07 Apr

Posted at 19:11h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973
9 x 7.5cm, 12pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book with Simon Cutts where similar sentences as subtly changes each illusrated by Sydney McK Glen with a landscape vignette. The sentences are "I prefer the streams of the mountains to the sea"/"I prefer the street of the mountains to the sea"/"I prefer the streaks of the mountains to the sea"/"I prefer the straiks of the mountains to the sea". The last work straiks is an unusual one - a less used version of the word stroke. Each slight change to the sentence gives a different poetic image of the landscape.
VG+ although the cheap staples are showing some rust.

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04 Apr

Posted at 19:18h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973
15.2 x 11.6cm, 16pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book listing a series of forenames in facsimile of handwriting in red
The names are "Rufe Betty, Val, Tony, Kate, judy, Nick, Cherry, Jill, Jake, Nell, Emily, Zeke" which are all nicknames of world war aircraft.
"In the second half of 1942, a colorful set of code names was developed in the Southwest Pacific Theater by the Air Technical Intelligence Unit (ATIU) of the Allied Air Forces in Australia. The head of the unit, Captain Frank T. McCoy Jr. was from Nashville, Tennessee, and the first few code names were hillbilly names such as ZEKE, NATE, PETE, JAKE and RUFE, as they were simple, short and distinctive. The basic system spread rapidly, and by late 1942, was adopted for use by both the USAAF and USN. In general, the code names were assigned using the following system, although several exceptions exist:". Hence Finlay shows the various aircraft as a related family because of this familiar way of reference. VG+.
A 3 x 14cm, 1pp "bookmark" which has the name of the Press on it and a red circle - referencing the Japanese origin of these airplanes.

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03 Mar

Posted at 19:37h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973
21 x 13cm, 8pp - a sheet of white tissue paper folded once lengthwise, printed with text and drawings by an uncredited artist inserted in slightly larger blue sheet similarly folded. An ephemeral artist's book where butterflies are likened to Japanese aircraft suicide bombers and cherry blossom to other fighter craft. VG+. Scarce.

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20 Dec

Posted at 19:50h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
10.6 x 11.6cm, 24pp plus wrappers and pictorial dj - artist's book with ten concrete and visual poems and a frontispiece of a toy boat made by Finlay on the first end paper and also the dust jacket.

SHELF
sardines
pilchards
bottled ships

treats the tradition of making minature boats in bottles as if they are being preserved like tinned fish.
This is one of 350 copies each Signed and numbered by Finlay in ink at the back colophon. The date in some catalogue raisonne are given as 1971 but the colophon indicates with s Xmas publication in 1972.

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21 Aug

Posted at 12:33h in Artist's Books

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972
28 x 20cm, 58pp. Boards with printed title. An anthology of concrete poems (in part designed by Michael Harvey) with a section dedicated to sundials. This is the second US publication (After the Something Else Press publication the year before. This is one of 200 signed and numbered copies aside from the 1,000 unnumbered copies. VG+. ...

07 Aug

Posted at 20:00h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
7.5 x 7.5cm, 12pp plus wrappers and pictorial dj - artist's book with two drawings of triangles - one is denoted as a Sail, the other a sundial. Then tweo triangles are a schooner (a boat with two sails) and finally the numbers I - XII - is a fleet - presumably the boat numbers. Simply a visual pun based on the sundial,.
VG but the staples are somewhat rusted.

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07 Jul

Posted at 20:41h in Artist's Books

Göttingen: Verlag Udo Breger, 1971
15.5 x 15,5cm, 20pp plus pictorial wrappers. An artist's book with nine b/w photographic images of a fishing boat (by Diane Tammes) with the registration number KY 64 opposite a page with other fishing codes and boat names taken from the "Olsen Fisherman's Nautical Almanack" to create poems from the names. Finlay apparently also wished the name to bring to memory the poet Olson. VG_

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07 May

Posted at 20:50h in Artist's Books

NYC/Koln: Something Else Press, 1971,
157.5 x 12,5cm, 18pp (recto only) plus cover. An artist's book with silkscreens on thick card with interleaving pages and paper back cover (which is often missing because of its fragility). Three ring bindings. A series of visual and concrete poems by Finlay illustrated by Gordon Huntly. For example: 4 Sailing Drifters anre listed as Nobby, Nickey, Lily and Cloud - which Finlay finds an attractive grouping possibly just because of the vocalised rhythm. There is no real theme to the selection of works - this is indeed a "miscellany". One of 1,000 issued - this is in VG+ condition although the metal rings as always show flecks of rust.

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07 May

Posted at 20:32h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
15 x 11cm, 12pp (printed recto only with three silkscreened images on thick stock) plus wrappers and pictorial dj - artist's book with lovely colourful small drawings by Gardner above texts by Finlay. A brown sailed tall ship has the legend "An orchard of russets" above its appropriate name Appledore. A brown bottomed boat is a "Rococo walnut" because of its obvious seams, a fur tree is a "pinnate evergreen" which in turn is identified as the sea. One of 300 copies numbered and signed by Finlay on the colophon. VG+.

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07 May

Posted at 20:05h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
8 x 13cm, 12pp plus wrappers and pictorial dj - artist's book with two silkscreen images - the first is the text EVENING/SAIL in blue letters and the "/" in red - the second is the same but each letter but not the back slash replaced by blue dots. Typography and design by Michael Harvey. The disappearing letters indicating that the ship has gone home leaving only the mast to be seen far off on the horizon. A beautifully simple work which may also be seen as a momento mori much like the print "Evening wil come they sew the blue sale" - see elsewhere in the print section of this collection. One of 300 signed and numbered copies in VG+ condition.

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08 Mar

Posted at 10:14h in Artist's Books

NYC: Collier Macmillan, 1971
21 x 18.5cm, 48pp. Original boards and printed dust jacket. First edition. A collection of concrete and visual poetry anthologised from Finlay's other publications such as Rapel, Blue and Brown Poems and Stonechats amongst others. Different paper stocks and printings re-formated for this square shaped volume. Original dust jacket here has some closed tears but is overall VG with VG+ book. Scarce. ...

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