Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1993
21 x 7.5cm, 8pp. Black on yellow folded single sheet, A publisher's/dealer's catalogue listing a number of works and books, etc by Finlay as well as Roger Ackling, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Andy Goldsworthy, Hamish Fulton, Alan Johnson, Pieter Laurens Mol, Linda Taylor, Edda Renouf and James Cramb available with prices. Graeme Murray was Finlay's dealer for many years. VG+.
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Berlin: Ernst A. Busche Zeight, n.d. (1993)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show of works relating to the French revolution. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
10 x 10cm, 4pp. Folding card with a line drawing by Stephen Duncalf, of a plastic model of a tank on the front - the various parts waiting to be assembled are still on the plastic stalks. Inside is a poem:
AUTUMN.
brings us again
familiar colour<Desert Yellow,
Panzer Grey.
The colours of the Fall are conjured up in the colours used by model makers for tank camouflage. VG+.
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Zeight: Ernst A. Busche 1993
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a solo show displaying works inspired by the French revolution. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
12.2 x 8cm, 4pp. Folding card with a drawing by Gary Hinks on the front which is in the style of the Edlich who used wood and other found objects in his cubist-like works. Here the drawing shows what looks like a found piece of wood with the word "JACOBIN" on it. One assumes Finlay felt that Edlich was somewhat Jacobin in his life. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
11.6 x 9.2cm, 16pp plus card covers and dust jacket with title label. A proposal for the Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh which consisted of seven bollards near a landscaped area each with two boat names and registration number etched on them one above the other to create seven short poems. Drawings by John Andrew and Gary Hincks. In the notes Finlay explains each poem and its Greek reference.
One sich poem is:
OLIVE
LEAF
BCK 210
SERENE
BF46
which creates an appeal for peace. Finlay notes a Shakespeare quotation "and peace proclaims olives of endless age".
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
18 x 14cm, 4pp brown outer folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:
AUTUMN.
The woods
milestones
The mountains
signposts.
Finlay indicates how the distant hills act as means of orientating a traveller and the trees act as steps on the way in any rural journey. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
18.5 x 12.2, 4pp. Folding card with a reproduced colour painting by Gary Hincks on the front which is a wild rose. The date 1794 was an important year in the French revolution as it not only saw the death of Danton by degree but also the Law of 22 Prairial where Robespierre centralised his unofficial dictatorship over the country by removing rights of defendants when accused of sedition or slandering the state. The wild rose for Finlay (which here has a bud alongside a fully opened flower) is signifying the wild actions of the Committee for Public Safety but also the potential of the revolution (which ultimately failed like most and returned France to the monarchy then Napoleon's despotism). This "definition" was used by Finlay in other works including a limited edition vase for wild flowers. VG+.
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London: workfortheeyetodo, 1993
15 x 10.5cm, 12pp plus printed glossy card covers. Exhibition catalogue listing 76 books and cards by Finlay. Text only. VG+
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
18.5 x 10.6, 4pp. Folding card with a reproduced colour painting by Gary Hincks on the front which is of a yellow wild flower. The definition of a Wildflower is given by Finlay as "A Mean Term between Virtue & Revolution". The word "mean" has two meanings here - an averaging or the synthesis of the two ideas of virtue and revolution and/or the effects of the themes of virtue and revolution causing chaos and unpleasantness (which is a mild way of describing The Terror). VG+
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Edinburgh: European Art Festival, 1993
24.5 x 17cm, 80pp and cover. Exhibition catalogue for a major public exhibition of light works which took place in Edinburgh. Finlay installed a huge neon work on the top of the Government's St Andrews House - the work was EUROPEAN HEADS but the word HEADS is upside down as if fallen and decapitated. Illustrated in colour. The glue binding has come loose else VG.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
9 x 7cm, 4pp (single folded sheet of card). The text which is embossed (raised) on this card to keep it white like snow reads:
SWANS IN WINTER
Snow on
the snow of
their wings
One of the most beautiful of the Xmas cards and very scarce. VG+ condition....