Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

41 c (LILI ELBE) NIELS HOYER Man Into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. Introduction by prominent British sexologist, Norman Haire, Ch.M., M.B. 25 photographic plates with captions. Thick 8vo, gilt-lettered black cloth; some faint spotting to spine and rear cover; original pictorial dust jacket with wrap-around band containing blurb by Dr. Norman Haire, very light edgewear, otherwise very bright; scattered light foxing. London: Jarrolds, 1933. [400/600] first edition of the autobiographical work and story of one of the first gender con ­ firmation surgeries , performed on Danish painter, Lili Elbe in 1930. Elbe, born Einar Wegener, was the spouse and model of the artist Gerda Wegener. Although the book is listed as written by Niels Hoyer, a pseudonym for Ernst Ludwig Hathorn Jacobson, Lili was the true author of the book. Jacobson, Elbe’s friend and editor, assembled and edited her letters and diary, and dictated material to form the book. Her recollections describe her experiences as a pre-war transgender individual and serve as a resource for trans history. 41 42 42 c ANTONIO BOTTO (1897-1959) Canções. Photographic portrait tipped to one leaf. 8vo, modern red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments; original wrappers bound in; last 18 pages with tissue-paper mend to tear along blank margin. [Lisbon]: Olisipo, 1922. [350/500] second edition , issued by fernando pessoa . Botto ran afoul of the authorities when the book was banned in 1923 for its explicit gay content. Pessoa translated these poems into English, eventually publishing them in translation in 1948. with - O meu manifesto a toda a gente. Printed broadside. Folds.