Roberta Cowell - Roberta Cowell's Story by Herself

William Heinemann, London, 1954. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 22cm x 14.5cm. xi, 154 pages, frontispiece, [26] pages of black and white illustrations. Blue cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket. Scarce autobiography of British race car driver, WWII fighter pilot, and first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1948 after Michael Dillon (British physician and the first trans man to undergo FtM surgery) performed an inguinal orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) on Cowell. Very Good Condition in Good Jacket. Minor tanning and very minor foxing. Previous owner's name (written multiple times). Clipped jacket with chunk from spine tail. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: LGBTIQ+ Gender Diversity; Inventory No: 0033080.