HOCKNEY, David, & Stephen Spender (ed.).

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Hockney's Alphabet. First edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number 249 from the edition of 250 numbered copies for sale signed by Spender, Hockney, and 22 of the 27 contributors: 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. The contributors who did not sign were Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. This work was a collaborative effort created to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited an assortment of some of the most eminent British and American writers to contribute with texts to accompany Hockney's specially drawn alphabet. All of the writers approached agreed to contribute, with the one exception of Norman Mailer who politely declined, but whose amusing "letter refusing seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection" that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (Preface).

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