Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2015
25./4 x 23.3cm, 64pp plus boards. First edition of this photobook by Finlay collaborator Gillanders with 31 black and white photographs documenting Little Sparta, in Scotland, accompanied by an essay by Gillanders and an Aafterword by Alec Finlay. VG+.
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Glasgow: Seebed Press, 2015
15 x 21cm, 52pp in embossed and printed thick boards, string bound. A cataloguing of the works commissioned by the European Association of Archaeologists Glasgow up to 2015. Works include the Boyle Family, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Catherine Mooney, Kate Downie as well as Finlay's ALL GREATNESS STANDS FIRM IN THE STORM from 1990 where the text in Greek (a translated quotation by Heidegger from Plato's Republic) was inscribed in both languages on the granite pillars of the Old Caledonian Railway Bridge over the River Clyde. The site specific work clearly emphasises the structure and its solidity over the centuries. One colour image of the work is reproduced. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Lyon & Turnbull, 2013 27 x 21cm, 88pp plus card covers. Auction catalogue which amongst a large number of other items offers 6 works by Finlay including a toy tank made by the poet in 1979. There are colour images and descriptions and the wooden tank is reproduced on the cover of the publication. VG+. ...
Eindhoven Peter Foolen Editions, 2012
20 x 245.5cm, unpaginated, Original card covers, Photographic record of one afternoon at Little Sparta where Finlay sailed his toy boats on the Loch. Black and white photographs throughout. This is one of 50 numbered copies with a signed and editioned b/w photograph of the boats appended aside from the edition of 300 copies. VG+ in unopened plastic wrapping.
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Edinburgh: The Arts Journal, 2012
25 x 18cm, 146pp plus card wrappers with image of Apollo Terroriste. Single number of this very short lived art journal (huge numbers were printed and few sold) with a short uninsightful article by Ian Gale which is illustrated with three b/w photographs by Robin Gillanders. VG+.
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London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2011
10 x 21cm, 4pp Christmas card from Victoria Miro with on the front a neon work "Dove, dead in its Snows" reproduced in colour. Sent to Finlay's collaborator Janet Boulton with a hand-written note "To dear Janet, al all good wishes for 2011. Victoria". . VG+.
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Eindhoven: Peter Foolen Editions, 2012
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. B/w postcard with a b/w photograph by Robin Gillanders of one of Finlay's toy boats on the Loch Echen at Little Sparta. Promotional card for the book "Ian's Fleet". VG+
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London: Victoria Miro, 2011
9 x 12cm, 40pp plus card covers and printed label. Artist's book content of 18 "definition" works by Finlay.
"MILKY WAY, n. the celestial East-West axis."
This publication was produced for the London exhibition DEFINITIONS and was a limited edition of 250 copies. Clearly Finlay had died 5 years earlier so it's status as an artist's book is moot but we have retained the classification. VG+
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London: Victoria Miro, 2011)
10.5 x 14.8cm, 4pp. Exhibition announcement card for a posthumous solo show with a definition work "HIGHLIGHT, n. a mark, sign, or medal awarded by the light." reproduced on the front VG+.
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Little Sparta/Heidelberg-Berlin: Wild Hawthorn Press/ Kehrer Verlag, 2010
24.5 x 16cm, 112pp, plus pictorial boards. Photographic book contrasting Ian Hamilton Finlay's two major gardens, Little Sparta in Scotland, and Fleur de l'Air in France with 70 colour illustrations. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, n.d.
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a posthumous exhibition of prints. One work - SEAMS - on the front. VG+.
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Wilkieston: Jupiter Artland, 2010
21 x 15cm, 2pp. Promotional leaflet for a large scale sculpture garden with one work by Finlay reproduced in colour on the back amongst others. VG+.
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