Spender, Stephen & Hockney, David China Diary SIGNED
China Diary by Stephen Spender and David Hockney
Signed by both authors RARE. Most signed copies currently available are just signed by Spender.
1st Hardback edition Thames and Hudson London 1982.
Large 8vo 200pp. illustrated by Hockney 158 watercolours drawings and photographs. 84 in colour.
Red boards with gilt design on upper cover.
A record of Hockney and Spender’s travels in China in 1981 with Hockney’s assistant Gregory Evans to whom the book is dedicated. A record of their itinerary and meetings with artists writers and the many Chinese people who assembled around them in the street.
