SPENCER, Colin. Anarchists in Love.

(London): Eyre and Spottiswode, 1963.  First edition.  Hardcover.  22cm by 15cm.  319 pages.  The first novel in the author’s acclaimed “Generation” quartet, Anarchists in Love (1963) introduces the Brighton-based Simpson family through the story of Sundy Simpson, a young painter whose affair with aspiring writer Reg Pearson unfolds against the bohemian, emotionally volatile world of early-1960s counterculture. A novel of artistic ambition, sexual awakening, and moral uncertainty, it charts the couple’s turbulent relationship with candour, touching on then-controversial subjects including back-street abortion, bisexuality, and the tensions between personal freedom and emotional responsibility. This a very good copy, very slightly leaned, some offsetting to endpapers, light foxing to edges, in a very good dust jacket, designed by the author.