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 | BILLY CHILDISH - The Stonemason DRAFT EDITION
by "CLAUDIUS"
"...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
ADVANCE, UNCORRECTED PROOF, DRAFT EDITION
Printed for the private consideration of L-13 subscribers in an edition of 113 copies signed by Billy Childish with a photograph of the apprentice stonemason and Erratum slip tipped in.
350 pages, 198 mm x 128 mm bound in Gollancz covers circa 1963.
Printed on recycled pink paper.
This is Billy Childish's 5th novel and the correct edition in corrected L-13 covers will be available from all good bookshops this summer for the princely sum of £7.99.
N.B. Even though this edition appears to have been published by Victor Gollancz in the early 1960s it merely appears that way in homage to good books in good covers.
Price: £35.00
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 | SELECTED POEMS - Penguin 'ART' Edition of 100 SIGNED COPIES
PLEASE NOTE: This artwork is not authorised by Penguin and is not available for resale.
THE BOOK IN THIS IMAGE HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED YET. IT WILL BE SIGNED IN INK ON THE FRONT COVER. EACH BOOK WILL BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT IN APPEARANCE AND ANY UNSOLD COPIES WILL BE INCINERATED ON THURSDAY 21st JAN 2010 at 8.13 pm
ARTIST: Billy Childish
TYPE: Facsimile Penguin book containing selected poems by Billy Childish and presented as a homage to D H Lawrence. Signed, stamped and artificially aged by the artist.
EDITION: 500 copies of this book were printed but most will be destroyed on instruction by Penguin Books. This an artistically 'altered' edition of 100 that is signed and numbered on the front cover by the artist using the gallows symbol as his signature. It will also be stamped with a British Art Resistance 'Approved' stamp, the publishers edition stamp and an 'Unauthorised by Penguin - Not for Resale' stamp.
SIZE: 10.8 cm x 17.8 cm x 145 pages
All remaining books and all unsold copies will be burnt at 8.13 pm on Thursday 21st January 2010 during the launch event and reading for this and the Tangerine Press hand bound sister edition.
Price: £24.99
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 1 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 1/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 2 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 2/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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| RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 3 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 3/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 4 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 4/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 5 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 5/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 6 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 6/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 7 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 7/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 8 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 8/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 9 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 9/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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 | RAGGED KINGDOM Queen - with hand screened additions 10 of 10
Unique work over base image in a limited edition of 10
Number 10/10
100 x 70 cm on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle Satin Photo Rag with acrylic screen print
Signed, numbered and titled by the artist
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OFFER
This price increases to £950 after 30th July 2011
Price: £495.00
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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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 | BOMBS, BUGGERY and BUDDHISM - Deluxe Art Edition
One of the appendix pages with original drawing in green pencil + coded notes.
PLEASE NOTE: These are all different... you may not get this particular one.
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 | Charlotte C Young and Billy Childish: Karl St Bernard Lampenshwartz and Doktor Albirt Umber - The Biographical Notes
SIGNED LTD EDITION
2 VOLUMES
1st Edition of 100 numbered copies signed by the author Charlotte Yong and her collaborator Billy Childish.
Privately published and made for subscribers by the L-13 Press, April 2010.
7 pages in each volume (including titles and colophon), 148.5 mm x 105 mm hand bound in stapled double card wraps with paper label, sealed with a red rubber band (not shown). Stamped and numbered on the back cover.
No ISBN, No Barcode and No Distribution. (except for the ICA bookshop and other carefully selected outlets).
On completion and publication of Bombs, Buggery and Buddhism, Chyldish commissioned the artist Charlotte Young to write up some biographical notes on the eminent academics Albirt Umber and Karl St. Bernard Lampenschwarz for an appendix in future editions of Bombs, Buggery and Buddhism. Each text has been scrutinised, corrected and in places embelished by Chyldish, and the publisher has deemed the work important enough to warrant immediate publication in two matching volumes.
Price: £15.00
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 | OFFICIAL PENGUIN BOOK BURNING COLLECTOR'S PACK - Dumb Insolence Act II
This pack contains the genuine certified ashes and remains of a copy of Selected Poems as incinerated by the artist sometimes known as Billy Chyldish on 21st January 2010 by order of Penguin Books.
Edition of 500 but only 31 packs are known to have been made.
Copyright Breach 2010
This pack may contain parts deemed to be the intellectual property of Penguin Books.
PLEASE NOTE: This artwork is not authorised by Penguin Books and is not available for resale.
22 x 31 cm
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Price: £31.00
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 | The Uncorrected Billy Chyldish - Signed Edition of 100
SIGNED and NUMBERED EDITION of 100
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
This copy is signed with the Hangman Gallows and numbered by the author on the title page in ink.
IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE THIS BOOK BEFORE CHRISTMAS PLEASE ORDER IT BEFORE 12 noon Tuesday 21st December (UK ORDERS ONLY)
Price: £15.00
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 | Medway Prison Hulks - Fundraiser Woodcut 1 by Billy Chyldish
This and the other two woodcuts in the series are used on the covers and endpapers of the Medway Prison Hulks book. These editions have been kindly donated by the artist to help pay for the printing costs of the book and create a fund for future publishing projects of a similar nature.
Edition of 13 signed and numbered by the artist.
Printed using the 1825 Albion Press at L-13 onto Somerset Buff Velvet paper.
37 x 28.5 cm
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Price: £195.00
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 | Medway Prison Hulks - Fundraiser Woodcut 2 by Billy Chyldish
This and the other two woodcuts in the series are used on the covers and endpapers of the Medway Prison Hulks book. These editions have been kindly donated by the artist to help pay for the printing costs of the book and create a fund for future publishing projects of a similar nature.
Edition of 13 signed and numbered by the artist.
Printed using the 1825 Albion Press at L-13 onto Somerset Buff Velvet paper.
37 x 28.5 cm
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Price: £145.00
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 | Medway Prison Hulks - Signed Ltd Edition
by Keith Gulvin
"The problem with contemporary art is that it doesn't have enough local history in it" Billy Chyldish
Ltd Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies with a tipped in erratum slip and introduction by Billy Chyldish.
Signed on the title page by the author and the erratum slip by Chyldish.
Cover and endpapers designed by Billy Chyldish
126 pages with 16 pages of colour illustrations, 240 mm x 170 mm bound in recycled brown card
The intention of this book is to tell the full story of the Medway Prison Hulks (redundant naval vessels used for the incarceration of prisoners). The inspiration for this book comes from the author's lifelong fascination concerning Prison Hulks in the River Medway drawn from snippets of local history, in books and articles, folklore and reading Charles Dickens' Great Expectations as a child.
Price: £25.00
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 | Medway Prison Hulks - Fundraiser Woodcut 3 by Billy Chyldish
This and the other two woodcuts in the series are used on the covers and endpapers of the Medway Prison Hulks book. These editions have been kindly donated by the artist to help pay for the printing costs of the book and create a fund for future publishing projects of a similar nature.
Edition of 13 signed and numbered by the artist.
Printed using the 1825 Albion Press at L-13 onto Somerset Buff Velvet paper.
37 x 28.5 cm
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Price: £195.00
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 | Boy on a Horse - Woodcut
Edition of 13 signed and numbered by the artist.
Printed using the 1825 Albion Press at L-13 onto Somerset Buff Velvet
60 x 45 cm
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Price: £395.00
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 | Spotted Elk and Other Works on Paper - Exhibition ArtZine
First Edition
13 photocopied pages with studio shots and other works not exhibited.
21 x 29.7 cm on 80 gsm unbleached recycled paper, stapled in the top left hand corner.
Guarranteed poor quality.
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Price: £0.75
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