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[email protected] With Gertrude Stein’s Only Blurb 2 Earl LIND (“Ralph Werther” — “Jennie June”). 1 Charles [Henri] FORD and Parker TYLER. Autobiography of an Androgyne. New York: The Medico-Legal Journal 1919. The Young and Evil. Paris: Obelisk Press (1933). First edition. Edited and Introduction by Alfred First edition. Self-wrappers. Brown W. Herzog, Ph.D., A.M., M.D. 265pp. Boards butcher paper wrappers printed in show some wear with spine gilt rubbed, rear red. A very good or better copy that hinge starting, and ever so slightly cocked, about is a trifle cocked, and with small near fine. Owner’s blind stamp on the front free tears and nicks at the spine ends. A endpaper and title page. The earliest known notorious and exceptionally scarce American autobiography of a transgender man; a novel of homosexual life in frank memoir of the life of a cross-dressing Greenwich Village. Parker met Ford hustler on the streets of New York in the late 19th Century who ultimately decided on while writing for Ford’s castration to help regulate his behavior. The first of a proposed trilogy, but only one other amateurishly produced Blues book was published, The Female Impersonators in 1922. The book features four photos of magazine, which was published in the author: one as a child and three as an adult. Originally available only by mail to Ford’s parents’ home in Mississippi during 1929-30.