chubb ralph (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Great Britain: Crucible/Aquarian Press/Thorsons Publishing Group, 1987. Appears Unread. Light wear to wraps (see scan), light page tone as per usual. A Very Good+ copy Indeed. First Edition/First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Frontispiece Photo Collage. 8vo size - over 9" tall.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Limited. Booklet, sewn, decorative paper wraps. 20 x 14cm. [15]pp. Second edition. Woodcut frontispiece, title vignette and 8 other illustrations to the text. Printed by L.J. Chubb with the hand-press made by him, in Curridge, Berks, March, 1924. Wraps frayed with small losses. One of a total of approximately 225 copies across the two printings. The occasional spot but generally clean. Uranian poems.

Curridge, R.N. Chubb, 1925. Original grey wrappers printed in green. 48 p. With three woodcuts plus a little woodcut vignette on the cover. Paper with deckle edges. Printed in 200 numbered copies (#109), signed with the author's initials 'R.N.C.'. First edition. Edges of the projecting wrappers a bit creased. A few vague foxing spots on the outermost text leaves, otherwise fine. A long poem (636 lines) by Ralph Chubb, illustrated by himself, about the question of carnal love between a mighty warrior, a sixteen-year old boy and a girl. Printed on the printing press built from an old carpenter's workbench with some crude pieces of wood cut by Ralph Chubb, helped by his brother Lawrence (and that shows, in irregular inking and printing). Numbered and signed with Chubb's initials.

Limited edition. Number two of thirty copies, this is one of the twenty four uncoloured copies, printed on Hollingworth paper, the first page printed in red. 385x275mm. pp. [10], 16, [8]. Seven full-page lithographed plates and other illustrations in the text. Original tan half morocco, cloth covered boards. Upper cover stamped in gilt with a figure of nude boy and lettered in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing to head and foot of spine and to joints. Slight marking to covers and some rubbing to the cloth on the lower board but otherwise a very good copy and internally near fine save for some minor toning to edges. Ralph Chubb (1892-1960) "was both a prophet and paiderast" (Oliver Drummond, International Journal of Greek Love, 1965). After service in WWI, he studied at the Slade. During the early 1920s, he had some success as an artist and produced three hand-printed books linked by their treatment of sexuality and the male body. The third of these, A Fable of Love and War, introduces us to Chubb's enthusiasm for young boys, an enthusiasm diluted here by his only description of heterosexual coupling. Henceforth women would appear in Chubb's work only as idealised mothers of even more idealised adolescents. In the late 1920s, Chubb's other obsession was the creation of a book which would "combine poetical idea, script and design in free and harmonious rhythm -- all unified together -- so as to be mutually dependent and significant". The Sun Spirit is that book, a lithographic reproduction of Chubb's illustrations and manuscript, painstakingly constructed and printed in a very small limitation. It is a curious mixture of autobiography and psychic spirituality drawing on Blake (Chubb's illustrations are shot through with Blake), Dante and the Bible in which the Devil is overcome by a divine vision in the form of a beautiful young boy who might be either Eros or Jesus. Chubb was a fine artist and his lithographs are wonderful. His poetry, however, is overwrought and overwritten but he genuinely believed that our spiritual apotheosis would manifest itself in the form of an androgynous adolescent.