Glasgow: Wax 66/CDLA, 2025 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard reproducing one of Fiinlay's artist postcards of the same name (Boatshelf with a drawing by Gary Hincks) as a celebration of Finlay's anniversary of his birth reissued by David Bellingham. VG+. ...
Edinburgh: Museums Of Scotland, 2025 14 x 14cm, 2pp commercial art postcard displaying a stone sculpture by Finlay. VG+. ...
Edinburgh: Museums Of Scotland, 2025 21 x 14.5cm, 2pp commercial art postcard displaying a stone sculpture by Finlay. VG+. ...
Edinburgh: Museums Of Scotland, 2025 14.5 x 21cm, 2pp commercial art postcard displaying a stone sculpture by Finlay. VG+. ...
Edinburgh: Museums Of Scotland, 2025 21 x 14.5cm, 2pp commercial art postcard displaying a duotone image of a younger Finlay with some of his hand-made toys. Verso museum details. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Little Sparta Trust, 2006 10.5 x 14.8cm, 4pp. A posthumous Christmas card from the Trust with an image of the Little Fields stone wall installation seen through the branches of a red berried bush - framing the scene like a Xmas wreath. VG+. ...
Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2006
19 x 8cm, 2pp card. This is the memorial card given out at the public memorial service for Ian Hamilton Finlay in Greyfriars Kirk. The front of the card reproduces a painting of flowers called HOROLOGE DE FLORE - which is a flower clock. Time having run out for the poet. This is, to our mind, the last of the "official" cards released by the Press although some were released posthumously as part of exhibitions or as fund=raising efforts. VG+.
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17 x 12.3cm, 1pp card. Printed blue on white this is a later printing in card form of an early Finlay poem.
THE BOAT'S
inseparable ripples
The poem was one of the first two-word poems first considered in 1967 but this is almost certainly a posthumous reprint of the work but we do not know exactly the date. It was perhaps printed for a posthumous exhibition of Finlay's work. Until we identify it we will place it as an artist's postcard work.VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
4.4 x 7.5cm, 4pp, Artist's card issued as a Christmas card - names of five boats Christina-11, Christmas Rose, Columbus, Corina-II and Conucopia and their port registration symbols are reproduced from a list elsewhere. The name of Christmas Rose is highlighted in pink. Other Xmas cards and prints have emphasis this boat as a symbol of the festive season. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
9.4 x 12cm folded, 4pp artist's postcard with a drawing by Gary Hincks after a work by Walter Langley on the front and a poem by Finlay internally:
BOY IN A FIELD
He sprawls
on the grass
a boat
in his hand,
his big flung-down
felt hat
another.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
12.6 x 2.7cm, 4pp, black on orange card with internally four Finlay poems each considering aspects of a fishing village and community - such as:
CHANGE OF USE
rain-filled
September boats
becoming ponds
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000
8 x 17.9cm, 4pp artist's card with a landscape drawing by Gary Hincks. Internally there is a poem by Finlay:
THE OTHER WAY TO EDINBURGH
(Farmsteads, streams,
serious woods),
the rainstorm's portcullis
closes the view.
One of a number of such cards with detailed illustrations of poems, in the same dramatic style, by Hincks all published in the same year. Finlay's reference to the rainstorm's portcullis is the raging rain coming down in sheets that look like vertical lines on the horizon. VG+.
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