Comfort, Alex — Darwin and the Naked Lady

New York, George Braziller, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First American Printing of this valued collection of essays about poetry and biology, life and evolution. Contents include "On Hard and Soft Centres"; "Darwin and Freud"; "Phoebus and Pan"; "The Rape of Andromeda"; "The Naked Lady"; "On Laying Plato's Ghost"; "On Play and Earnest." Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Blind-stamped illustrations to front cover of Darwin and the Naked Lady. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. 174 pp. including a full index and set of notes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,