Sex Crimes of the Futcher The Short life and Strange and Exciting Adventures of William Loveday Ex-student of C - town. Who, not being properly lookt after as a child, was sexualy abused by a 46 year old man, and his subsequent war with all education and authority. Also including An account of his sexual deviations and unjust expulsion from art school and his ultimate revenge. Ritten by himself.
by CHILDISH, Billy
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About This Item
London: Printed by The Aquarium, Woburn Walk 2004, 2004. First edition. 232x155mm. pp. [viii], ii, [2], 235. Green cloth with illustration (by Childish) stamped in black to upper cover. Pictorial dustjacket with same portrait illustration in white, black and brown on upper cover. Endpapers decorated with a repeated sea-horse design. Some marking to dustjacket and a small stain to foot of spine but overall in very good condition and internally it is immaculate. Billy Childish is a genuinely counter-cultural figure. A writer, artist and musician he made his name as part of the Medway Poets, a punk performance poetry group based around Maidstone where he was at art college in the late 1970s. As a painter, he was a founder of the Stuckists and his disturbing style owes much to early twentieth century German Expressionism. His father was a convicted drug smuggler and Childish (who is dyslexic) was sexually abused as a child by a family friend and this trauma forms the point of departure of this dark autobiographical novel.
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- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3376
- Title
- Sex Crimes of the Futcher The Short life and Strange and Exciting Adventures of William Loveday Ex-student of C - town. Who, not being properly lookt after as a child, was sexualy abused by a 46 year old man, and his subsequent war with all education and authority. Also including An account of his sexual deviations and unjust expulsion from art school and his ultimate revenge. Ritten by himself.
- Author
- CHILDISH, Billy
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed by The Aquarium, Woburn Walk 2004
- Date Published
- 2004
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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