Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust (1991). No Dust Jacket - hard board slipcase. Illustrated by DAVID HOCKNEY 1st UK Special Edition; First Printing. FINE in a Near Fine slipcase.
Specially bound in yellow buckram, the spine blocked in dark blue and lettered in gilt. In the original pale grey cloth-covered SLIPCASE. Some small imperfections on one side of the slipcase.
Otherwise near as new, a very handsome book. Drawings by David Hockney, with written contributions edited by Stephen Spender. One of an unspecified number of Special copies, SIGNED by BOTH Hockney & Spender to a special endpaper. The book consists of a drawing for each letter of the alphabet by Hockney printed in colours, with facing prose & verse texts by 27 different writers. Printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge.Contributors are: - Stephen Spender, 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. Pritchett, Doris Lessing, William Golding, T. Eliot, Arthur Miller, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, Douglas Adams and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Plus'Alphabetical Alliteration' by C.
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