PAYMENT
We currently process orders online by PayPal. You do not need to have a PayPal account for your card to be processed securely.

If you would prefer to pay by Bank Transfer (for orders over £500 only), please place the order online and we will contact you to complete the transaction and issue an invoice if required.

SHIPPING
We aim to dispatch all orders within 24 to 48 hours.

We prefer to use Royal Mail “Signed and Tracked“ option where possible but for some larger or more valuable items we may insist on using direct priority couriers.

We charge flat rate shipping ( up to a certain weight or value) based on three zones:

£15
United Kingdom


£25
Europe and USA and Canada


£45
Rest of the World including Asia and South America


If your order contains only items listed under Cards & Ephemera the following discounted rates apply:

£7
United Kingdom


£18
Europe and USA and Canada


£20
Rest of the World including Asia and South America


PACKING
We try to keep costs down and we are also aware of the effects of packing on the environment.

Where possible we try to recycle packaging materials. If you require new pristine packing boxes/envelopes (say for a gift) then please let us know.

Large posters are usually rolled and sent in firm tubes - if you require flat packing for any large item then please let us know on ordering:in such cases, there may be a surcharge to cover the extra costs.

Other items are send in appropriate packaging.

INSURANCE
We will cover all shipments with full loss insurance up to £250. Thereafter a surcharge is needed.

We will consider sending items without full insurance but this is at the purchaser’s decision and risk. If you wish us to do this then please indicate in writing what you want us to do.





Unoriginal Sins is an established venture trading in the field of the contemporary and modern avant garde movements from 1900 to the present day. We have a vast inventory of books, documents, artworks, ephemera, object multiples, LPs and other digital media as well as representing major collections from significant artists.

We trade almost entirely online - we purchase new material all the time and offer regular clients email lists (which you can sign up to here) of new arrivals. Soon after the distribution of those lists, new items are placed online so it is worth returning regularly to this site to see what new things are for sale.

It may be possible to visit in person and see our inventory but that is by appointment only - please email us. We can supply references for new clients should that be required.

We are always looking for new material to add to our stocks - we have a desiderata here but we are interested in all material that is similar to our core interests. Do get in touch.
ANY QUESTIONS OR TO ARRANGE A VISIT:






UNORIGINAL SINS
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mail@unoriginalsins.com

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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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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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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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
7.6 x 23.8cm, 4pp card with a drawing of a boat by Gary Hincks. The reference is to Briton Riviere an Edwardian painter who often painted the "chaloupes" of the Breton sardine fishery (form of rowing boat with sails) - here the boat is marked with a boat registration "C". Finlay also made a wooden sculpture with this theme. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
23.7 x 23.2cm, 4pp. Folding card (one of the largest published by Finlay) with a drawing by Gary Hinks of falling leaves. The pattern of the leaves is an exact placement of the letters in the original Apollinaire Calligramme Il Pleut from 1918 where the words are allowed to fall like rain. This "variation" on the work is transposed to represent Fall when the trees shed their foliage. Released by Finlay as a Christmas card. VG+

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
5.2 x 18.6cm, 4pp, card printed which houses a 5.2 x 18.6cm, 1pp card with tipped on embroidered name tag (in red and white).
The tag reads: "TOM, DICK OR HARRY".

The card notes the boat names of drifters which being boys names are indeed "characteristic" as well as typical of the time. The phrase "Tom, Dick or Harry" is from an idiom - any Tom, Dick, or Harry", meaning anyone thus making the naming convention universal. This card is almost an object multiple but we have decided to retain it in this catalogue as an artist's card. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997) 6.6 x 6.8cm, 4pp. Artist's postcard a drawing by Gary Hincks of smoke stacks from boats each with a number.

A poem internally reads:

Waves endless
Numbers numberless


Waves numberless
Numbers endless

VG+. ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997 11.5 x 12.8cm, 4pp card with a drawing of a Zulu boat by Gary Hincks. The sails of the ship are black (reflecting the name of the type of boat). Internally Finlay has two texts:

ZULU
Feathers
of cloud
at the masthead

and

Feathers
of foam
at the waist.

The top and bottom of the moving ship show similar features. VG+.

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