Over the Sex Border. Change of Sex: A Comprehensive Study

Hugely important work on transsexuality by an author who was assigned male gender at birth, served in the Royal Navy and practised as a male dentist before undergoing a sex change as an adult. She was the first trans woman in Britain to marry. The book is part autobiography, part scholarly study of an issue which was at the time poorly documented, little understood and highly taboo. Foreword by the sexologist Kenneth Walker. The book was never reprinted by Gollancz and most copies of an already small print run were either remaindered or pulped. This is the only copy in a dust-wrapper available worldwide at the time of listing. Blue cloth lettered in gilt with light foxing to page edges. Unclipped, protected dust-wrapper with minor wear at the corners. Very rare in this condition and deserving of a place in a major collection.