Amory Richard (42 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by Rob Amory on the first free end page. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright. Stapled binding is sturdy. Covers are lightly edge worn and lightly shelf rubbed. Inscribed by Author.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Magazine. First Edition. 64p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, ads, illustrated with photos and a calendar of events, "Sample" stamped in red on cover else good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men.The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Softcover. 12mo. Gay thriller set in California. Fair with age-toned pages, handling and wear.

Magazine. First Edition. 48p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos of nude young men, artwork and ads, cover detached but present, staples rusty else good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Two page reproduction of Chick Publications homophobic religious cartoons. Also a review of "Norman, Is That You" which your humble bibliographer performed in Indianapolis in 1977. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Magazine. 48p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos of nude young men, artwork and ads, staples rusted, else very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Two page reproduction of Chick Publications homophobic religious cartoons. Also a review of "Norman, Is That You" which your humble bibliographer performed in Indianapolis in 1977. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Magazine. First Edition. 48p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, ads, illustrated with photos and a calendar of events, very good magazine in soiled, worn, stapled pictorial wraps. Report on Supervisor Feinstein at SIR. March to State Capitol. Gay In Cuba Conclusion. Polk Street festival. Short piece with photo on The Cockettes. Hollywood Gay Parade. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft Back copy in Very Good condition. The Book is clean & tightly Bound throughout. No Inscriptions. Free Postage within the UK.

Condition: Near fine. Second printing of the third volume in Amory's Loon Songs trilogy, the classic gay pastoral romance once described as a cross between Andre Gide and Louis L'Amour. 7'' x 4''. Original pictorial wrappers. 255, [1] pages. Light edgewear and scuffing to wrappers, minor dampstaining to upper corner of first few pages.…

Paperback. First Edition. 207p., very good first printing PBO in original wraps. Gay pulp fiction Young 58* TC 510 The Other Traveller. San Francisco surrogate sleuth caught up in a murder mystery involving his father and a missing Hispanic American boy. Gunn page 120.

Magazine. First Edition. 56p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos of nude young men, artwork and ads, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Gay prisoner: County Jail Interview. Transsexuals Are Not Homosexuals. Military Discharges Analyzed et al. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Magazine. First Edition. 56p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos and art of nude young men, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps, long closed tear on rear cover. Cover story by Larry Townsend on "That Wild Los Angeles Election" Interview with Richard Amory author of the "Song of the Loon" about being a closeted teacher at a junior high school. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Magazine. First Edition. 56p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos of nude young men, artwork and ads, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. (Traveller's Companion / The Other Traveller TC-510). Short (closed) split to foot of hinge and horizontal crease across bottom. Unread or gently read. Cover Copy: FROST is more than an absorbing love story and an outstanding exposition of homosexual passion and tenderness by the modern master of the genre; it's a bitter parable of the lengths to which a political egomaniac may go as he claws his way to the top of the heap. MUST reading for every individual of whatever sex who feels threatened by the peril to personal freedom in America today! McGraw was great at manipulating people to achieve his ambitions, with scandal, blackmail, and even murder? until he crossed swords with his son Frost, who refused to stay in the closet and mind his own business, Then McGraw found out that some of the pawns in his grim game of power had a weapon of their own, which he could never begin to understand. AMOR VINCIT OMNIA Size: 4" x 7". 207 pages. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight age-toning to page edges. Some reading-wear and bumping to corners. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: 2-3 Pounds. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::Gay (Male); Inventory No: 035626.…

Magazine. First Edition. 64p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, ads, illustrated with nude photos and a drawings, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on the myhth of SF as a Gay Mecca. Also Tennessee interviewed. Amory on coming out in 1949. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men.The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Magazine. First Edition. 56p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos and art of nude young men, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story by Larry Townsend on "That Wild Los Angeles Election" Interview with Richard Amory author of the "Song of the Loon" about being a closeted teacher at a junior high school. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good to near fine, tight, square copy with light edge wear, a smooth spine, a couple of faint stress creases at the corners, and mild age toning to the pages. An unusually well-preserved, unread copy of Amory's final book. A rare example. Kelly Freas (illustrator).…

Condition: New.