Author: Alex Comfort
Title: The Song of Lazarus
Description: New York, The Viking Press, 1945. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of poems by Alex Comfort, signed by the author. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, dated 27.1.46.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An early anthology of poems by Alex Comfort, the British scientist and physician who is best known for his 1972 'The Joy of Sex&apos.This collection includes 'Elegy for a Girl Dead in an Air-Raid', 'Letter to a Friend in the Army', 'The Atoll in the Mind', 'From the French of Heredia', 'Hoc Est Corpus', and more. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Fading to the head and tail of the spine. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is worn, the wraps are detached from one another. Edge wear to the wraps, with small chips and closed tear, larger closed tear to the rear flyleaf. Light age-toning and marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good Only.

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