Harry Benjamin Intro (4 results)

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in brown dust jacket; ix,[1],495pp. Light wear to jacket extremities; Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First published in the United States a year earlier.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NY: Paul S. Ericksson, 1967. xvii, 332pp; [8]pp b&w plates at center. White marbled paper over boards; gray quarter cloth; dust jacket. Near fine, with light toning to edges of textblock. Unclipped jacket with a 1" closed tear at base of rear panel, a few pinpricks of loss at spine ends. Signed and inscribed by Jorgensen to half-title verso. First edition of this autobiography by American actress, singer, and activist Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989). Jorgensen's gender affirming surgeries of the 1950s were widely covered in the media, making her one of the most high-profle transgender people of her generation?a celebrity status she capitalized on both as a performer and in her role as an advocate for trans rights. A nice copy of an important and epochal work, with introduction by Harry Benjamin. Inscribed by Author(s).

HARD BACK GRAY/WHITE. Condition: VERY GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. some spotting along page foredges, few pages of black/white photos, dustjacket has about a 2" tear on back cover near spine, mylar covered unclipped dustjacket DATE PUBLISHED: 1967 EDITION: 332.

Condition: Good. First Edition. [New York: The Daily Worker, ca. 1946]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 14,[2]pp.; illus. Stock exceedingly brittle and browned due to inferior paper quality, leaves almost all separated at spine (but still present), small chips to margins including one affecting the word "Dixie" on upper cover. Good at best. Pamphlet distributed following the murder of two Black men, brothers Charles and Alphonso Ferguson, at the hand of a white police officer. The brothers had served during World War II and the rear wrapper is adorned with a portrait of Charles's widow Minnie with their three sons. "They are bright, well-behaved little boys. They have no toys and few other children's necessities enjoyed by most little white boys in the village. Their mother dreams of them growing up in the kind of world their father fought for.".