgan and others as well as POTHs and Finlay. Also notes the move from 24 Fettes Row, Edinburgh to Gledfield Farmhouse, Ardgay, Ross-shire. Former folds, some edge wear and a couple of small tears and some vintage ink annotations to the text else VG+.

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15 Mar

Posted at 18:09h in Artist's Postcards

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1965)
20.3 x 13cm, printed 1pp. Folded on both sides allowing the card to stand as intended. The inner images are of an apple in red with a black stalk which metamorphoses step by step into a heart. Alongside that graphical change the word LOVE slowly emerges also first with a l then LO then LOV then LOVE. On each step the letter shapes added have some similarities with the red apple shape changing - for example the V in love appears as the top of the round apple indents in a V shape as part of the way to the final image. This is then mirrored by a second exact group of images and text in parallel.
The previous standing card (Standing Card 1) involved a pear appearing and disappearing - here an apple has a similar fate. In a simple card expressing love is a depth of metaphor and physical similarities. Like much of the best of Finlay the work has multiple readings.
This is a scarce card - Murray in his flawed catalogue raisonne claims it as the third ever card published but it is more probably the fifth if one includes the earlier typescript from 1963 in this collection. VG+ condition.

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01 Mar

Posted at 19:03h in Jud Yalkut

NYC: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1965 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp. Mimeograph leaflet (typographic only) for this day of experimental films with projections from Herb Golzman, Lawrence Sacharow, Lenny Lipton, Donald Bolkman and Judd Yalkut. The day was organised by Jonas Mekas. This was one of Yalkut's first ever screenings of a work. VG....

26 Feb

Posted at 12:58h in Letters + Documents

20 x 12.5cm, typescript on yellow paper. A letter sent by Susan Swan to a potential client offering price lists and mentioning the "new series" of large prints or as Sue Finlay writes: "visual creations that fall into a visual category" that the press is publishing. "We hope they will eventually be a series representative of international contemporary visual and concrete poems." Signed in blue ink....

16 Feb

Posted at 21:10h in Miscellany

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965
Two 25 x 20.1cm, 1pp sheets stapled top left) offset lithographic price list for the Press. Mentions the various book and nrs of POTH plus prints including Pierre Albert-Birot. Franz Mon, Ferdinand Kriwet and John Furnival as well as Finlay. Each is 5/-. Former fold else and some red ink period notes on the first page else VG+.

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