EBERSHOFF, David.

£450 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Danish Girl. First UK edition, first impression, following the US edition of the preceding year. Presentation copy from the author to A. S. Byatt, inscribed on the title page: "March 15, 2000, For Antonia, Many good wishes to a good friend of the Modern Library, and of mine. With much gratitude for your support of my nascent writing career. Yours, David" and with her ownership inscription. Ebershoff's novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe (1882-1931), one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, whose autobiography, Man into Woman, was published posthumously in 1933.

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