Kõln: Salon Verlag, 1999
17 x 12cm, 32pp. plus slightly oversize wrappers. There are 30 b/w portraits of young men and women in their teens placed on a graph-lined back ground and their dates of birth with a space for their later death dates. One of 1000 numbered copies.VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7 x 8.5cm, 12pp plus printed card covers. Artist's book which is printed in green in one direction (Orchard) and once turned around is orange in the other (Larder). The words in both directions are APPLE, PEAR, CHERRY, PLUM, TREE and APPLE, PEAR, CHERRY, PLUM, JAM. The former is denoted as the "Inauguration of the orchard, Little Sparta, Autumn 1999" and the latter "Replenishment of the larder, Little Sparta, Autumn 1999". A small delight. VG+.
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Paris: Maison Levanneur, 1999
19 x 19cm, 2pp announcement card for a posthumous show and a resulting monograph "Perfect is my death word" - with a full colour portrait of Byars in a huge red cloak on the front, verso gallery details. VG+. ...
Lubeck: Overbeck-Gesellschaft, 1991
21 x 10cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduction of VENTOSE from 19991 on the front. Verso gallery details. VG+.
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Eindhoven: October Foundation, n.d. (1999)
15 x 10.5cm, 2PP. Announcement card for the limited lithographic print by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Cornelia Wieg. Image of the work in colour on front. VG+
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
15 x 10.7cm, 2pp, black on white card with a text:
l'invitation
de ce grand
espace blanc
Beken of Cowes was a photographer who specialised in marine photograph in the Solent and around the Isle of Wight. The "invitation to a large white space" is from a letter by Stephan Mallarme - one of the most important of concrete poets who used space to make meaning in his works. The comparison between the poet's work and the photography of seascapes is at the heart of this work. VG+
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Glasgow: Wax366, 1999
13.5 x 8.8cm, 12pp plus printed wrappers. String bound. Artist's book with four two-line poems.
For example
shellac-sealed
meadow-saffron
One of a small limitation - this example signed on the last page. VG+.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 1999
10 x 4cm, 16pp plus printed covers. Artist's book which reproduces eight line drawings of sycamore smara (the lobed seeds of the tree which fall to the ground in a spiral manner). A visual poem by the Scottish artist. This copy is signed in pencil on the last blank page. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
11.5 x 8.6cm, 8pp, plus card covers and printed blue dust jacket. Three appropriated drawings of named boats by Gloria WIlson from as book published by Fishing News are printed below their names and a short paragraph describing the,. The names together read "PROSPERITY/LEAD US 11/AND GALILEE" which Finlay relates to both the life of Jesus and the Romantic poet Christina Rossetti who wrote many devotional texts.
The title "A WILD HAWTHORN RE-READER" alludes to the appropriation of another's work and a re-interpretation of it.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
6.3 x 6.3cm, 4pp, printed black on blue. A drawing of an American warplane is joined by Finlay's poem internally:
Model
Port aileron down,
Starboard aileron up,
Slight left rudder -
Now it should fly straight!
Finlay describes a way in which an actual plane might guide itself through the air but at the end of the poem one realises the description is really the last alteration of the parts of the model he has just built. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999 17.7 x 14.7cm, 20pp plus boards with tipped on title label. Internally there are four b/w photographs of stone walls and a wooden wall in close up - each with a name of a type of boat below. The boat name shows an association with the construction of each wall. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
7.3 x 7.3cm, 4pp, printed black on blue. A drawing of a cherry stone being flicked away by a finger is on the front. On the back Finlay notes that the German flying bombs, FZG 76, V-1 or doodle bugs were codenamed "Kirschkern" - which means cherry stone. These were rocket propelled and once launched there was no control of the missile - much as one find a flicked cherry stone when sent away in such manner. VG+
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