Astounding Transvestite Tales, Vol. 1, No. 2

Seattle: Empathy Press, 1972. 36pp; b&w illus. Saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. Light soiling and wear to covers; very good.

Second issue of this long-running series of transvestite fiction, featuring three stories: "The Belle of the Ball," by Daphne, with two black-and-white line drawings attributed same; the uncredited "An Extremely Fortunate Hitch-Hiker"; and "A Change of Roles" by Donna Keane. Though fiction was later to become the core staple of Cathy Slavic's Empathy Press, at this point in the imprint's history it was still something of a side-line to their more community-oriented periodicals such as The Transvestite and New Trenns.