Edinburgh: Sick Kids Hospital, 2001
30 x 21cm, 32pp plus covers. The secret auction catalogue to raise funds for the hospital - the works were unlabelled but most were easily identified. The Robin Gillanders print from Little Sparta of the Wheelbarrow sculpture that is in this collection was purchased from this auction (as was a photograph of John Byrne). VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
10.8 x 7.5cm, 16pp plus card covers and russet red/brown dust jacket with printed boat. Artist's book with six visual poems/amusing short texts by Finlay and drawings of barges by Gary Hincks.
Such as:
HOPELESS
Like looking for
a needle in
a stackie.
A stackie is a slang name for a working barge that usually carried cargo stacked up on its deck. Finlay has perverted for a joke the well known saying "Looking for a needle in a haystack." VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000
15.2 x 21.4cm, 48pp plus red patterned boards. Artist's book with eighteen b/w photographs by Robin Gillanders ofone of the small sections of Little Spartas which Finaly denoted as Huff Lane - in part a joke about being somewhere to go and sit when feeling aggrieved ("In the huff" as Scots say.
Along the lane are five low benches inscribed with epigrams such as:
"A lane cannot be measured in metres"
This line may be related to another bench:
"In a lane one will not encounter Apollo but one may come upon Pan."
The former is a punny musical reference (Pan after all plays the pipes) and a lane is usually shadowed from the sun but also it has music from nature:
"A song of a skylark may return us to Shelley, a lane may lead us back to Clare."
Both Shelley and Clare are romantic poets.
GIllander's photographs are also of flowers found during the (very) short walk.
One of 300 such books published for Christmas 2000. VG+. Finlay gives Pia Simig a credit for being part of the conceptual idea.
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Standard Sony FX cassette audio tape in standard box and handwritten label. A recording of the BBC Scotland programme made for Finlay's 70th birthday in 2000. Unplayed.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000
18.5 x 18.7cm, unpaginated (132pp) plus boards. A catalogue raisonne of Finlay's postcards which in part is one of the few sources to date cards after 1994. One hundred reproductions of such cards. Issued at the time of a travelling exhibition initially at the Haus Hartmann, Grevenbroich 2000. VgG....
Belper: Aggie Weston's Editions, 2000
21 x 15cms, 16pp, plus cards covers. An anthology of poetry chosen by Simon Cutts which includes Finlay's CASTLES, a traditional form poem. VG+.
JOINT:
30 x 21cm, 1pp signed typed letter from Stuart Mills to Paul Robertson offering copies of Star?steer and Sea Poppy 1 as the publisher/poet is in need of a new computer. Folded else VG+
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Edinburgh: Morning Star, 200
13.5 x 10cm, 32pp plus COVERS. Artist's book in the form of a faux passport contributions by Finlay, Alex Finlay, Simon Patterson, Lawrence Weiner, Donald Evans, David Faithfull as well as others. Each page is in the form of actual rubber stamp impressions in black, red and blue from stamps designed by the artists. One of 750 copies produced but this is surprisingly hard to find. VG+
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Bielsko-Biala: Galeria Bielsko, 2000
19.5 x 21cm, 132ppl plus blue boards. Exhibition catalogue for a show of artist's postcards by Finlay from the collection of Stanislaw Drozdz. Essay by Piotr Rypson. Many card reproduced in colours. There is a glossery at the back translating many of the English words on the cards into Polish. VG+.
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30 x 21cm, full colour high quality inkjet reproduction of a photograph of Finlay collaborator Janet Boulton alongside three of her paintings of Finlay toy and one large Ian Hamilton Finlay model boat. Taken at an unknown exhibition. From Boulton's personal archive. ...
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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London: Pump House Gallery, 2000
15.5 x 10.3cm, printed brown envelope content of Sweet Pea Early Multiflora Gigantea mixed seeds. This seed packet was the announcement object for a group show which included Thomas A. CLark, Mat Collishaw, Anya Gallaccio, Michael Landy and FInlay amongst others. Unopened and unusual.
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N.p.: n.p., n.d.
15 x 10cm, 1pp. Full colour photograph of a stone sculptural work presented on the floor. This image is signed in black in k on the side by Finlay in full. VG+.
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