{"product_id":"larry-townsend-the-leatherman-s-handbook-1972","title":"Larry Townsend — The Leatherman's Handbook (1972)","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Traveller's Companion (Olympia Press), New York, 1972\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition, paperback original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pictorial wrappers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good: water damage to the back cover and the edge of the text block, rippling to the rear pages; creased spine and covers, edge wear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Townsend wrote The Leatherman's Handbook from inside the Los Angeles leather scene: the first practical guide to gay S\/M culture, covering its etiquette, its codes of dress, its safety and its psychology of power, and treating as a community with its own ethics what psychiatry still classed as pathology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was published in 1972 as a paperback original by the Traveller's Companion, the imprint of Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press, the house that first published Lolita and Naked Lunch in Paris. It became the standard text for a generation, was revised as The Leatherman's Handbook II (1983) and later as The Ultimate Leatherman's Handbook, and is now a primary source for the history of leather culture. Townsend died in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Larry Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894719283517,"sku":"DI-058","price":240.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/01.jpg?v=1793728556","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/larry-townsend-the-leatherman-s-handbook-1972","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}