$1,586
Edited by Stephen Spender. London: 1991. 4to, original vellum-backed boards, title in gilt to spine, in hand-made Fabriano Roma paper board slipcase with paper label on upper cover. One of 240 numbered copies signed by the artist, editor and 22 contributors, including Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolsen, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V.S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, and John Updike. This book was published to raise money for people living with AIDS. The book contains 26 letters of the alphabet plus "&," each accompanied by a poem or short text with a full page illustration by Hockney. Ted Hughes, T. S. Eliot, Paul Theroux and Anthony Burgess also contributed but were not able to sign. Fine in fine slipcase.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-03-16
