"Poppy, Mandragora And The New Sex" 1966 SPENCER, Colin

Colin Spencer (17 July 1933 – 6 July 2023) was an English writer and artist who produced a prolific body of work in a wide variety of media after his first published short stories and drawings appeared in The London Magazine and Encounter when he was 22. His work included novels, short stories, non-fiction (including histories of food and of homosexuality), vegetarian cookery books, stage and television plays, paintings and drawings, book and magazine illustrations. He wrote and presented a television documentary on vandalism, appeared in numerous radio and television programmes and lectured on food history, literature and social issues. For fourteen years he wrote a regular food column for The Guardian.

[192] pp.

Anthony Blond

1966

8 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Jacket design by the author

VG/ VG

Surreal fantasy: As with Huxley and Orwell, a sizeable part of Spencer's imagination works like a crystal ball: it offers a terrifyingly prophetic insight into the modern psyche. macabre designs and hypnotic powers, which threaten to disrupt the whole sexual harmony of the Cosmos