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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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
12.6 x 5.6cm, 4pp card which reads:
plover
plower
and an arrow that indicates the date "spring 98" inside the card.
The card describes a country scene from the early year.
This card has "love from Ian" written in pencil by Finlay on the back of the card. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10 x 14.6cm, 1pp card which reads:
bread-and-butter
carvel or clinker
pan or plain
The first two alternatives are choices between hull types, the last a choice between ways of making bread in Scotland (which refers back to the first of the pairings. By the way plain bread is much nicer than the pan. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
9.2 x 12.6cm, 4pp card with a colour photograph of a collection of marine artefacts collated by Robert Callender. The title of the card being a double meaning of both good news and of items found at low tide. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
5.4 x 13.4cm,8pp card (concertina folded from the top) with three drawings of battleships by Gary Hincks. The three are Ajax, Exeter and Achilles. These were the three ships that attacked the German Graf Spee at the Battle of Little Plate and while losing the battle in many ways, forced the larger ship to flee under smoke. The attack was herioc and Finlay compares the attack to Greek attacks in the Iliad where Ajax and Achilles are main characters. VG+.
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London: Anthony d'Offay, 1998
15 x21cm, 4pp typographic announcement card for a solo exhibition. VG+
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
10.5 x 7.6cm, 4pp card which reads
doves
dhows
distance
dhows
drifting
doves
On the back of the card Finlay explains "A winter scene is set down in six words, two of which occur twice." A dhow is a middle eastern boat.VG+.
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Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1998 21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for the signing event for the artist's book Ensembles. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
5.5 x 21cm, 1pp typographic card which reads PLOUGH-RED/HARROW-RED/LOEB-RED. The farming of the land is compared with the bright red dust cover colour of the "Loeb" edition of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, poems that deal with agriculture . VG+.
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