LGBTIQ+ Gender Diversity
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On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories
$80.00 Add to cartMark Seliger
New York: Rizzoli, 2016.
Photo book of the transgender community in New York’s Greenwich Village. -
Reportage No 38: Numero Exceptionnel: Homme-Femme, Hermaphrodite ou Travestis
$100.00 Add to cartJacques Jacquet
Paris: Reportage, 1968.
Special issue of the French magazine Reportage on intersex, transsexuality, and crossdressing. -
West of the Wind
$300.00 Add to cartDavid Marinoff
New York: Vantage Press, 1969.
“This is the fantastic tal eof Raymond Richards, self-styled ex-star of a “gay” night club in San Francisco, presently in Greenwich Village, where he is in the female-impersonator racket in a clip joint. But it won’t be for long… From night-dive queen in a Village joint, Raymond zooms to heady, blatant insecurity as an arts-and-antiques “expert” in a luxury apartment, all the way talking himself in and out of deals slick and spurious…” YOUNG 2510. -
Slave to My Sister! (3 Volumes)
$400.00 Add to cartWanda Rogers
New York: Lee’s Mardi Gras, 1984-1986.
Complete set of this femdom forced feminisation crossdressing fiction serial. A sister and her two friends take revenge on the underwear fetish pervert of a little brother. Published by New York drag queen, trans rights activist, ball promoter, and crossdressing boutique owner Lee Brewster. First volume cover illustration by Wanda, second and third by Minutello. Advertisements and original catalogue stickers of Lee’s Mardi Gras Boutique on the rear covers. -
Transvestite and Transsexual Tales 1
$250.00 Add to cartNeptune Productions
Belmar: Neptune Productions, No date.
American crossdressing and trans journal. Erotically charged with photospreads, fiction, and personal ads, also contains a review of a talk on gender roles, personal stories, and a reprint of Surgery for the Transsexual by Leo Wollman from The Journal of Sex Research. Unrecorded in OCLC. -
JoAnn Robert’s Art & Illusion Companion
$120.00 Add to cartJoAnn Roberts
King of Prussia, PA: Creative Design Services, 1990.
A supplement to the second edition of Art & Illusion, a practical guide to crossdressing, with additional photographs illustrating the application of makeup, an enlarged section on cosmetic surgery, new information about ethnic makeup, and additional information about choosing clothing. -
Transitional Demands: Trans People & the Welfare State #1
$40.00 Add to cartAction for Trans Health
[London?]: Action for Trans Health, No date.
Circa 2017 zine with a series of articles about trans issues in the United Kingdom. -
The Coronation of Emperor III of San Francisco
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First Edition.
27.5cm x 21cm. 28 pages (including wrappers), black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Program for the coronation of the Emperor of San Francisco, a gay community leader, at the Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Palace Hotel, September 14, 1974. Foreword by Russ, the second Emperor, and signed by him. Includes numerous tributes and advertisements for local bars, clubs, and businesses. Laid in is a sheet listing The Court of H. I. M. Russ, Emperor II of San Francisco.
Very minor tanning. Near Fine Condition. -
The Male Impersonator
$150.00 Add to cartE. F. Benson
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929.
The Male Impersonator is one of two short stories and six novels published in the author’s Mapp and Lucia series, later adapted as a television serial. The series features a cast of mainly upper class English people, who could be described as genteel dilettantes, as they navigate their way through the minor outrages of polite society. In The Male Impersonator, Miss Mapp has to deal with the arrival to their small town of Lady Deal, who in a previous life, had a history of performing as a male impersonator. ‘To think that a male impersonator should to Tilling and take one of the best houses in the place! Why, it might as well have remained empty!’ Limited to 530 numbered copies, this being one of 30 copies for presentation, signed by the author. -
L’Hermaphrodite (2 Volumes)
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First Edition.
18.5cm x 9cm. 156; 163 pages, 2 volumes. Lettered wrappers. Text is in French.
The pornographic story of a young hermaphrodite novice at the convent by Aphonse Momas published clandestinely under his Nismois pseudonym by Duringe. DUTEL 376.
Minor foxing and tanning. Light creasing to spine of vol. 2. Very Good Condition. -
Les Confessions d’un Travesti
$150.00 Add to cart[Eric Losfeld]
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1956.
Les Grandes Etues Francaises de Psychiatrie No. 1, an aggrandizing imprint and seemingly a once-off published by Eric Losfeld’s Le Terrain Vague imprint. Autobiographical psycho-social confessions of a 43 year old married heterosexual male cross-dresser and female underwear fetishist. Illustrated with 5 photographic plates of the author in various states of undress. -
Pierre Molinier: Die Fetische der Travestie: Fotografische Arbeiten, 1965-1975
$1,500.00 Add to cartPierre Molinier; Gerhard Fischer; Peter Gorsen
Wien: Daedalus, 1989.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Faber, Vienna, with 33 plates, essays by Pierre Molinier, Gerhard Fischer, and Peter Gorsen, and additional illustrations by Molinier. This copy with 4 additional Molinier items laid in: 1. An original silver gelatin photograph 10.2cm x 12.9cm, plate 49 of The Shaman, 1964, from a photograph by Theo Lesoual’ch of Emmanuelle Arsan retouched in ink by Molinier and rephotographed, captioned on the verso in pencil; 2. A black stocking with Molinier’s signature printed in gold from the 1996 Ubu Gallery, New York exhibition; 3. Invitation card for the Ubu Gallery exhibition; 4. Typescript letter with manuscript signature of Roger Borderie of C.L.S. Edition-Diffusion and publisher of the 1979 collection of Molinier’s Cent photographies erotiques, to Nicolas Hugent of Editions Filipacchi, dated 1986, regarding publication of a new Molinier work based on an interview with his daughter. -
I Am Loving (Strangely)
$150.00 Add to cartDwayne Simpson
New York: Lancer Books, 1969.
Transsexual pulp fiction. -
Jennifer: Woman By Choice
$100.00 Add to cartJennifer Fontaine
Chatsworth: World-Wide Publishing Company, 1981.
Trans pulp produced by Hustler. Includes 6 sets of before and after photos. -
Wildside’s Catalogue #3, 1994
$150.00 Add to cartWildside
Toronto: Take A Walk On The Wildside, 1993.
Canadian 1990s catalogue of fashion for the male crossdresser. Includes makeup, wigs, bras, crinolines, skirts, pettipants, maid costumes, and more. Goes a little beyond the standard catalogue with a letter to the editor, and with most items modelled in real life, the copy reads more like a queer drag zine. -
Queen of the Square Dance
$50.00 Add to cartAnonymous
: No publisher, No date.
Reprint of an anonymous femdom forced feminisation crossdressing fiction. “If you are wet and dirty and Hitch-Hiking on a lonely road who is going to stop and pickup you up? Terry found out; and it was a one way trip to FEMININITY!” Cover illustration by Erica, dated 1977. -
The Transsexual Phenomenon
$300.00 Add to cartHarry Benjamin
New York: Warner Books, 1977.
A scientific report on transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female. Regarded as the first medical textbook on the subject and pivotal in the development of modern transgender studies. The first paperback edition 11 years after the first edition by The Julian Press in 1966. -
The Official Cockettes T.M. Paper Doll Book
$180.00 Add to cartJohn Flowers; Clay Geerdes
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1971.
Paper dolls of the acid drag hippie theatre troupe, Cockettes, all dressed in their finest drag for their New York City trip. -
The Virgin Sperm Dancer
$600.00 Add to cartWilliam Levy; Ginger Gordon
The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978.
An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. A classic publication from the age of sexual liberation, The virgin sperm dancer is an early photobook which illustrates the story of Joop, a young Dutch man who experiences a day transformed as Joopie, a sexually awakened woman. Published as a Suck Special Issue of the Amsterdam-based pornography magazine Suck, The virgin sperm dancer clearly aims to titillate with its uncensored graphic photographs of the escapades in this fantasy. However through the lengthy narrative and exploration of the versatility of sexual experience, Sperm Dancer finds itself as a prototype for later works that explore sexual freedom and concepts of gender. Through depictions of free love in Amsterdam in the 70s with a focus on transsexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality, Sperm dancer avoids gender paradigms of masculinity and power, and includes women’s sexual empowerment and orgasm as a focus of the work. Unusually for a sex magazine, this standalone publication does not appear to pitch its eroticism to a particular sexuality but rather embraces the versatility of sexual experience as being its greatest appeal. The virgin sperm dancer was immediately influential and homaged on the cover of the September 1972 issue of London Oz. A second edition was published in 1978. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws. Written by William Levy. Photographs by Ginger Gordon. This second printing copy signed by William Levy on the title page and inscribed by him to the wrappers verso, For Marta Norman – I became you – Bill 25 IX 78, and with the promotional flyer reproducing the title page laid in. -
T*
$50.00 Add to cartGiordano Bonora
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.
“This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bologna’s small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflect–during a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identity–attempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy in the publisher’s plastic wrap. -
Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910
$40.00 Add to cartNoah Riseman
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023.
“The first book on Australian trans history exploring the lives and impacts of trans and gender-diverse Australians. Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they’ve lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, worked on the streets or run for parliament. But over the last century there have been remarkable changes in how they have identified and expressed themselves. Transgender Australia is the first book to chart the changing social, medical, legal and lived experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia since 1910. Drawing on over a hundred oral history interviews and previously unexamined documents and media reports, it highlights how trans people have tried to live authentically while navigating a society that often treated them like outcasts.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag
$35.00 Add to cartCraig Seligman
Sydney: Hachette, 2023.
“An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish. In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that welcomes and even celebrates queer people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’s short but overstuffed life as a way to provide some answers. There were effectively three Dorises – the quiet visual artist, the glorious drag queen, and the hunky male prostitute who supported the other two. He started performing in Sydney in 1972 as a member of Sylvia and the Synthetics, a psycho troupe that represented the first anarchic flowering of queer creative energy in the post-Stonewall era. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-70s, he became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash – which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire’s deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it. Seligman recounts this dynamic period in queer history – from Stonewall to AIDS – giving insight into how our ideas about gender have broadened to make drag the phenomenon we know it as today. In a book filled with interviews and letters about a life that ricocheted between hilarity and tragedy, he revisits the places and people Doris knew in order to shed light on the multi-hued era that his remarkable life encapsulated.” (publisher’s blurb) -
The Myth of the Wrong Body
$25.00 Add to cartMiquel Misse
Cambridge: Polity, 2022.
“The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body — that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Misse, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical intervention – to the use of hormones and surgical operations. By proposing a particular solution (modifying one’s body), doctors and psychiatrists make it difficult for trans people to overcome malaise about their body in other ways and prevent them from recognizing the burden of social norms. Drawing on his own personal experience, Misse makes the case for a different way of thinking about trans embodiment which focuses on gender identity. The trajectory that leads people to become trans is shaped by the rigidity of gender norms, where the only two models available to individuals are the masculine man and the feminine woman. But these are not the only possible choices, and by critically interrogating the rigidity of gender norms, Misse opens up a different way of thinking about being trans, beyond the essentialism of the medical paradigm.” (publisher’s blurb) Translated from Spanish by Frances Riddle. -
Roberta Cowell’s Story by Herself
$1,000.00 Add to cartRoberta Cowell
London: William Heinemann, 1954.
Scarce autobiography of British race car driver, WWII fighter pilot, and first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1948 after Michael Dillon (British physician and the first trans man to undergo FtM surgery) performed an inguinal orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) on Cowell. -
Wandering Son (Volume One)
$150.00 Add to cartShimura Takako
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011.
The first in an eight volume series by Takako which explores the friendship between two transgender adolescents, Suichi and Yoshino. -
Sons of the Movement: FtMs Risking Incoherence on a Post-Queer Cultural Landscape
$55.00 Add to cartJean Bobby Noble
Toronto: Women’s Press, 2006.
“Documents the female-to-male (FtM) transition process from an insider’s point of view, and details the limitations of both surgical procedures and pronouns. J. Bobby Noble challenges both the expectations of masculinity and white masculinity. As a result, this text is equally invested in creating both gender trouble and race trouble, calling for a new provocative analysis of the field of gender studies.” (publisher’s blurb) -
The Drag Queens of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide
$40.00 Add to cartJulian Fleisher
London: Pandora, 1997. -
The Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality: Changing Gender to Match Mindset
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First Edition.
24.5cm x 16cm. xv, 238 pages. Black boards, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
. Fine Condition. -
Not Only Black + White Magazine Number 14
$10.00 Add to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1995.
Single issue of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. In this issue: The Douglas Brothers, Spencer Tunick, Alex Donnini, Joyce Baronio, Brad Roaman, Richard Weinstein, Michael Burns, Berjot and Rosa, Renato Grome, James Elliott, Stephanie Kelly, James Cant, Marie Baronnet, Craig Arnold, Pete Thiedeke, plus features on Madonna, Woody Harrelson, plus Jon McCormack’s computer art, AI, and cross-dressing in film. -
Sex Change and Dress Deviation
$40.00 Add to cartGilbert Oakley
London: Morntide, 1970.
A psychological study of transvestites and transsexuals.