Hockney's Alphabet.

HOCKNEY, David - SPENDER, Stephen (ed.).

Edité par London: Faber and Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust, 1991

First edition, signed limited issue, signed by the artist and the editor and specially bound in yellow buckram. This work was a collaborative effort created to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney's specially drawn alphabet. The written contributions are by Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. Norman Mailer declined his invitation, but his "letter refusing seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection" that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (preface). Folio. With 26 full-page colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by Hockney. Original yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt on a dark blue ground, printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, cream endpapers. Housed in the original grey cloth slipcase. Slipcase marked with remnants of old price sticker, book fine. N° de réf. du vendeur 172478

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Hockney's Alphabet.
Éditeur : London: Faber and Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust, 1991
Signé : Signé par l'auteur
Edition : Edition originale