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

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

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