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HOCKNEY, David; SPENDER, Stephen (editor).

Hockney's Alphabet.

Hockney's Alphabet.

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Stock Code 115007

London, Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991

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Signed. Hockney has illustrated the alphabet and the authors have each taken their relevant letter as the inspiration for the composition; T. S. Eliot's letter to a Miss Quinn makes a double entry for Q, with that of William Golding's. An Elegy of X by Anthony Burgess is also used. The other contributors are Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, John Julius Norwich, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Gore Vidal, Anthony Burgess and Ted Hughes.

First edition, signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender; 4to (330 x 252 mm), drawings by David Hockney with written contributions from twenty-six authors, printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge; publisher's yellow cloth, original grey cloth slip-case, in fine condition.

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