Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
11.6 x 26cm, 2pp artist's card with an attractive colour photograph by Pia Maria Simig of a model boat (presumably one of Finlay's) on a river or lake with the bank behind. The title of the card suggests this was a pleasant moment and in some ways perfect. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
14.6 x 6.6cm, 1pp artist's card with two diagrams based on a pair of blue and red parallel stripes. Finlay indicated the first is really a hull even thought it may look like a blue/white/red flag. This is in fact a diagram of a Plimsoll line - which allows an observer to estimate the amount of ballast and the depth of the boat from the outside.
The second is indicated to be a flag not a hull - the colours have not changes but now represent the flag of a country - perhaps Columbia where may international ships are registered for tax reasons. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.7 x 7.8cm, 4pp artist's card printed black on white with a line drawing by Gary Hincks of a rudder. Internally there is a Finlay poem:

sanding a rudder
sawing a rudder
painting a rudder
patching a rudder
sealing a rudder
shipping a rudder
writing a rudder

The poem touches on all aspects of how a rudder might be made - that is, the way in which the unmade wood is guided into being a rudder. And at the end the final line refers to the foregoing - how to describe (write about /textually guide the way it is made) eight lines. Very self-referential. This work is dedicated by Finlay to Graham Rich and Ian Stephen, two friends who made much of their work about the sea and boats. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
22.5 x 12.4cm, 2pp artist postcard with an abstract painting by Gary Hincks of a rudder with the pintles very apparent- the outer shape of the rudder shown in dashed lines. The wooden strappings (which add strength to the structure) are coloured and more apparent. Those strappings not only guide the wood on the rudder (in themselves causing directionality like the rudder) but also a maze like image where any path is guided by the blue bars. A visual self-reference. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
12.7 x 22.6cm, 2pp artist postcard with an abstract painting by Gary Hincks of a Coble - a flat-bottomed fishing boat. The name Coble sounds very much like cobble and both share a characteristic of being roughly made and placed next to each other to form a shape (this is how a Coble hull is made - lengths of wood overlapping - which is shown in the painting with the red and blue stripes". VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph by Pia Maria Simig (PMS) of one of Finlay's boat models. On the back the card reads:
MFV
iHF, PMS
WHP
Obviously the names of model maker and photographer and the publisher are abbreviated and so is "Motor Fishing Vessel". Finlay obviously enjoying the game of every aspect of the card being reduced to capital letters. VG+.

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Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 1977
30 x 21cm, 16pp (self cover). Exhibition catalogue for a show of artist's books curated by Simon Cutts, Erica Cutts and John Janssen. Nine of Finlay's books are included and illustrated in the catalogue. Punched as issued for storage else VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a colour photograph by Robin Gillanders of a sculpture by Jo Hincks of three lemons in a bowl but each is painted blue and has a boat number on it. Finlay has often used the shape of lemons to indicate a boat and here in a bowl they are representative of being in a harbour.
This card has a hand-written note from Finlay (to Janet Boulton) which says "Don't know if you saw this before? Love Ian" in blue pen. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
88 x 63cm, black silkscreen on white paper - the image by Ron Costley is of the prow of a boat with the usual ballast level markings in the form of Roman numerals staggered to indicate the leading edge of the ship. At the bottom is the word PROEM in similar typography. A proem is a preface or preamble to a book or speech - thus the drawing of the front of the boat is a preamble to the larger work - the vessel.
This is one of a pair of prints both drawn by Costley - the other being a line drawing of the boat's prow with the same title. Only 150 examples of each were printed. VG+.

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Glasgow: Wax366, n.d.
10 x 14.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with texts from Colin Sackett on both sides where the words are run together without spaces and in lower case. One is:
THESEHAVEBEENPROCESSEDINORDERTOBENOTASIFSCRIBED
and the other
SMALLALLBIRDSBIRDSALLFLYINGFLYINGFROMUOSMALLFROMUP

VG+.

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