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HOCKNEY'S ALPHABET: DRAWINGS BY DAVID HOCKNEY & WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS EDITED BY STEPHEN SPENDER - SIGNED AND SLIPCASED SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION
(HOCKNEY, DAVID). Hockney, David. Stephen Spender, Editor. London: Faber and Faber Ltd. for the AIDS Crisis Trust, 1991. First Edition Thus. 4to. Buckram in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (128pp), 27 color illustrations. Designed by Ron Costley. Conceived for the benefit of London's AIDS Crisis Trust, "Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in Britain and America to contribute original texts to accompany an Alphabet specially drawn by David Hockney. The letters were allotted by Stephen Spender, who has himself written a poem and the preface. Those who responded, in order of appearance in the book are 'A' Stephen Spender, 'B' Joyce Carol Oates, 'C' Iris Murdoch, 'D' Paul Theroux, 'E' Gore Vidal, 'F' Norman Mailer, 'G' Seamus Heaney, 'H' Martin Amis, 'I' Erica Jong, 'J' Ian McEwan, 'K' Nigel Nicolson, 'L' Margaret Drabble, 'M' Craig Raine, 'N' William Boyd, 'O' V.S. Pritchett, 'P' Doris Lessing, 'Q' William Golding, 'R' Arthur Miller, 'S' Ted Hughes, 'T' Kazuo Ishiguro, 'U' Julian Barnes, 'V' John Updike, 'W' Susan Sontag, 'X' Anthony Burgess, 'Y' Douglas Adams, and 'Z' Patrick Leigh Fermor. An unpublished letter by T.S. Eliot has been given by Mrs. Valerie Eliot, and Lord Norwich has found an extraordinary 19th century alphabet poem ''Alphabetical Alliteration'' by C.C. Bombaugh". A brand new, most handsome example of the 1991 unnumbered "Signed Special Edition bound in yellow full library buckram, lettered in gilt on a coloured panel on the spine, and preserved in a cloth slipcase" BOLDLY SIGNED by Hockney and Spender in ink on the front colophon, as issued, with the publisher's four page prospectus additionally laid in. 0-571-16544-3 Inventory Number: 019707