HOCKNEY, David. Hockney’s Alphabet. Edited by Stephen Spender (Signed first edition)

London: Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991. First edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout with Hockney’s brightly coloured alphabet drawings, each letter accompanied by a contribution from a distinguished writer. Signed by David Hockney in pencil on the title page. Original binding. A very good copy.

Published to raise funds for the Aids Crisis Trust, this celebrated collaborative work pairs Hockney’s alphabet with writings by many of the leading literary figures of the period, including Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Arthur Miller, Julian Barnes, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Douglas Adams and Patrick Leigh Fermor.

An attractive association of contemporary British art and literature, considerably enhanced by Hockney’s large, characteristically fluid pencil signature on the title page.

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