N.p.: n.p., n.d. (c. 1972) 24.5 x 20cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a sundial sited in a pond at Little Sparta. The text on the sundail reads "Tristan's Sail. WInd Shadow." believed to be taken by James Styles and sent by Finlay to an Italian Collector. VG+. ...
N.p.: n.p., n.d. (c. 1972) 19.5 x 25cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a carved stone found in Little Sparta with the word "Barque". One of a small number of photographs sent by Finlay to an Italian collector. The photo is believed to be taken by James Styles. VG+. ...
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972
28 x 20cm, 58pp. Boards with printed title. An anthology of concrete poems (in part designed by Michael Harvey) with a section dedicated to sundials. This is the second US publication (After the Something Else Press publication the year before. This is one of 200 signed and numbered copies aside from the 1,000 unnumbered copies. VG+. ...
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
7.5 x 7.5cm, 12pp plus wrappers and pictorial dj - artist's book with two drawings of triangles - one is denoted as a Sail, the other a sundial. Then tweo triangles are a schooner (a boat with two sails) and finally the numbers I - XII - is a fleet - presumably the boat numbers. Simply a visual pun based on the sundial,.
VG but the staples are somewhat rusted.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
25 x 34.5cm, grey-green on white offset lithograph with a drawing by Karl Torok of a garden sculpture which has a hidden fountain and water is sprayed out of the side of the cruiser - much as if it was draining its bilges. In printed card folder on which the print is signed and Numebred in pencil by Finlay.
Slight bumping to left of both print and folder but overall VG and very are.
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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, n.d. (1972)
20.5 x 12.5cm, 1pp red and brown on orange announcement leaflet for Finlay's book - with one design for a sun dial: The Four Seasons as Fore-and-Afters". VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
14.8 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with six line drawings of parts of modern destroyers and an elevation of the whole battleship. The style by Stuart Barrie is a thin line above a flat purple which reflects much of Wassily Kandinsky's sprawling stylish paintings. Purple being a colour often used by the pioneer of abstract art. The various towers and gun placements drawn here take on figurative overtones - seeming to be alive and threatening.
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Edinburgh: Scottish Nati0nal Gallery of Modern Art, 1972
18.5 x 12cm, 1pp mostly typographic announcement/invite card for Finlay's first museum show. VG+. A scarce card.
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London: Serpentine Gallery, 1977
19 x 14cm, 56pp plus 16ppp b/w plates. Original wrappers . An exhibition catalogue with a long essay by Stephan Bann illustrated throughout. One of the first long essays on Finlay by his long term friend and collaborator Bann. VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
12 x 16.6cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the text drawn by Stuart Barrie: "Jean Gris. His knife and fork" as if on a book cover. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was a famous art dealer who worked with the cubists and other avant garde artists including Gris who drew one of the best known portraits of Kahnweiler - who in turn wrote a seminal work on the painter. The reference to "knife and fork" suggests that the dealer was essential to Gris' practice (and may be a quote from the latter about Kahnweiler, we do not know?). It is also worth pointing out that the colour of the drawing here is grey - which is a translation of the painter's surname. VG+
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
13.5 x 16cm, 2pp - Harvey's drawing of an Barque (a ship with three or more masts) has numbers associated with each part as if a "painting by numbers" - only every colour is a virginal white. Williams was a long term friend and collaborator/publisher of Finlay. In truth this is the one Finlay reference/meaning I cannot fathom - if you know then do get in touch.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
24.2×32.2cm. three part folding card with various texts silkscreened in black on grey. The card which is folded into three gate folded nested sheets opens up to show different texts - THE HAY STACK'S WHISP and THE SMOKE STACK'S WHISP. Typograsphy and design by Michael Harvey
Finlay (as elsewhere) brings correspondence between boats and processed fields of wheat.
HMS D1 was one of eight D-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century and was one of the first diesel submarines which replaced petrol vessels. Being a submarine sometimes only the chimney stack could be seen above the water line - like wheat stacks on a harvested field.
Murray has this as a print - which is absurd - we are catagorising it as a folding card for this collection. Very good condition.
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