Flesh
first edition
1960 · New York
by FARMER, PHILIP JOSE
New York: Beacon, 1960. First Edition. Paperback original. About fine bright copy with a trace of use. The front cover is illustrated with a color painting depicting a nearly naked muscular man with antlers emerging from his temples clutching at a red metal cage, within which a terrified naked woman is screaming, with images of Washington, D.C. and a space ship in the background. From the rear cover copy: “Into this Flesh-adoring world Peter Stagg was plunged, to find himself changed by this queer new science into something part man, part beast, part god. His Flesh was stronger than ten men’s, his desires were driven by alien hormones in his blood, and each morning his tortured mind recoiled from the memory of what his body had done the night before!” (Inventory #: 16977E)