first edition
1946 · London
by Dillon, Michael
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1946. First Edition. First edition, first printing. vi, 128 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Very Good or better dust jacket with wear along edges, scuff to front wrap, toning to back panel, price intact (6s net). A nice copy.
British physician, later Buddhist monk Michael Dillon has been called "the first trans man," due largely to his being the first person to undergo a phalloplasty. He wrote this first book, a medical/psychological/philosophical work on sexuality and gender, without mentioning his own experiences. He argued with regards to transsexualism, "Where the mind cannot be made to fit the body, the body should be made to fit, approximately at any rate, to the mind"-- quite a controversial assertion at the time. Copies of the first edition are scarce. (Inventory #: 140946349)
British physician, later Buddhist monk Michael Dillon has been called "the first trans man," due largely to his being the first person to undergo a phalloplasty. He wrote this first book, a medical/psychological/philosophical work on sexuality and gender, without mentioning his own experiences. He argued with regards to transsexualism, "Where the mind cannot be made to fit the body, the body should be made to fit, approximately at any rate, to the mind"-- quite a controversial assertion at the time. Copies of the first edition are scarce. (Inventory #: 140946349)