London: Faber and Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust, 1991. David Hockney Illustrator, Stephen Spenser Editor. First edition. Signed by Hockney and Spencer in colophon. The book was published with the purpose to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. The book includes 27 color drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by David Hockney, and 27 literary contributions to accompany the drawings by: Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Anthony Burgess, Margaret Drabble, T. S. Eliot, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Erica Jong, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Stephen Spencer, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal. Also included: Alphabetical Alliteration by C.C Bombaugh chosen by John Julius Norwich.

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