The Trouble With Harry Hay: founder of the modern gay movement
by [Hay, Harry] Stuart Timmons
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1555831753
- ISBN 13
- 9781555831752
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Alyson Publications, 1990. xvii, 317p. + 16p. photos, first edition, previous owner's bookplate fep else a very good first edition in buckram cloth boards, gilt, and price-clipped dj with sunned spine. Hay's radical life went from Hollywood (and the Communist Party) radicalism through founding the Mattachine Society and the Radical Faeries.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142778
- Title
- The Trouble With Harry Hay: founder of the modern gay movement
- Author
- [Hay, Harry] Stuart Timmons
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1555831753
- ISBN 13
- 9781555831752
- Publisher
- Alyson Publications
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gay Studies; Labor - American; Communist Party USA; Utopian movements and literature; Biography;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Buckram
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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