The Blue Guitar (Signed)

52pp with 20 colour etchings by David Hockney. Signed by David Hockney on the title page, where he has also drawn a doodle which appears to be a clown (approximately 4 inches tall). Card covered boards, a little worn at edges; remnants of label on front endpapers. Page 15 has a small, ink pen stroke. In its original dust jacket, heavily rubbed at edges, cracked at top and bottom of leading edge, scuffed at corners and spine ends. Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. A catalogue which documents the publication of Hockney’s The Blue Guitar, a group of 20 etchings by David Hockney, accompanied here by Wallace Steven’s poem, The Man With the Blue Guitar. Both Stevens and Hockney drew inspiration for these works from Pablo Picasso. Square 8vo.

Hockney, David

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