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Bombs, Buggery and Buddhism - EDITIONS

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: BOMBS, BUGGERY and BUDDHISM or DIARIES OF A MOCK HUMAN BEING - Part the 1st. THE ART EDITION

DELUXE ART EDITION

Edition of 13 hand torn, loose leaf books, SIGNED and NUMBERED by the artist with 2 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, screen printed cover artwork and a tipped in print of the painting 'The Rising of Lazarus" by Billy Childish, 2010.

All printed on 115 gsm Someset paper and housed in a custom card box with paper labels.

33 cm x 51 cm.

The two drawings to be included will be a charcoal and pencil sketch of 'The Rising of Lazarus" and "A badly exicuted likeness of the dictator Adolph Hitler drawn holding a black cat (only drawn in green)" drawn in pencil on the page of a note book with teeth marks and coded message as described in the book. The charcoal and pencil drawing will have it's own card folder and the pencil drawing will be tipped in on a special appendix page. Photographs of these drawing will be made available as soon as is possible.

Printed and made by the L-13 Press, March 2010.

!PLEASE NOTE: These fine editions will be made slowly and with care to order. An example will be available to view at the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, but please allow 21 days for your copy to be made and delivered.

Price: £1,000.00

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