May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 1,792
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HOCKNEY, DAVID. Hockney's Alphabet. Edited by Stephen Spender. Each letter of the alphabet illustrated by Hockney with descriptive prose by writers. 4to, gilt-lettered vellum-backed; publisher's slipcase. London: Faber and Faber, [1991]

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number 153 of 250 de luxe copies signed by hockney, spender, and most of the contributors including Iris Murdoch, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Arthur Miller, Douglas Adams, John Updike, Julian Barnes, Norman Mailer, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Martin Amis, V. S. Pritchett, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Sontag, and others. From a total edition of 300. Printed by Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, all proceeds from the book were given to the Trust to support its many programs to help people with AIDS.