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The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking
by Comfort, Alex (ed.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 067121649X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671216498
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Reprint 5th or later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Charles Raymond and Christopher Foss. 253, (3) pp. Sixth printing. Slight rubbing to the cover edges; there is a stress crease on the spine. The binding is tight and the text is clean.
Synopsis
DR. ALEX COMFORT, M.B., D.SC., was one of the world’s leading experts on human sexuality. He was known for his frank and funny writings on love and sex, and was the inventor of the modern sex manual. Cofounder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, anarchist, social commentator, novelist, and poet, he wrote more than fifty books and countless scientific papers. Over the course of a distinguished and varied career, Dr. Comfort worked as head of research on gerontology at University College London and was a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University and an adjunct professor at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA. He died in March 2000 at age eighty. SUSAN QUILLIAM is a relationship psychologist who works with the international Journal of Family Planning , the British relationship counseling organization Relate, and a number of global advisory boards in the field of sexual health and dysfunction. Susan is also an advice columnist and writes, broadcasts, and presents internationally on topics surrounding love and sexuality.
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- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 080834
- Title
- The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking
- Author
- Comfort, Alex (ed.)
- Illustrator
- Charles Raymond and Christopher Foss
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint 5th or later Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067121649X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671216498
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 253
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
- Keywords
- Sex; Sexuality Sexuality
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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