Books illustrated by the artist

Susan Sontag [text], Howard Hodgkin [illustrations]: The way we live now. London: Karsten Schubert, 1991; limited edition of 200 copies signed by the author & the artist; 4 hand-coloured etchings & hand-coloured endpapers; selling at £1800; text originally publ. in The New Yorker, 1986.

Susan Sontag [text], Howard Hodgkin [illustrations]: The way we live now. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991; 32p, 5 col. Illus. Fasimile commercial edition of Karsten Schubert limited edition (“All royalties from this edition of The Way We Live Now are being given to AIDS charities in the United Kingdom and the United States” – p.5); ISBN: 0224029169.

Julian Barnes: Evermore ; pictures by Howard Hodgkin, text by Julian Barnes. London: Palawan Press, 1996; 1) standard edition of 150 signed & numbered copies, with 6 original etchings, in hand painted blue wrappers, enclosed in cardboard box & sleeve, selling at £750; 2) special blue edition of 50 signed & numbered copies, comprising the etchings of the standard edition, with each page of the book hand-painted, & 2 individual prints, signed by the artist; enclosed in sleeve and portfolio box in silver bookcloth; selling at £1500.