Ocean Stripe Series 3.
by FINLAY, Ian Hamilton
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh.: Wild Hawthorn Press., 1965.. Original publisher's white stapled wrappers with titles printed in black to dust jacket. Large 8vo. (20.5 x 13 cm).. 7 leaves, followed by 3 leaves of red, yellow and blue tissue. A mimeographed leaf of text is inserted loose. A very good copy of the rarest volume in Ian Hamilton Finlay's 'Ocean Stripe Series' and his first kinetic poem-booklet.The kinetic booklets in the 'Ocean and Canal Stripe Series' were an innovation of Finlay's at the Wild Hawthorn Press, and an important contribution to concrete poetry and the artist book. 'Ocean Stripe Series 3' is a concrete poem / artist book inspired by the story of Noah, in which, after repetitions of the word 'ark', a lyrically beautiful rainbow of die-cut colouredpapers is announced.Loosely inserted sheet, with printed passage from Genesis 9:13: 'I do set my bow inthe cloud, and it shall be for a token for a covenant between me and the earth...'[Moeglin-Delcroix - Esthétique du livre d’artiste. pp. 60, 66, 373; Yves Abrioux - Ian Hamilton Finlay. A visual primer, p. 19 (illus.)].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48431
- Title
- Ocean Stripe Series 3.
- Author
- FINLAY, Ian Hamilton
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's white stapled wrappers with titles printed in black to dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Wild Hawthorn Press.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh.
- Date Published
- 1965.
- Pages
- (7 leaves: iii).
- Size
- Large 8vo. (20.5 x 13 cm).
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About Sims Reed Rare Books
Sims Reed Ltd. (Est. 1978, St James's London) specialises in rare books related to art and architecture and stocks a wide range of material in the following categories: Antiquarian, Illustrated Books, Contemporary Artists' Books & Multiples, Periodicals, Architecture, Photography, Applied Arts, Manuscripts and Ephemera.
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...