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BILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason LIBRARY EDITION HARDBACKBILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason LIBRARY EDITION HARDBACK

L-13 LIBRARY EDITION

LTD EDITION of 13 copies signed and numbered by the author.

This edition has been beautifully hand bound by Michael Curran of the Tangerine Press. The standard first edition has been used with the original wraps laid into buckram covered board and a British Library lending slip from 1976 tipped in on the front endpaper.

20 copies were bound this way of which 13 are available for sale.

ALL COPIES WILL BE SENT BY SPECIAL DELIVERY

Price: £131.13



BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7" SIGNED BLUE VINYL

A) Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire - There is Only Me

AA) Chatham Singers - All That's Spoken is Unkind

Cover designed by Billy Childish

Edition of 31 copies in blue vinyl Signed and Numbered by Billy

RELEASED BY SQUOODGE RECORDS, Germany in a total edition of 1000 copies in different coloured vinyl with hand stamped labels

www.squoodge.de

Price: £15.00



BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7" SIGNED RED VINYL

A) Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire - There is Only Me

AA) Chatham Singers - All That's Spoken is Unkind

Cover designed by Billy Childish

Edition of 31 copies in red vinyl Signed and Numbered by Billy

RELEASED BY SQUOODGE RECORDS, Germany in a total edition of 1000 copies in different coloured vinyl with hand stamped labels

www.squoodge.de

Price: £15.00



BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7" SIGNED Green VINYL

A) Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire - There is Only Me

AA) Chatham Singers - All That's Spoken is Unkind

Cover designed by Billy Childish

Edition of 31 copies in green vinyl Signed and Numbered by Billy

RELEASED BY SQUOODGE RECORDS, Germany in a total edition of 1000 copies in different coloured vinyl with hand stamped labels

www.squoodge.de

Price: £15.00



BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7BILLY CHILDISH and the MBEs / Chatham Singers split 7" SIGNED CLEAR VINYL

A) Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire - There is Only Me

AA) Chatham Singers - All That's Spoken is Unkind

Cover designed by Billy Childish

Edition of 31 copies in clear vinyl Signed and Numbered by Billy

RELEASED BY SQUOODGE RECORDS, Germany in a total edition of 1000 copies in different coloured vinyl with hand stamped labels

www.squoodge.de

Price: £15.00



BILLY CHILDISH - With Scout Under Rowan Tree  2 COLOUR WOODCUTBILLY CHILDISH - With Scout Under Rowan Tree 2 COLOUR WOODCUT

This woodcut is the first to be cut by Billy in about 2 years and the first ever 2 colour woodcut we have published.

It was made live to an audience at an event organised by Love Art London at the ART HATE ARCHIVE, L-13 on 11th January 2011.

It is printed on Japanese print paper in an edition of 31 signed and numbered by the artist.

49 x 32 cm



Price: £395.00



BILLY CHILDISH - Hastings Pier Burning - Hand Coloured EtchingBILLY CHILDISH - Hastings Pier Burning - Hand Coloured Etching

This photogravure etching has been made specially for the L-13 Front Line of Defence Christmas Shop in Hastings in aid of the Save the Pier Fund.

Etching on Somerset Buff Velvet and hand coloured in soft pastel.

Edition of 31 signed and numbered by the artist.

38 x 54 cm

A percentage of all sales goes to the Save the Pier Fund


Price: £395.00



BILLY CHILDISH - Erupting Volcano, Chile  Hand Coloured EtchingBILLY CHILDISH - Erupting Volcano, Chile Hand Coloured Etching

Etching on 250 gsm Somerset Buff Velvet Paper
Hand coloured by the artist in watercolour
Signed with the artist's hangman symbol

Edition of 31

38 x 44 cm

This etching has been derived from a painting exhibited and sold at Childish's inaugural solo show at Lehmann Maupin, New York where the volcano paintings were first exhibited. Each print is individually inked and pressed, then hand coloured, signed and numbered by the artist.


Price: £395.00



BILLY CHILDISH - I Fuckt Frida Kahlo  BILLY CHILDISH - I Fuckt Frida Kahlo

SIGNED LTD EDITION POETRY BOOK in ARTIST'S BINDING with FABER & FABER DUSTJACKET circa 1953 + INTRODUCTION by T.S. ELIOT

Edition of 60 of which 10 are dedicated copies and 50 have been made available to the general public for sale of which 26 copies have been sold in New York.

Signed and numbered on the title page by the artist.

Finely bound in purple cloth covered boards with gold foiled insignia debossed on the front board and ribbon book mark bound in, with printed dust jacket.

This special edition has been published on the occasion of Childish's inaugural solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, New York, November 2011. The poems were first published under the title Parafin Van by Blackheath Books, October 2011.

Price: £75.00





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BILLY CHILDISH DOUBLE 7BILLY CHILDISH DOUBLE 7" 'bearing the mark of the artist'

LTD EDITION DOUBLE 7" in GATEFOLD SLEEVE

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS


Edition of 50 BEARING THE MARK OF THE ARTIST

This record contains two 7" singles. One by The Musicians of the British Empire and the other by The Chatham singers.

MBEs

a) a distant figure of jon
aa) wise blud

Chatham Singers
a) you say you got the wise blud
aa) all the dreams (that speak to me)


A total of 250 copies have been joint released by us and White Columns, New York, to coincide with Childish's inaugural solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

Just 50 copies of these have had the cover hand drawn with a unique mark by the artist. 12 copies have been sold by Lehmann Maupin, 25 have gone to White Columns and we have just 13 copies to sell.

The covers and labels are all hand stamped and numbered, and each copy contains a free Gestetner print that has been folded and laid inside.


Price: £50.00





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BILLY CHILDISH DOUBLE 7BILLY CHILDISH DOUBLE 7" Edition of 200

LTD EDITION DOUBLE 7" in GATEFOLD SLEEVE

Edition of 200 numbered copies

This record contains two 7" singles. One by The Musicians of the British Empire and the other by The Chatham singers.

A total of 250 copies have been joint released by us and White Columns, New York, to coincide with Childish's inaugural solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

The covers and labels are all hand stamped and numbered, and each copy contains a free Gestetner print that has been folded and laid inside.


Price: £10.00





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The Soft Ashes of Berlin Snowing on Hans Fallada's Nose - Exhibition CatalogueThe Soft Ashes of Berlin Snowing on Hans Fallada's Nose - Exhibition Catalogue

First Edition of 1000 copies published by neugerriemschneider, Berlin.

21 x 24 cm

176 pages full colour

Bound in grey book board, quater-bound cloth with paper laber and blocked titles

Includes the full Fallada Cycle of paintings, source materials, studio photographs and an introduction by Harold Rosenbloom.

Please click on the thumbnail for a larger image

Price: £25.00



BILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason BILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason

L-13 SPECIAL EDITION

This book contains an original Gestetner print laid between the endpapers.

The print has been made by the artist for the sole benefit of L-13 subscribers and is only contained in copies purchased directly from us the publisher.

Please see below for more information or to purchase a copy


BILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason L-13 SPECIAL EDITIONBILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason L-13 SPECIAL EDITION

EXCLUSIVE TO L-13 CUSTOMERS

EACH BOOK COMES WITH AN ORIGINAL GESTETNER PRINT OF A BILLY CHILDISH DRAWING LAID IN BETWEEN THE FRONT ENDPAPERS, a 'SPECIAL EDITION' LABEL on the FRONT ENDPAPER and IS HAND STAMPED with a HANGMAN'S GALLOWS

"...YES, in this modern day and age, a secondry skool boy without qualifications could consivably become a riter, but he must 1st learn to rite like an old woman then craft his fucking prose like a hiddious lace doyly for surving up overly sugary angel cake, then drooping it over the face of the dead." Gustov Claudius

THE STONEMASON

new evidence (original revelations) - the assembled poem illustrating skivings and sketches made during a winter sojourn in her majistys dockyard c- in the year 1976

First Edition

Childish's 5th novel.

327 pages, 198 mm x 128 mm bound brown card wraps and printed on pink paper.

Available to pre-order now and despatch from 21st September
Price: £7.99



BILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason BOXED SIGNED Ltd EDITION with mini Gestetner Print and BAG of ROCK DUSTBILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason BOXED SIGNED Ltd EDITION with mini Gestetner Print and BAG of ROCK DUST

Limited Edition of 150 numbered copies housed in a custom card box with a Gestetner printed label.

Signed with the authors full name and gallows symbol with a Gestetner print of a drawing laid between the front endpapers and a small glassine bag of rock dust from an original stone carving by the artist laid in on the page that quotes:

"do not desire the glitter of the jewel
but the rawness of stone"
toa te ching

IMAGE OF PRINT and BOX TO FOLLOW

Available to pre-order now and despatch from 29th September

Price: £35.00



The Uncorrected Billy Chyldish The Uncorrected Billy Chyldish

1st Edition thus
1st published as a hand bound Ltd Edition by Tangerine Press, Tooting, November 2009
Also published as the Penguin Classic Art Edition by L-13, December 2009 (This edition was destroyed on order of Penguin Books. Enforced incineration carried out by the author on 21st January 2010.)

145 pages, 175 mm x 108 mm bound in recycled brown card

IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE THIS BOOK BEFORE CHRISTMAS PLEASE ORDER IT BEFORE 12 noon Tuesday 21st December (UK ORDERS ONLY)



Price: £7.99



BILLY CHILDISH: BOMBS, BUGGERY and BUDDHISM or DIARIES OF A MOCK HUMAN BEING - Part the 1st. BILLY CHILDISH: BOMBS, BUGGERY and BUDDHISM or DIARIES OF A MOCK HUMAN BEING - Part the 1st.

REGULAR SUBSCRIBER'S EDITION

1st Edition of 500
Privately published for subscribers by the L-13 Press, March 2010.

84 pages, 175 mm x 108 mm perfect bound in recycled brown card designed by the artist.

No ISBN, No Barcode and No Distribution (except for the ICA bookshop and other carefully selected outlets).

This is the first of 3 pocket books that will make up the complete "Bombs, Buggery and Buddhism or Diaries of a Mock Human Being", a text based document in the form of a 100 page biography, being a hypothetical reconstruction sourced from historical evidence dealing with notions of identity, originality and authenticity through the real life adventures of the hero William Loveday. Also cataloguing his exploits in fact and fiction. All accounts disputed by the academic Birt Umber.

PLEASE NOTE: The complete Bombs, Buggery and Buddhism will not be 100 pages long and is not necessarily a biography.

DATE OF PUBLICATION: 23rd march 2010



Price: £5.99





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BILLY CHILDISH - Dock Worker's LegsBILLY CHILDISH - Dock Worker's Legs

Gestetner Duplicator Print on pink recycled paper
2011
29.7 x 21 cm

Edition of 31 signed numbered and stamped by the artist.

Unframed

This image is based on a drawing originally made in 1976 when Childish worked as an apprentice stonemason in Chatham dockyards. This and other drawings made at the time, known as the Drawings from the Tea Hut of Hell, gained him entry to art college with no other qualifications.

Price: £100.00



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