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David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 1
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 2
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 3
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 4
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 5
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 6
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 7
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 8
David Hockney R.A. (born 1937) Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in). (This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.) image 9
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David Hockney R.A.
(born 1937)
Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in).

3 March 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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David Hockney R.A. (born 1937)

Hockney's Alphabet, 1991
signed by David Hockney, Stephen Spender and most contributors in ink and numbered 188 in black ink on the justification page
the complete set of 26 offset lithographs printed in colours
overall 34.3 x 25.5 x 3cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in).
This work is from the edition of 250, published by Faber & Faber, London, for the Aids Crisis Trust, with full text and title page, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in the original grey slip case.

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Signed by 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.

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