Miscellany - Unoriginal Sins

17 May THE WILD HAWTHORN PRESS ANNOUNCES SEVERAL NEW FIRST EDITIONS. 1970. FIRST “ATTACK” ARTWORK?

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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Spring 1970
5.5 x 20.4cm, 1pp offset lithographic leaflet with an hilarious text pretending to promote "several first editions" of the Dancers Inherit The Party. This may be Finlay's first 'attack" artwork (later they were usually cards) where he calls out in an amusing manner Fulcrum Press and the Arts Council for the former's reprinting of his book and their mislabelling of it as a "first edition". Having asked the Arts Council to help in stopping this bad practice and receiving scant attention from them, Finlay also uses this leaflet to seek some revenge. The text sarcastically suggests that the new multiple "first editions" might include photographs of members of the Arts Council as additional material and include an essay "in which the author tries to show that it is possible to write on the subject of the Arts Council without resorting to obscenities. The edition will be limited to 15 copies, dedicated to Lord Goodman."
We had this in our hands for years, thought it just a leaflet promoting the original book and shamefully did not look in detail at it until now for this cataloguing. It is quite a find - probably, as we say, the first time Finlay used a publicly available publication to hit back at his enemies and those who slighted him or failed to live up to his opinion of how they should act.VG+.

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18 Apr XEROX COPY OF “IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: CONCRETE POET” FROM THE GLASGOW HERALD.

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30 X 42cm, 1pp b/w xerox copy of an article on Finlay by Douglas Eadie in the Glasgow Herald probably from the early 1970s. Three works are reproduced and one portrait of the artist.

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16 Mar WILD HAWTHORN PRESS PRICE LIST. SPRING 1970

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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Spring 1970
Two 25.5 x 20.4cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press stapled top left. Mentions a long list of new publications as the Press became more prolific including for the first time the artist's cards that Finlay began to favour as his most active area of publishing. Couple of vintage annotations in red ink indicating some items had sold out else VG+.

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24 Apr STUDENT. APRIL 24 1969.

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Edinburgh: Student, 1969
42 x 31cm, 8pp (self cover) - a tabloid newspaper published by students at the University of Edinburgh for students, which has a reasonably long double page article on Finlay and own work - "By persevering I have managed to get some things done". Two sculptural works and a print are reproduced in b/w. Manages to misspell Paolozzi (oh student journalists) but it's a reasonable article that recognises the artist and pet for what he is. VG although heavily browned and some minor rippling on the edges.

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16 Jun WILD HAWTHORN PRESS PRICE LIST. SUMMER 1967.

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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1967
34.5 x 17.4cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press. Mentions a long list of new publications as the Press became more prolific. By now the Press (and the Finlays had moved again and now to Dunsyre and Stoneypath Farm). Formerly folded twice else VG+.

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14 Apr SUSSEX OUTLOOK. BRIGHTON FESTIVAL SPECIAL ISSUE. 1967.

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Brighton: Sussex Outlook, 1967
44 x 32cm, 12pp(self cover) - a tabloid newspaper published by students at the University of Sussex, which was a special issue considering the events at the Brighton festival including the double page feature on the concrete poetry exhibition that Finlay figured so prominently in. Two works are repriuced black on white (Cythera and roSY fAr blacK and a lengthy and informed text by Nigel Maslin who quotes Finlay and Bann amongst others. Rare. VG+ although browned a bit over fifty years.

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17 Mar ORDER FORM FOR VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS FROM TARASQUE PRESS. 1967.

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21 x 15cm, 4pp. A publicity leaflet and order form for various publications which includes Finlay's Ocean Stripe Series 5. VG.

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07 Nov WILD HAWTHORN PRESS PRICE LIST. WINTER ’66/ ’67.

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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1967 21 x 15cm, 4pp offset lithographic price list for the Press. This is the first mention of the change of address as Finlays had just moved to Dunsyre and the Stoneypath Farm. Additional is a long list of new publications as the Press became more prolific. Sea Poem by Robert Lax, Vasarely's early print and other early books and standing cards such as 4 Sails are mentioned as well as POTHs. VG+. ...

18 Feb POETRY 66. 1966. A FAKE POEM BY FINLAY.

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Nottingham: Trent Book Shop, 1966
25.4 x 10cm, 6pp. Announcement and brochure for this small show of concrete poetry which showed works by dsh, Gael Turnbull, Jeff Nuttall, Hugh MacDiamidf, Bob Sobbing, Edwin Morgan, Jonathan Williams, John Furnival, Tom Clark, and others but NOT FInlay. There is a short poem reproduced which is ascribed to Finlay called “No Thank You, I Can’t Come” but was written by Simon Cutts which is a parody of the format of "Dancers inherit the party" and is a sly and funny dig at Finlay for not participating. VG although a former soft crease top left on the card. Very scarce.

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16 Oct WILD HAWTHORN PRESS PRICE LIST. AUTUMN 1965.

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Ardgay: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965
24.3 x 16.3cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press. Mentions books and poster prints and broadsides. Formerly folded else VG+.

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16 Mar WILD HAWTHORN PRESS PRICE LIST. SPRING 1965.

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Ardgay: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965
33 x 20.3cm, 1pp offset lithographic price list for the Press. Mentions books by Augusto de Campos, Turnbuil, Jonathan Williams, Edwin Morgan and others as well as POTHs and Finlay. Also notes the move from 24 Fettes Row, Edinburgh to Gledfield Farmhouse, Ardgay, Ross-shire. Former folds, some edge wear and a couple of small tears and some vintage ink annotations to the text else VG+.

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16 Feb WILD HAWTHORN PRESS PRICE LIST. FEBRUARY 1965.

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Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965
Two 25 x 20.1cm, 1pp sheets stapled top left) offset lithographic price list for the Press. Mentions the various book and nrs of POTH plus prints including Pierre Albert-Birot. Franz Mon, Ferdinand Kriwet and John Furnival as well as Finlay. Each is 5/-. Former fold else and some red ink period notes on the first page else VG+.

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