Ian Hamilton Finlay (681 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

98 pp.; 30.3 x 22.8 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held December 9, 1990 - February 3, 1991. Guest curated and with an introduction by Milena Kalinovska. Guest edited and with text by Deirdre Summerbell. Additional texts by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Nena Dimitrijevic, and Susan Daitch. Interviews and artists' page by Bruce Ferguson. Artists include Dennis Adams, Art & Language, Judith Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Braco Dimitrijevic, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Félix González-Torres, Tomislav Gotovac, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thomas Huber, Ilya Kabakov, On Kawara, Jirí Kolár, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Cildo Meireles, Tatsuo Miyajima, Muntadas, Barbara Steinman, Lawrence Weiner, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. Includes an exhition checklist. Very Good. Light rubbing of cover edges, wear to corners, and light scratching of covers. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 310 pp., Edited & with an introduction by Alec Findlay., Poets for the Millennium series.

paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. Berkeley. 2012. April 2012. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520270596. Edited and with an Introduction by Alec Finlay. Poets for the Millennium, 8. 23 b/w photographs. 280 pages. paperback. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature Poetry World Literature. DESCRIPTION - 'I consider this book, long overdue, to be a milestone in publishing.' - Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment and Unoriginal Genius. Ian Hamilton Finlay was an entirely original, and continuously challenging, voice in the poetry of the English-speaking world. Stephen Bann, author of Ways Around Modernism This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique poem of place, in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s. inventory #38151.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Nice clean copy.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Illustrated. Marina Vaizey "Sculpture in the Environment" / Linda Saunders "Glynn Williams: The Journey Up" / Clive Turnbull "Antony Gormley: The Impossible Self" / Sue Hubbard "Interview with Nicola Hicks" / Rupert Martin "Ian Hamilton Finlay: Pastoral Revived" / Keith Spencer "A Field Guide to Sculpture Parks, Gardens and Landscape Sites" (U.P.).

Paperback. Condition: As new. First Edition. A SOMETHING ELSE READER edited by Dick Higgins with pieces by Eleanor Antin, George Brecht, Pol Bury, Augusto de Campos, Clark Coolidge, Philip Corner, William Brisbane Dick, Robert Filliou, Albert M. Fine, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hugh Fox, Buckminster Fuller, Eugen Gomringer, Brion Gysin, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Jan J. Herman, Dick Higgins, Ċke Hodell, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Kitasono Katue, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Ruth Krauss, Jackson Mac Low, Robert K. Macadam, Toby MacLennan, Hansjörg Mayer, Charles McIlvaine, Richard Meltzer, Manfred Mohr, Claes Oldenburg, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Charles Platt, Bern Porter, Dieter Roth, Aram Saroyan, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Ellen Solt, Daniel Spoerri, Gertrude Stein, André Thomkins, Wolf Vostell, and Emmett Williams. 368 pages, paper with stiff cover. BLACK AND WHITE REPRODUCTIONS. As new.

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Condition: Good. Limited ot 750 copies. Light green paper wraps are sunned at edges and age-toned, with allover light soiling and foxing. Shelfwear to edges, rubbed at joints, corners bumped. Spine sunned. Interior age-toned with light foxing to inside covers and flyleaves and scattered light soiling here and there. Front cover starting at bottom 1-2". Binding delicate at some pages but intact. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil to half title.

Paperback. Condition: New. This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique 'poem of place' in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned 'Little Sparta'. They cover Finlay's turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development. This book, edited, introduced and annotated by Bann himself as was Midway, its companion volume of letters, completes the portrait of the man who is now recognized not only as a great poet, but also as a major artist and one of the most original garden designers of modern times.".Bann's superb two volume set of Finlay's correspondence.These handsomely printed volumes, amply footnoted, with biographical and historical commentary leading readers up and down the stony path, are an extended conversation with one of twentieth-century Britain's most unexpected artists." -Times Literary Supplement Read the full review here.

First edition. 251 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Presents IHF's WALKING THROUGH SEAWEED along with work by David Storey, B.S. Johnson, and others.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique 'poem of place' in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.

Hardback. Condition: New. These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned 'Little Sparta'. They cover Finlay's turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development. This book, edited, introduced and annotated by Bann himself as was Midway, its companion volume of letters, completes the portrait of the man who is now recognized not only as a great poet, but also as a major artist and one of the most original garden designers of modern times.".Bann's superb two volume set of Finlay's correspondence.These handsomely printed volumes, amply footnoted, with biographical and historical commentary leading readers up and down the stony path, are an extended conversation with one of twentieth-century Britain's most unexpected artists." -Times Literary Supplement Read the full review here.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned 'Little Sparta'. They cover Finlay's turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development. This book, edited, introduced and annotated by Bann himself as was Midway, its companion volume of letters, completes the portrait of the man who is now recognized not only as a great poet, but also as a major artist and one of the most original garden designers of modern times.".Bann's superb two volume set of Finlay's correspondence.These handsomely printed volumes, amply footnoted, with biographical and historical commentary leading readers up and down the stony path, are an extended conversation with one of twentieth-century Britain's most unexpected artists." -Times Literary Supplement Read the full review here This book, edited, introduced and annotated by Bann himself as was Midway, its companion volume of letters, completes the portrait of the man who is now recognized not only as a great poet, but also as a major artist and one of the most original garden designers of modern times. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Softcover, 108 pages with 9 loose plates of quotes laid in; in English and French; good condition; light rubbing to covers; pink waterstain to top edge of inside covers and first few pages and the right edge of the loose plates.

Condition: New. pp. 224.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No jacket. In great condition. No date specified.