April Ashley's Odyssey (signed copy)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

Signed by the Author on the titlepage beneath his struck out printed name. First Edition. Original bright pink cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-wrapper. 287 pages; 16 photographic plates. A Fine copy. In 1960, at the age of 25, Ashley had sex reassignment surgery performed in Casablanca, Morocco. An English model, author, and LGBT rights activist, she performed under the stage name Toni April at Le Carrousel de Paris in Paris. Ashley was outed as a transgender woman by The Sunday People in 1961 and was one of the earliest British people known to have had gender confirmation surgery. Her first marriage, to the future 3rd Baron Rowallan, was annulled in the High Court.