FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Cornel Lumiere PAUL NIEHANS signed'71

For your bidding consideration and collecting/reading pleasure is a SIGNED hardcover FIRST EDITION of "THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH...NOT A LEGEND!" by Cornel Lumiere published by Editions du Mont-Blanc, Switzerland, April 30, 1971, 1st printing.  Hardcover is very lightly rubbed and lightly bumped at the extremities; the right side edge of the front board is scraped/nearly gouged surface; page edges are very lightly browning from age and dust with a couple small light brown stains; gold-gilded decor on the front board and lettering on the spine is bright and vivid; otherwise, hardcover is in very good condition.  144 pages illustrated with photographs.  First endpage is inscribed/signed by Cornel Lumiere and frontispiece photo is signed at the bottom by Paul Niehans.  Item photo is actual item photograph.  No reserve.   

THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH...NOT A LEGEND!...(From the first chapter entitled The Fountain...):  Neither Dr Kinsey nor Dr Mary Stopes, Lady Chatterley, Candy nor Lolita has meant much in my life.  Kama Sutra, Sex-Before-Six-or-What-Should-a-Secretary-Do-During-Her-Coffeebreak? are not the titles of my favorite books.  I have experienced, happily and wholeheartedly, that life begins at forty.  It is only quite recently that the question occurred to me:  What begins or ends at fifty?  Unashamedly I will admit that I was the pet pupil of two male teachers in my schooldays and that I have generally worn my hair too long (in the back, to compensate for its disappearance where it should be).  There still is no doubt where my romantic or physical preferences have been in the past, or where they are now.  Rather than let polls or reports bother me with questions such as:  where-why-how long-how frequently, I have accepted libido and liebesdrang as logically there and pleasantly there, for none to doubt on any ground, at any time.  With a natural inclination to worry primarily about that fifth or sixth set of tennis or my stamina and an extra five seconds deep under the sea, exploring some beautiful reef, statistics about my physical prowess in the presence of the weaker sex have not seemed necessary.  Only twice in my life has the general subject of sex become a matter of considerable concern and analysis.  The first time it lasted for over three years when I shared with sixty thousand Allied prisoners of war the doubtful hospitality of Tojo on the Burma-Thailand railroad of death.  Little did it matter or mean, that occasionally a few of my close Australian friends and I would remark, as a young, handsome Eurasian fellow prisoner passed, "He does have lovely legs, doesn't he?"  All that mattered was, would we ever care about my legs at all after the war.  Of course we all assumed that we would.  The effects of prolonged starvation and the fear of possible impotence were frequently discussed by many.  The most intriguing observation on this came from a delightful Dutchman, Dr Steen, who, in his offhand manner and heavily accented voice, stated:  "Ja, I think de best thing to avoid muscular atrophy is controlled masturbation".  This so completely flabbergasted the audience of eight or ten of his friends that no one ever asked him for clinical detail or advice.  The second time the subject of sex seemed urgent was when I heard someone speak about a doctor somewhere in Europe who could rejuvenate tired blood, who had his hand on the controls of the Fountain of Youth.  The question occurred to me then: how tired does blood have to be before it can no longer be rejuvenated?  The occasion of this remark, some years ago, was a gathering of tourists at the Hilton Hotel in Ocho Rios.  The speaker who referred to some Swiss hospital, where apparently such care was extended, was that famous rubber of scalps, that international hair artist, Akers, then in Jamaica with his family, doing research on the possibility of starting a Mother's-Milk-Farm.  In his thinking, once the follicles had been sufficiently titillated there  might be other avenues for him in the care of suffering humanity.  Apparently he had come to the conclusion that if Mother's Milk is good for babies, it must be good for all.  I am sad to say that I have lost track of his project.  I have not seen it advertised and I must assume that Mr Akers did not open his Mother's-Milk-Farm.  My life continued at jet speed.  In excellent health, I dismissed the thought of the treatment for tired blood as irrelevant;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For questions, please email Richard at Richardsccomm@AOL.com    ITEM LOCATION:  8-B

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