
Lot 170•
TRANSGENDER - BINDING [LILI ELBE] Man into Woman. An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. The True Story of the Miraculous Transformation of the Danish Painter Einar Wegener (Andreas Sparre). Edited by Niels Hoyer [Ernest Harthen], Jarrolds, 1933
23 March 2022, 14:30 GMT
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TRANSGENDER - BINDING
[LILI ELBE] Man into Woman. An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. The True Story of the Miraculous Transformation of the Danish Painter Einar Wegener (Andreas Sparre). Edited by Niels Hoyer [Ernest Harthen], first English edition, translated from the German by H.J. Stenning, introduction by H.J. Stenning, 25 photographic plates (on 22 sheets), light spotting, modern full morocco gilt with design of the transgender pride flag in blue, pink and white morocco on sides, gilt roll-tool decorative border at fore-edges, spine tooled in gilt, 8vo, Jarrolds, 1933
Footnotes
FINELY BOUND TO THE DESIGN OF THE TRANSGENDER PRIDE FLAG in blue, pink and white morocco, the classic account of Danish artist Einar Wegener's pioneering journey from "man into woman", undertaken in the early 1930s.
Lili Elbe's story was filmed as The Danish Girl (2015), for which Eddie Redmayne won an Academy Award playing the title role.