London: Serpentine Gallery, 1998
21 x 10cm, 4pp. Announcement card for the major installation at the entrance to the Serpentine Gallery with images of the stonework at the entrance and one of the tree plaques. VG+.
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21 x 20cm, 1pp xerox copy of two letters to the Scotsman with the headline " SAINT-JUST'S SCOTTISH CONNECTION" . the first letter from Hamish Henderson after noting a document that directly links Saint-Just to Scottish affairs of the 1790s but goes on to scoff at the idea that Finlay is a Nazi. The other letter is from Alexander Stoddart on behalf of the Saint-Just Vigilantes again in support of Finlay. This was a xerox copied by Finlay and distributed to friends and supporters in his regular mail-outs as was his habit.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 1998
12 x 11.2cm, 4pp folded card to create a small book. On the front the word LEAVES has been hand-typed by Bellingham and inside the alphabet with the word TREE replacing the letter C.
Bellingham did an unspecified number of these works by hand - a very early concrete poetry work. Signed on the back in pencil. A very early work by the artist. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.5 x 21.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Gary Hincks of the long line of hooked lines (called a spray) used in Thonier French fishing. The image also has the overall look of water spraying. This card has a lengthy ink note from Gary Hincks to Janet Boulton (both Finlay collaborators) pointing out the work is a "twin" of her work "Thonier". Hincks writes: "it is a rod with lines and hooks from the Breton "Thonier: (tuna fishing boat). The rod is raised - as here when sailing out to the fishing grounds." VG+.
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London: Serpentine Gallery, 1998
21 x 14cm, 2pp. Invitation card for a major installation at the entrance to the Serpentine Gallery. The commission is a circular ground work at the entrance (as well as a garden installation on benches and tree plaques). The work is illustrated on the front. VG+.
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London: Serpentine Gallery, 1998
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Letter from Julia Peyton-Jones addressed to Finlay's collaborator Janet Boulton inviting her to the celebration for the installation. VG+.
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Wein: Herbert Winter, 19978
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement card for a Finlay solo show printed blue on white. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
11 x 14cm, 2pp artist's card with a painting by Janet Boulton reproduced on the front. The title notes the similarities of a boat to a lemon (something often noted by Finlay) and the cargo here is a mass of oranges. VG+.
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NYC: Bound & Unbound/Leslie Tonkonow, 1998 30.8 x 21.4cm, blue on white small poster for a group show where all of the items were designed to rot or disappear over time - included work by James Lee Byars, George Maciunas, Dieter Roth, Andy Warhol, Alison Knowles, General Idea, and others. Folded twice for storage else VG....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.5 x 13.5cm, 1pp black on blue card which refers to a Vickers-Supermarine Walrus "evoked in W F. Jackson Knight's Aenid" as an oarage of wings. The image is that of how oars move in the water looking similar to wings. The airplane was a reconnaissance biplane that could land on water and Montague writes of the oarage of the wings of a great bird. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
11 x 8cm, 8pp plus card covers. Artist's book with two poems by Finlay that share a similar structure:
willow
dogwood
daylily
azalea
hiding
and
daisy
foxglove
harebell
dog-rose
presencing
The first list of plants are all cultivated, the second list is made up of plants that are usually regarded as weeds or wild. Finlay in a note directs us to C.R. Carswell's Life of Robert Burns, page 452 - where while Burns is dying:
"And though it was too late in the year for some of his favourite plants to be in blossom, she and the boys found daisies and foxgloves and harebells and some late dog-roses." which account for the second list of flowers. VG+....
London: Victoria Miro, 1988
29 x 15.5cm, opens to 20 x 31cm, 16pp (single folded sheet). First of the gallery’s intermittently printed journal here with items and images from Abramovic and Ulay, Ackling, Blakes, Alan Charlton, Ruckreim, Tuttle and Ian Hamilton Finlay. VG+. Scarce.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
8.2 x 8.9cm, 4pp card which has a drawing on the front of torpedo tubes from a battleship which are labeled "pan-pipes" because of the similarity in the shape of both things. VG+.
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