London: Victoria Miro, 1990
21 x 15cm, 520pp. Original wrappers. Cover with an illustration of Sea Poppy 1. A publisher's/dealer's catalogue listing the printed works available by Finlay with prices. VG+.
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Paris: Foundation Cartier, 1987 21 x 15cm, 28pp plus card covers and printed grey dust jacket. Photobook with nine full colour photographs of Little Sparta which have less emphasis on the works but more the views and countryside foliage. Minimal text. VG+. Scarce....
London: Reaktion Books, 1985
28 x 21cm, 318pp plus boards and dust jacket. Hardback first edition of one of the largest of Finlay monographs. Texts by Abrioux and introductory notes and commentaries by Stephen Bann with over 370 illustrations, 68 in full colour and 19 in two colours. With by Stephen Bann. Slight wear to dj else VG+.
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London: Reaktion Books, 1985
28 x 21cm, 318pp plus card covers. Paperback first edition of one of the largest of Finlay monographs. Texts by Abrioux and introductory notes and commentaries by Stephen Bann with over 370 illustrations, 68 in full colour and 19 in two colours. With by Stephen Bann. Slight wear to spine else VG+.
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San Francisco North Point Press, 1982
22.5 x 15cm, 186pp plus card covers. First edition of this Jonathan Williams' selected essays on poet which include Charles Olson, Mina Loy, Lorine Neidecker, Bucky Fuller, Lyle Borge, Aaron Siskind and Ian Hamilton Finlay "Being a wee introduction to the Scot's Poet". VG+.
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N.p. (Paris): Hazan, 1977
21 x 15cm, 48pp plus card covers. An early monograph on Finlay from a fellow poet - here with many works illustrated in b/w photographs and reproduced drawings and poems. This was the first book in French to be dedicated to Finaly's oeuvre and Edeline is one of the first to try to tease out the various themes in Finlay's work. The subtitlEs which means Gnomics and Gnomonics refers to obscure meanings and sundials. VG+.
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21 x 15cm, 4pp German textual supplement to the book.
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Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1976
18 x 13.5cm, 12pp plus card covers. A short essay on the title work by Stephen Scobie. VG+.
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Wisconsin: The Beloit Poetry Journal, 1966
21 x 14cm, 40pp plus pictorial wrappers. Single number of this long running Chapbook which here dedicates itself to the concrete poets. Works by all the leading figures including Gomringer, de Campos, dsh, Gerhard Ruhm, Poierre Garnier, Edwin Morgan and Robert Lax amongst others are joined by Finlay - who has three page works including a schematic redrawing of his 4 Sails standing poems which as best we know is not reproduced elsewhere. The cover is also a glass work by Finlay - Rock Wave. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Extra Verse, 1965
205 x 12.8cm, 20pp. Original card covers. A single special number of this literary journal - a long essay by Robert Tait and several works by Finlay reproduced. One of the earliest of discussions of Finlay in print. VG.
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London: The Builder, n.d. (1964)
17.5 x 21cm, 52pp. Oversize printed orange wrappers. A single number of this remarkably on point small journal which has here essays on dsh, John Furnival, Henri Chopin, David Hockney (all with illustrations) and Ian Hamilton Finlay who has contributed two works in b/w and there is an uncredited portrait drawing of the poet. One article of note is dsh's translation of Garnier's 'Spacialist Manifesto' which Chopin responds to.
Sadly the inner text block has come away from the wrappers but this is a rare and very early item.
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