Verlag: Valancourt Books 1/14/2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1939140773 ISBN 13: 9781939140777
Anbieter: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Paperback or Softback. Zustand: New. The Leather Boys 0.43. Book.
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Paperback. Third printing. Good condition. Minor edge-wear. Creases on front cover near spine and in upper left and lower right corners. Rubbing-wear on spine. Crease in upper middle and upper and lower left corners of back cover.
Verlag: New English Library Ltd, 1969
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1969. Reissued. 125 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners and reading creases. Tears to spine. Wear marks overall.
Verlag: Four Square Books, London, 1966
Anbieter: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Kanada
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Thus, New Edition. Four Square Book 1567. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; no interior markings. Book.
Verlag: Carrier Pigeon, 1985
ISBN 10: 0907040616 ISBN 13: 9780907040613
Anbieter: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good paperback with clean pages. Prior owner's name and address inside front cover. Light creasing to cover.
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Four square. Second printing. Juvenile Delinquency novel. Very good condition. Minor edge-wear. Wear along spine. Weak front hinge.
Verlag: Ballantine, 1967
Anbieter: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Story of England's motor-bike gangs. VG; readers crease; overall cover wear.
Verlag: Ballantine U Series. NY: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1967
Anbieter: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, USA
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Paperback. first edition. U-5065 , very good - fine, reading crease, Ballantine MOD book. , paperback,
Verlag: Ballantine Mod, 1967
Anbieter: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B00841YLXO Mass market paperback. First thus of 1961 original. Minor wear to corners and edges; slight spine creases; minor dustsoiling and browning to covers and throughout; slight mustiness; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Good condition. No Signature.
Verlag: Ballantine, New York, 1967
Anbieter: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Canadian edition. Printed in Canada. "Ride hard, die young - England's motor-bike gangs". A Ballantine Mod Book. Ballantine # U5065. A lovely copy with some reading creases adjacent to the spine but otherwise clean, tight, square, no internal markings. "The story of a generation too young, too wild, to settle down. The girls are married at 17, and the boys are restless, bored, ready for the excitement of powerful bikes, the night, the road." A wonderful artifact of the period.
Verlag: The New English Library Limited NEL, London, 1969
ISBN 10: 0450002446 ISBN 13: 9780450002441
Anbieter: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Vereinigtes Königreich
Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Fourth Paperback Edition. Originally published by Anthony Blond in 1961 and then in paperback by Four Square in 1963, in both cases under the name Eliot George. The book was published under the author's real name by Four Square in 1966. First published by NEL in January 1969 with this second NEL edition following in November of the same year. Some edge rubbing to the spine. Light edge wear to the covers with a little surface marking to the bottom left hand corner of the rear cover. Pages browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.
Verlag: NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY, LONDON, 1969
Anbieter: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. THE COVER IS LIGHTLY RUBBED AND CREASED. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE SLIGHTLY BUMPED. THERE ARE SCUFFS ALONG THE SPINE EDGE OF THE FRONT COVER. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND BOTH ENDS ARE BUMPED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Verlag: Anthony Blond, 1961
Anbieter: Elizabeth's Bookshops, Fremantle, WA, Australien
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Hardcover in Dustjacket. Zustand: Near Fine. FICTION First Edition.A novel depicting a gay relationship between two bikers in early '60s London, filmed in 1964 with Rita Tushingham and Colin Campbell; an important early film for queer cinema.Dick and Reggie are âleather boysâ, working-class London teens with an affinity for leather jackets and motorcycles who become friends through their involvement in a gang. For Dick, the money he gets from the gangâs thefts helps to support his ailing grandmother; for Reggie, membership in the gang provides relief from an unhappy home life and a loveless marriage. When Reggie decides to leave his unfaithful wife and move in with Dick, the two soon discover their feelings for each other are much stronger than mere friendship. As they make plans for their future together, will they find the happiness they seek, or is their love doomed to end in tragedy?The first novel to offer an authentic portrayal of love between ordinary, working-class young men, Gillian FreemanâsÂThe Leather BoysÂ(1961) is a groundbreaking classic of gay fiction that remains moving and compelling today. This edition includes a new introduction by Michael Arditti, who situatesÂThe Leather BoysÂalongside other early gay works by women writers like Mary Renault and Marguerite Yourcenar and argues that Freemanâs novel and its 1964 film adaptation played a vital part in liberalizing British attitudes towards homosexuality.First published in 1961 by author Eliot George, a pseudonym for Gillian Freeman, all later editions use her real name.The novel was published under the cheeky pen name Eliot George, but three years later, when Ms. Freeman wrote the screenplay for a film of the same title, she used her real name. (The opening credits said Ms. Freemanâs screenplay was based on the novel by Eliot George.)Assessing the book and film in 2015 for The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Richard Canning wrote, â âThe Leather Boysâ was and remains groundbreaking.âThe book and, more so, the movie, he said, âmade a pitch for the normality of male homosexuality, offering one of the first portrayals of it between working-class characters.âThis story of a blossoming gay romance between two working class teenage biker boys was published in 1961 â" three or four years after Wolfenden had recommended decriminalisation of homosexual activities but a full six years before any legislation came into force. Itâs not surprising, therefore, that the book has something of a cult status within the LGBT community and also accounts for why the publishers thought it necessary to give the author a pseudonym.Eliot George is not a very imaginative pen name I suppose but inverting the name of a 19th century giant of novel writing who had to masquerade under a manâs name in order to be taken seriously as a writer does make a point of sorts. The name hides the identity of the novelist Gillian Freeman, who at this point had published two or three novels under her own name and went on to write a whole lot more as well as a highly regarded study of written pornography calledÂThe Undergrowth of Literature. As you might expect from an author with serious credentials, this piece of storytelling is not only designed to provide a space for the gay voice but to tell a convincing tale of working class teenage life.Dick and Reggie are 18 year olds who lead quite different lives â" Dick is devoted to his ailing grandmother who has just been widowed and Reggie has succumbed to social pressures and has married unwisely to Dot, a girl he now despises â" but they come together in the coffee-shop gang led by the volatile and vicious Les. The gang indulges in petty acts of vindictive vandalism that give both Dick and Reggie a thrill but itâs also clear that their activities are escalating towards the more openly criminal.When Reggie finally leaves Dot, he moves in with Dick at the grandmotherâs house and the two find themselves sleeping in the same bed. Their latent attraction to each other is triggered and so begins a tentative but very positive physical and emotional relationship. They even start planning a life together away from their narrow neighbourhood and Dick makes plans for them to join the merchant navy. Needing money to make their plans come true and for Reggie to pay off Dot, the two decide to pull off the robbery of a small cinema without telling Les or the rest of the gang what they are up to. This is a breach of gang etiquette that they know would bring down a swift reprisal if discovered but they decide to risk it.Their plans are exposed by Dot in an act of guilty vindictiveness and despite the fact that the robbery of the cinema has to be aborted, Les and the gang extract a tragic price for their disloyalty.The book was filmed in 1964 and directed by Sidney Furie and itâs easy to see why it would have appealed to a film-maker. The prose is very readable, direct and unadorned and there is no attempt to complicate or justify the relationship that develops between the boys â" and mercifully no attempt to write any explicit sex scenes.The touching diffidence between the central characters, the gentleness of their relationship, stands in stark contrast to the violence of the gang. But itâs also right and good that the boys are not depicted as angels or as stereotypically âgayâ â" in fact the homosexuality which is central to the book is almost taken for granted and the story of two teenage boys looking to escape the limited boundaries of their lives is by far the more important and dominant theme.Jacket design by Oliver Carson.First Edition. Scarce. Price-clipped dust jacket. Remnants of previous protective wrapper tape on prelims.#010624 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. 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Verlag: Anthony Blond, 1961
Anbieter: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. GEORGE, Eliot is a pseudonym which conceals the identity of the well-known woman novelist, Gillian Freeman (1929-2019). [176] pp. 1961 8" x 5.5" Anthony Blond Jacket design by Oliver Carson A novel depicting a gay relationship between two bikers in early '60s London, filmed in 1964 with Rita Tushingham and Colin Campbell; an important early film for queer cinema.