Basel: STAMPA, 2001
21 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a Finlay solo show which has a photograph of a work CHORE, n. a small humdrum task: a prosaic task; a refuge which is carved on the handle of a broom.

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Langenbruck: Sculpture at Schoenthal Monestery, 2001
14.4 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with a b/w image of Little Sparta on the front taken by Jennifer Gough-Cooper. A photographic exhibition showing paths from Finlay's gardens and other grounds. Inside gallery details. VG+.

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London: Redfern Gallery, 2001
20,.4 x 21cm, 24pp plus card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue displaying Boulton's watercolours of two gardens - one being the Villa La Pietra in Florence and the other being Little Sparta. Colour images throughout. VG+.

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Edinburgh: Sick Kids Hospital, 2001
30 x 21cm, 32pp plus covers. The secret auction catalogue to raise funds for the hospital - the works were unlabelled but most were easily identified. The Robin Gillanders print from Little Sparta of the Wheelbarrow sculpture that is in this collection was purchased from this auction (as was a photograph of John Byrne). VG+.

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Koln: Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, 2001
21 x 15cm, 28pp plus printed transparent wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a major installation in a former church. Seven full sheet b/w photographs of the exhibition. Interview with Boltanski in German with Fried Mennekes. From the 90s Boltanski has sought to place exhibitions in religious buildings as well as museums. VG+.

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Koln: Kiunst-Station Sankt Peter Koln, 1994
55 x 42cm, 2pp broadside/poster. Exhibition handout which reproduces the main image for the exhibition and on the back an interview between Boltanski and Friedhelm Mennekes. Folded for storage (as issued) and VG+. This copy is signed in in above the interview by the artist.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
10.8 x 7.5cm, 16pp plus card covers and russet red/brown dust jacket with printed boat. Artist's book with six visual poems/amusing short texts by Finlay and drawings of barges by Gary Hincks.
Such as:
HOPELESS
Like looking for
a needle in
a stackie.

A stackie is a slang name for a working barge that usually carried cargo stacked up on its deck. Finlay has perverted for a joke the well known saying "Looking for a needle in a haystack." VG+.

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Edinburgh: Morning Star, 2001 16.5 x 9cm, 2pp printed pocket folder (with adhesive back) content of five, 14 x 6cm, 2pp bookmarks designed by Telfor Stokes, David Bellingham, Alex Finlay with Hans Waanders, David COnnearn and Thomas A. Clark. Object multiple issued on the occasion of the Bookshelves initiative. All VG in similar folder. Limitation not known....

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