NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976. Xiv, 690pp; index. Large, thick 8vo. Red cloth; white and black spine titles; dust jacket. Mild shelfwear; toning to textblock edges. Near fine in a very good (+) jacket, unclipped, with a few short closed edge tears, light crumpling at spine ends.
Sharp first printing of this landmark work, which broke ground in shedding light on the long-overlooked legacy of LGBTQIA+ individuals in American history. A carefully collated selection of hundreds of documentary texts spanning the 16th to 20th centuries, as arranged chronologically in six sections, one of which ("Passing Women") consists entirely of writings by and about women who successfully passed as men in society. Also notable for containing a selection of writings by Ralph Werther/Jennie June/Earl Lind, author of Autobiography of an Androgyne(1918) and The Female Impersonators(1922). Jonathan Katz (b. 1938) is an American author and scholar of human sexuality, as well as the recipient of both the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal and Yale's University's Brudner Prize; his papers are held by the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.
