The Dancers Inherit the Party and Glasgow Beasts: Ian Hamilton Finlay
AssociatedAssociated with
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
PublisherPublished by
Polygon
Date2004
Object NameBook
Mediumcard, paper, ink
ClassificationsPrinting
Dimensions21.5 x 13.8 x 2.1cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017361.18
About MeSoftback book, 245pp. Expanded edition of "The Dancers Inherit the Party and Glasgow Beasts: Ian Hamilton Finlay" (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2004). The main selection of poems and foreword by Robert Creeley from the 1996 edition have been retained, but this edition also contains stories from Ian Hamilton Finlay's earliest published work "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories" from 1958, and a new essay by Ken Cockburn. For the first edition see ABDMS017361.13.
This book is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend of the donor.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
