Comfort Alex Editor (20 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Reader's creases on spine. Otherwise, cover is clean and crisp. Text is clean and unmarked with a tight binding. Raymond, Charles and Foss, Christopher (illustrator).

Leatherette. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brown leatherette covers. 220 pp., 32 full color illus., 70+ line drawings. Moderate shelf wear. Clean text with a tight binding. Raymond, Charles and Foss, Christopher (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. dj. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf-wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. marginal stains; not affecting readability. Raymond, Charles; Foss, Christopher (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Love Making (title page: A Cordon Bleu Guide to Lovemaking). Edited by Alex Comfort, M.B., Ph.D. Illustrated by Charles Raymond and Christopher Foss. New York: Simon and Schuster, a Fireside Book. Softcover (trade paperback), Complete and Unabridged Illustrated Edition. Later printing from the 1970s; the printing and date were not confirmed from the pages photographed. Front cover carries the sale price flash "The National Bestseller at $12.95 Now $5.95." ISBN 0-671-21649-8 (Fireside no. 21649 on the back cover). Comfort's landmark illustrated sex manual of the 1970s, organized as a "cookbook" of lovemaking with line drawings and color plates. Condition: Good to Very Good softcover. Wrappers are creamy white with light soiling and handling wear. Spine is toned with light creasing, binding sound, and the page edges are toned. Not examined for markings beyond the title page. Complete. Carefully packed for shipment. Domestic shipping via USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. Expedited and international shipping available where permitted. Returns accepted in accordance with AbeBooks policies. PSYCH 5a.…

Condition: Near Fine unmarked. 2nd printing. Outstanding bestselling sex manual. Bright clean tight PB copy. 7 x 10-1/4, 255 pp, index, b/w & color dwgs & reprodtuctions. Trade Paperback in white wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2 Books In Slipcase. Light Edgewear. Light Wear. The Slipcase Is In Good Shape With Light Edgewear & Light Liquid Soiling. Charles Raymond & Christopher Foss (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated. "Now 4" refers to the fourth volume of Now, a radical literary and political magazine edited by the Canadian-British anarchist intellectual George Woodcock and published by Freedom Press in approximately 1944. The publication served as a critical platform for pacifists, anarchists, and avant-garde writers operating under British wartime conditions. George Woodcock "The Write and Politics" / Dwight Macdonald "The Psychology of Killing" / D S Savage "E M Forster and the Dilemma of Liberalism (Part 2)" / Frederic Ramsey "Artist's Life - The Story of Vanicilio Meban" / Victor Serge "The Revolution at Dead End" / Louis Adeane "Four Poems for April" / Alex Comfort "October, 1944" / Peter Wells "The Tulip in a Pot" / Denis Preston & Albert McCarthy "The Poetry of American Negro Folksong. 2.Worksongs" / Stanley Jackson "A Pattern in Frustration. A series of Four Drawings" (U.P.).…

New edition. 4to. 128pp. Colour illustrations. Paperback in original pictorial brown and white wrapps. lettered in black, upper wrapp. creased. ISBN 1857324404 US$11.

Condition: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed golden yellow wraps. The wraps are darkened & lightly bumped with a small stain to the rear wrap. Pages [305]-336. There is a small piece out of the bottom corner of each of the last 5 leaves & the top page corners are lightly bumped. Good. The editor, John Middleton Murry, explains in a note on the rear wrap that "The Adelphi" is being temporarily edited from The Adelphi Centre in Langham, Essex, a center founded in anticipation of the war to support "works of constructive pacifism" and to explore "new forms of social living". It combined a refuge for victims of bombing raids, a community farm and market garden and educational activities directed towards the regeneration of society. Also announced is the death of Max Plowman, the previous editor, at the age of 57. "His death was attributed to the severity of his exertions at the Adelphi Centre."This issue is mainly concerned with the war. Among the contents are an article by Murry on Rudolph Hess; "What is War?" by Reginald Reynold; and poems by Elizabeth Welch MacKenzie and Alex. Comfort.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Later Printing. Boxed set contains BOTH of these wildly popular sex manuals from the early 1970s, complete & unabridged, illustrated throughout with 70+ line drawings & 32 pages in full color. First Editions, later (9th) printings from 1972, the two large softcovers, Vol. I in 253 pages + Index, Vol. II in 220 pages + Index, are in Near Fine condition: completely clean & bright, appearing unopened. Bindings strong & straight & uncreased, pages white & unmarked. Very mild bend to upper-outer corners of Vol. I, even mild creasing to the outer corners of the back cover on Vol. II. The cardboard slip case that houses them both is VG, with wear along the lower edge of back cover & slight rubbing around the opening. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Raymond, Charles; Foss, Christopher (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. pp.223 clean tight copy with minuscule edge and corner wear to d/j Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Raymond & Christopher Foss (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated . Many color illustrations . An excellent copy of the book The book is clean , no marks of any kind . The hinges are tight on the large volume . Charlie Raymond and Christopher Foss (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 12th printing of softcover edition. Glossy wraps show light wear and soiling, with a 1" repaired tear to leading edge of front cover; binding tight; pages clean with a couple of small stains to leading edge of text block. Autographed by Alex Comfort in ballpoint pen on title page. Landmark '70s sex manual, startlingly uncommon signed. 7 x 10-1/4". 256 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 72 pages. Arthur Koestler "The Birth Of A Myth" / Barbara Ward "Journey To America / Alex Comfort "Letter From Ireland" / Michael Rothenstein "'Can We Be Educated Up To Art'" /Reproductions Of Drawings By E Q Nicholson and Osbert Lancaster / John Betjeman "On A Late Victorian Water Colour Of Oxford" (poem) / Cecil Day Lewis "O Dreams, O Destinations" (Poem) / Rosamond Lehmann "In Memoriam: Laurence Binyon" (poem).…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. DJ complete, shows slight use.

Magazine. 32p. including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches,very good digest-size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Have Yourself a Gay Vacation This July by Farr. The Feminie Viewpoint. But Not Alone by Otis. The Traffic in Pornography by Comfort. One, Inc., which took its name from Thomas Carlyle's statement that "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one," was founded in LA in 1952 as a homophile organization with connections to the Mattachine Society. As the first pro-gay journal of its kind, it serves as an important source for pre-Stonewall homophile studies. In 1954 the US Post Office declared it obscene, leading to a four-year legal battle (chronicled in its pages) that concluded with a favorable decision as part of Roth vs. United States. Aside from its articles covering topics ranging from the Beatniks and Gay marriage to homosexuality and national security, One Magazine also featured poetry and short fiction by numerous prominent authors.…