David Hockney – Hockney’s Alphabet

1991

One of 250 numbered copies signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. Drawings by David Hockney & written contributions (by 26 authors) edited by Stephen Spender. 4to. Grey paper over boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt.

The Hockney drawings illustrate each of the 27 contributions by various authors on a letter of the alphabet (a T.S Eliot piece is included for ‘Q’, along with that of Anthony Burgess), with a final piece by John Julius Norwich. 22 of these have also signed the book: 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, and Ian McEwan. (Not signing were Burgess and Eliot, of course, Ted Hughes, and Gore Vidal). Published by the Aids Crisis Trust to raise money for AIDS victims.

Edition: 250
Signed: Yes by the artist and authors