https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Sun, 03 May 2020 15:52:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/handwritten-signed-typed-letter-from-finlay-to-bookseller-carlton-willers-17-september-1970/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=handwritten-signed-typed-letter-from-finlay-to-bookseller-carlton-willers-17-september-1970 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/handwritten-signed-typed-letter-from-finlay-to-bookseller-carlton-willers-17-september-1970/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 1975 16:41:34 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19972 Little Sparta: Finlay, 11 November 1975.

21 x 18cm, 2pp (both recto) original typed letter on white letter head note paper (PAN incorporating PICK) which is hand signed at the end in ink by Finlay. A letter to Carlton Williers- which firstly explains the PAN letterhead - "so far as I know I am the only Scottish Garden Poet and the letterhead is just to keep me company".
Willers (of Philadelphia) was a known collector of art and a friend and one-time lover of Andy Warhol.

Finlay then thanks Willers for his "kind letter: and happily agree to let him stock the press' publication. Finlay bemoans the lack of a new York outlet for his work and he hopes Willers might make a difference.
Finlay points out that the Press now has a much greater inventory of printed material and encloses some lists of available works as well as pushing the medallions and ceramic tiles - "People rarely buy the tiles from the list and rarely fail to buy them if they actually see them.)"

A 33% trade discount is offered and there is a short discussion on how many US bookshops had cheated Finlay by "simply not paying"

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21 x 18cm, 2pp (both recto) original typed letter on white letter head note paper (PAN incorporating PICK) which is hand signed at the end in ink by Finlay. A letter to Carlton Williers- which firstly explains the PAN letterhead - "so far as I know I am the only Scottish Garden Poet and the letterhead is just to keep me company".
Willers (of Philadelphia) was a known collector of art and a friend and one-time lover of Andy Warhol.

Finlay then thanks Willers for his "kind letter: and happily agree to let him stock the press' publication. Finlay bemoans the lack of a new York outlet for his work and he hopes Willers might make a difference.
Finlay points out that the Press now has a much greater inventory of printed material and encloses some lists of available works as well as pushing the medallions and ceramic tiles - "People rarely buy the tiles from the list and rarely fail to buy them if they actually see them.)"

A 33% trade discount is offered and there is a short discussion on how many US bookshops had cheated Finlay by "simply not paying"

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