April Ashley’s Odyssey

First edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 287pp + [xvi] ills from photographs. Bright pink cloth lettered in silver to spine. Contemporary gift inscription to ffe. Jacket with slight rubbing to edges. A near fine copy. *** Memoirs by April Ashley (born George Jamieson), a model, actress and transgender rights pioneer who underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1960 (aged 25). After appearing the film The Road to Hong Kong, she was outed by the Tabloids as transgender, starting a long road to be recognised as a woman; she ended up in court defending her rights.