David Hockney

A first edition hardback copy of the book Hockney’s Alphabet, signed on an inside title page by Hockney and also by the editor.

• David Hockney (English).
• Edited by Stephen Spender.
• The book is bound in yellow buckram, printed on exhibition fine art cartridge paper and housed in the grey cloth slip case.

The book is a collaboration between David Hockney and several British and American writers who contributed text to go along with the illustrated alphabet, all to raise money for the AIDs Crisis Trust. Contributors included 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 published as his contribution.