Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, Summer 1983
Two 25.5 x 20.4cm, 1pp vintage xerox price list (as issued) for the Press stapled top left but specifically listing cards and books that Finlay regarded as related to the Little Sparta War. VG+.
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Little Sparta: WIld Hawthorn Press, 1981
30 x 21cm, 1pp green on cream paper - an announcement leaflet for visitors to Little Sparta noting exhibitions in the Garden Temple and "in the Garden". Visitors needed to write to the Press or call a telephone number. Formerly folded but VG+
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Little Sparta: WIld Hawthorn Press, 1981
10 x 21cm, 1pp green on cream "note for visitors" explaining that the Garden and the Gallery have no Arts Council grant or other state subsidy and warning them of possible raids by the Sheriff Officers of the Strathclyde Region. VG+.
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6 x 21cm, original vintage xerox which on one side has "THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF SHARES AS QUOTED ONN THE FORM DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE ALREADY AN EXISTING SHAREHOLDER" and on the other side an original (and as far as we know an unpublished piece of doggeral by Finlay:
"What is this life
if full of care
a po-faced look
is all we wear." The poemis of course a parody of W. H. Davies's poem Leisure which has the line "What is this life if, full of care,: We have no time to stand and stare.". We do not know the date of this item. Folded. Unique.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Summer 1973
Two 33 x 20.4cm, 2pp offset lithographic price list (now called a checklist) for the Press stapled top left. Mentions a long list of old and new publications from the Press with prices. Folded at the bottom for past storage else VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Summer 1973
Two 25.5 x 20.4cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press stapled top left. Mentions a long list of old and new publications from the Press with prices. Date is circled in red top right else VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Spring 1970
Six 25.5 x 20.4cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press stapled top left. Mentions a long list of old and new publications from the Press with prices. Various vintage annotations (probably by Sue Finlay) in blue ink indicating some items had sold out else VG+. With each passing year the size of these lists increased, of course, while the Press published new work and sold those items not out of print. VG+.
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Nottinghams: Tarasque Press, 1971
21 x 15cm, 1pp. Green on white offset lithographic subscription leaflet for the artist's book with Margot Sandeman. VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 1970)
10.5 x 5cm, 4pp (single double folded offset lithographic sheet printed red on white) to create a card. An announcing for one of the first object multiples issued by Finlay - here six different paperweights with engraved texts on each by Mary Stevens. The six all have the names of mostly different types of boat - The Gypsy Queen is a lugger, the Flower of the Fal is a schooner, the True Vine is a fifie, the Ruth is a smack, the Cairngorm is a clipper and the Purple Heather is also a smack. One is illustrated on the front of the card. VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Spring 1970
26.5 x 20.4cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press stapled top left. Mentions new publications - books, cards and prints and the prices. VG+.
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Sunderland: Coelfrith Bookshop, 1970
21 x 21cm, 1pp offset lithographic leaflet announcing the publication of Coelfrith 5 which is entirely dedicated to the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. The price of the signed and numbered copies was £2, unsigned 10/-. VG+.
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New Jersey: Sovereign American Arts Corp., n.d. (1970) Large format videotape - the original video mastertape for a film made by the US company - a 24 minute and 10 second interview with the artist and film of Stoneypath. In original pastic box with typed labels. Clearly unique and an amazing find....
Dunsyre: Sue Finlay, n.d.
5.5 x 8.5cm, b/w business card for Sue Finlay offering her services as a garden consultant. VG+.
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