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The Un Corrected Billy Childish - No Such Number
Hay on Wye Aquarium / Kestrel Gallery 2005
Signed limited edition (50 copies) book with hand painted original cover. Published by Aquarium & Kestrel Gallery, Hay-on-Wye. Signed and numbered to back board by Billy Childish, with Hangman gallows and Aquarium sea horse stamps. Book is number 33 of only 50. There is a second signature on a heavy paper (almost like a bookplate) tipped into the inside of the front board. This is also adorned with one of Childish's hangman block cuts (a different one to that on the rear board. There is also a small red stamp that looks Chinese, but is indecipherable. 16 pages on heavy stock. Poetry in red type. 12 full colour plates. Hand bound hardback in hessian boards. Red handmade paper endpapers. Book in very good condition with just a touch of darkening to edge of front board (from handling we suspect). 110 x 90 mm (4Œ x 3œ inches).
Frozen Estuary and other paintings of the Divine Ordinary.
London L-13 Press 2012
An immaculate limited, numbered and signed First Edition of this work (limited to 113 copies). This is copy #19/113. Signed with Childish's Hangman signature to the front board. Half black cloth with pale green boards and a tipped on title illustration. Frontis photograph of Childish. Introduction by Harold Rosenbloom. Designed to accompany the exhibition at Chatham Dockyard rather than illustrate it, this beautifully produced book presents cycles of oil paintings, watercolours and studio photographs made during Childish's residency at Chatham Dockyard, 2011 - 2012. As new condition. 176 pages. 215 x 245 mm (8œ x 9Ÿ inches).
The Soft Ashes Of Berlin Snowing On Hans Fallada's Nose.
London L-13 2010
Published on the occasion of Billy Childish's first exhibition at Neugerriemschneider, Berlin. This hardback catalogue contains paintings, placards, studio photos and source materials made for, and used in, the run up to the exhibition. Introduction by Harold Rosenbloom (aka Steve Lowe). Orange spine with pictorial inlay to front board. The catalogue is in fine condition with no significant flaws. 176 pages. 24.3 x 21.5 cm
Notebooks of a Naked Youth - Signed, Limited
Hove Codex 1997
Scarce limited first edition. This is #96 - written to rear board by Childish - limitation of 100 signed copies. Frontis b/w woodcut by Childish. Quarter mustard yellow cloth and grey cardboard hardback covers - in near fine condition. Semi-autobiographical work by the outspoken and unorthodox British poet, artist and songwriter. Contents unread and in as new condition. 190 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8œ x 5Ÿ inches).
1 off the rist: new poems.
London Tangerine Press 2016
Scarce. Limited edition, number 84 of only 100 copies. Published by Tangerine Press. Book is hardback in hand sewn and handmade marbled paper covered boards with a Japanese Silk spine. The front cover artwork is embossed in black with Heritage book white archival quality, Fourdrinier made, acid-free text paper on the inside and Hahnemuhle Ingres endpapers. 24 pages. The limitation is numbered in red, and signed by Billy Childish in blue pencil, with Hangman gallows stamp. In fine / as new condition.
