Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1964. First edition. 246pp; [16] b&w plates. Brownish-grey cloth over boards; dust jacket. Spotting to textblock top; foxing to endpages and to leaves opposite plates. Unclipped jacket with edge wear and short tears at spine ends. About very good.
First edition of this colorful autobiography by American exotic dancer, hairdresser, and LGBTQ advocate Kenneth Marlowe (1926-1980), who in 1975 transitioned to Katherine "Kate" Marlowe Bies; details, among other things, Marlowe's sexual coming of age as a gay man, career as a female impersonator, and life as a sex-worker, particularly as the "madam" of a male brothel. Introduction by Leonard A. Lowag; foreword by T. C. Jones.
