Hockney's Alphabet
by Hockney, David
Price: $2,500.00
- Bookseller: marilyn braiterman rare books
- Seller Inventory #: 4164
- Format: H Vellum and Boards
- Book condition: Fine
- Illustrator: David Hockney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Faber & Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust
- Place: London
- Date published: 1991
Book Description
London: Faber & Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust. 1991. 4to. H Vellum and Boards. Fine. 4to, quarter vellum and handmade Fabriano paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. As new in original matching slipcase with paper label. One of 300 copies of the deluxe edition published to raise funds for people living with AIDS. Full page color designs drawn by Hockney, one for every letter of the alphabet plus an ampersand, with a literary contribution on each facing page. Signed by Hockney, Stephen Spender and 22 authors, including Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Pritcett, Arthur Miller, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and others. An illustration can be found on my website, www.braitermanbooks.com, by clicking on Catalogue 31 (item 35). Signed: I Signed
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