Hockney's Alphabet, Ex Libris Gore Vidal
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[Ex Libris Gore Vidal] Spender, Stephen (ed.). Hockney’s Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney. First Edition. 1991. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is stamped “From the library of GORE VIDAL” on the flyleaf. Gore Vidal was one of the contributors to the book.
An all-star cast of 20th Century literary lions contributed to this A-to-Z book conceived by Marguerite Littman to raise money for the Aids Crisis Trust. Gore Vidal, to whom this copy belonged, contributed the letter E. David Hockney provided the illustration for each of the twenty-six letters, which are reproduced on a full-page adjacent to the text. The responses vary in tone and style, but the best dabble in light existentialism or clever alliteration. One exception: Norman Mailer declined, but his clever rejection letter takes its place alongside the letter to which he was assigned.
“I’m working on a novel and it’s acting like most such creatures—insists on being a wife. You poets don’t know how lucky you are with your one-night stands.”
--Norman Mailer, on why he cannot do the letter F
An all-star cast of 20th Century literary lions contributed to this A-to-Z book conceived by Marguerite Littman to raise money for the Aids Crisis Trust. Gore Vidal, to whom this copy belonged, contributed the letter E. David Hockney provided the illustration for each of the twenty-six letters, which are reproduced on a full-page adjacent to the text. The responses vary in tone and style, but the best dabble in light existentialism or clever alliteration. One exception: Norman Mailer declined, but his clever rejection letter takes its place alongside the letter to which he was assigned.
“I’m working on a novel and it’s acting like most such creatures—insists on being a wife. You poets don’t know how lucky you are with your one-night stands.”
--Norman Mailer, on why he cannot do the letter F
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