Avery Willard (15 results)

Wraps. First edition. Includes illustrations. Very good. light shelfwear, no ownership marks 8 page pamphlet on the ship.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Werner, Paul Avery (illustrator). VG+ grey paper covers are lightly tanned with a couple of tiny waterspots at spine edge. The colored folding map is attached and lightly tanned. 40 pages are lightly tanned. 8vo, .75 pounds.

"Warner Bros. Entertainment France collection , 1998. 1 volume format DVD bon Format : DVD.

Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, services, ads, personals, reviews, articles, misfold and wear at spine fold, good on newsprint. Several pages of AIDS news. Gay Movement news. Chip Henson centerfold and cover.

Newspaper. 24p., unfolded tabloid newspaper, photos, services, ads, personals, reviews, articles, very good on newsprint. Gay newspaper editor and publisher Lige Clark murdered in Mexico. Photo-montage of Mardis Gras in NOLA. Leather Scene.

Newspaper. 24p., very good tabloid newspaper on newsprint, photos, services, ads, personals, reviews, articles. King was actually celebrity photographer Avery Willard who also photographed drag performers including himself.

Condition: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Newspaper. 24p., unfolded tabloid newspaper, photos, services, ads, personals, reviews, articles, very good on newsprint. Female Impersonator Chris Moore died. Full page announcement of Rocky Horror Picture Show with Tim Curry in Frankenfurter drag. Obits for Ralph Gleason, Ozzie Nelson, Larry Blyden.

Newspaper. 28p., unfolded tabloid newspaper, photos, services, ads, personals, reviews, articles, very good on newsprint. McQueen & Newman from "The Towering Inferno" and Stockard Channing and jack Nicholson from "The Fortune" cover photos. Fire Island report. Obits include Moe Howard,

Newspaper. 24p., unfolded tabloid newspaper, photos, services, ads, personals, reviews, articles, very good on newsprint. Cover story and review of the film "Mandigo" with stills. Obits include Mary Ure & Josephine Baker.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. LEATHER! Compiled Under the Direction of Avery Willard. Published by Guild Press LTD., Washington, D.C., 1965, first edition. Original illustrated textured wraps, side staple bound, 8.5" x 5.25", 72 pages, illustrated with 64 pages of black and white homoerotic photographs featuring leather, whips, chains, rope, and motorcycles. NEAR FINE CONDITION: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, just 9 copies in OCLC collections worldwide. "Men of Leather," was the first American gay male manifesto of leather Identity, a defining four page essay on leather subculture followed by an archetypal collection of photographs from the 1950s and 1960s from six studios, Chuck Renslow's Kris Studio of Chicago, Avery Willard of New York, Bob Anthony of New York, Scott of London, David of Cleveland, and R. A. Enterprises. Guild Press was a pioneering homomasculine publisher of gay oriented physique magazines in the 1950s. In 1962 Guild won an important legal victory to distribute publications with gay erotic content. Avery Willard (aka Bruce King) 1921-1999, provocative and groundbreaking New York City artist, photographer, experimental filmmaker, writer, publisher, leatherman, actor, pornographer, publisher, drag historian and gay rights activist. In 1967 he created the classic gay film "Leather Narcissus" starring New York leather icon Fernando, following the Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village in 1968, under the pen name Bruce King, Willard published "Gay Scene" until 1992. A trailblazer of the queer art movement, Willard produced a lifetime of historically significant work that has remained widely unseen for decades.

Magazine. 40p. includes covers, 5.25x8.75 inches, illustrated with b&w nude male physique photos and drawings, price sticker on cover else a very good digest size magazine in pictorial wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Woods, Rex (cover art); Avery Willard; Wagner, Garry; Nott, Herb; Davis, Walt; HAnley, Dick; Curtin, Walter; Brihat, Denis; Jones, Art; Dennit, Bill; Ragsdale, Robert; Bell, Joseph N.; Steele, JohnHarrison, Lois; Reppin, Dieter; Koenig, Wolf (illustrator). First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Beverley Baxter on Censorship and Sex; Nice one-page colour ad for Oldsmobile featuring a convertible and little flower girl in back seat; A look forward to the fall TV lineup - article with many photos; Theo Parker's One-Man War Against the State - hog farmer resists Hog Board - article with photos of Parker in barn and with his wife Laura; The Native Genius We've Never Discovered - Montreal artist Jean-Paul Riopelle - article with colour photos; Vancouver's Enchanted Evenings Under the Stars - Theatre Under the Stars - article with photos; The Canada Aerial Surveyor Douglas Kendall Sees From the Sky - article with photos; We Travel With Our Kids - And Like It! - article with photos of how Joseph N. Bell and his family vacation by car; Colour General Motors centrefold ad called "The Saturday Trip to the Moon" features grocery store scene with little boy in spaceship ride; Coke ad on back cover shows beach couple admiring their instant photos; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Condition: vg+, clean copy. Unusual photo illustrated, staplebound book from Guild Press. Models include Bob Ray (Policeman), Bob Jackson (Cowboy), Tony Crane (Roman Soldier), Guy Roberts (N.Y. Cavalry Dress 1890), David Allen (Bellboy), Stan Gregory (U.S. Army), Gary Adams (German), Neal Miller (U.S. Sailor), Wayne Roberts (U.S. Marine), Rick Edwards (Fireman), Mike Crane (Paragtrooper), Lee Carr (British Guardsman), Louis Brown (Construction Worker), Gary Adams (Scottish), Larry Perioer (Motorcyclist). Photographed and compiled by Willard.

Compiled under the direction of Avery Willard. Washington : Guild Press Ltd., 1965. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly creased), pp. [72], central pages neatly detached, a couple of pages marked, illustrated with full page black and white photographs of fantasy scenes of men in various dress and undress of leather. Does not include full frontal nudity. Includes a four page introductory essay on the appeal of leather. Very scarce and early illustrated exploration of leather worship, extensively illustrated with models acting out leather fantasies. Avery Willard was a prominent photographer, filmmaker, actor, publisher, and gay rights activist. His archives are held at the New York Public Library.