Conundrum
MORRIS, Jan.
London: Faber and Faber. 1974.
Description:
First edition. 8vo. 215x135mm. pp. 160. Publisher's brown cloth, original illustrated dustjacket with photograph of Morris on the lower cover. Protected by a plastic cover. A fine, near mint copy of Jan Morris's moving and beautifully written account of her trans-sexuality. She begins the book with the statement that the earliest memory of her life was the recognition that "I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl". Morris's story is well known but it is instructive to revisit what she describes as "a tangle in my life" and note the determination with which she addressed that tangle. And it is important to be reminded of her dedication of the book to "all my comrades, anywhere in the world, who are suffering still in the same solitary and unsought cause".
Description:
First edition. 8vo. 215x135mm. pp. 160. Publisher's brown cloth, original illustrated dustjacket with photograph of Morris on the lower cover. Protected by a plastic cover. A fine, near mint copy of Jan Morris's moving and beautifully written account of her trans-sexuality. She begins the book with the statement that the earliest memory of her life was the recognition that "I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl". Morris's story is well known but it is instructive to revisit what she describes as "a tangle in my life" and note the determination with which she addressed that tangle. And it is important to be reminded of her dedication of the book to "all my comrades, anywhere in the world, who are suffering still in the same solitary and unsought cause".