Hockney's Alphabet. Signed Special Edition.

Hockney, David. (Illustrations) Spender, Stephen. (Ed. )

ISBN 10: 0571165443 / ISBN 13: 9780571165445

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1991

About this Item

SIGNED special edition. One of an unspecified number of copies specially signed by David Hockney & Sir Stephen Spender on preliminary page. Printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge and is specially bound in yellow library buckram, and lettered in gilt on coloured panel on spine. Fine in grey cloth slipcase. (unpaginated) (10" X 13") Includes a single printed sheet folded to make 4 pages which serves as a prospectus for the Aids Crises Trust. This limited issue has become increasingly elusive in recent years. ; 10" x 13".

Seller Inventory # 3116364

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hockney's Alphabet. Signed Special Edition.
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0571165443
• ISBN 13: 9780571165445
• Binding: Hardcover in slipcase
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

On behalf of the Aids Crisis Trust in London, Sir Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in Britain and America to contribute original texts, prose or poetry, to accompany an alphabet of initial letters specially drawn for the Trust by David Hockney. The writers who have responded, in order of appearance, are Joyce Carol Oates, Iris Murdoch, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis, Erica Jong, Ian McEwan, Nigel Nicolson, Margaret Drabble, Craig Raine, William Boyd, V.S. Pritchett, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Arthur Miller, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Douglas Adams and Patrick Leigh Fermor. An unpublished letter by T.S. Eliot has been given by Mrs Valerie Eliot and Lord Norwich donated a 19th century alphabet poem. The result of this collaboration is an anthology of art and literature, the proceeds from the sale of which are being donated to the Aids Crisis Trust by the artist and the contributors.

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