Search Results: I Want What I Want by Geoff Brown

Valancourt Books, 2018. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

Orion Publishing Co, 2018. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 5.24x7.83x0.67 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. A reissue of Geoff Brown's groundbreaking classic novel about a man who wants to be a woman. Published in 1966, I Want What I Want was one of the first novels to explore the life of a trans woman.

Panther Books 1968. Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

VALANCOURT BOOKS. New. Special order direct from the distributor

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Berkley Publishing Corporation. Good. A novel of obsessive desire, the nightmare world of the trans-sexual." S1525, 1968 edition. Good. Light to moderate shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. Mass market paperback binding. We have a lot more Continental Classics, erotica and porn available.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1966. First Edition. 226 pages. Cream dust jacket with purple lettering over black cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Dewy code to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Moderate tanning to spine. Notable staining and soiling to DJ.

New York: Putnam, 1967. First Printing of First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. vi, 226 pages 22 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: Spine ends pushed and just the very hint of fading to cover edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Shelf wear and chipping to spine ends but completely intact and showing nicely. Published right around the time when John's Hopkins performed the first sex change operation in the United States.

NY: Putnam. VG+/VG. 1967. 1st US. hardcover. 12mo . 226pp . Prev owner's name and small label first 2 end papers, tad of a sun-line at edges. 1/4" tear, bit of edgewear to DJ. Scarce. .

G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The dust jacket is rubbed across both top and bottom edges, short tear at the top of the front fold over, small chip at the top right of the spine. Small chip at the bottom of the rear fold over. Age toning of the page edges, grubby market the top of the front free end page, where pencil prices have been overwritten and rubbed out. Internally clean, no annotations, no marking no foxing. "What young Roy Clark wants to be is a woman. To his widower father, he is strange and incomprehensible. To his married sister, he is a misguided youth in need of sympathy and counselling. To self, he is a woman hopelessly trapped within a man's body. His painstaking and inevitably tragic efforts to realise what he feels is his true self form the heart of this novel." – Front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying… Read More

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. slight rubbing of the edges of the illustrated dust jacket, darkening of the page edges, and the right-hand margin of the front end page has been grazed upon by silverfish taking a thin layer of the paper surface. No other damage to describe. "what he wants is to be not a man but a woman. Eventually a small legacy enables him, not to have the operation in which he has set his heart, but at least to masquerade as a woman, with such success that an entirely normal man, unaware of his sex, falls in love with him. But the deception inevitably ends in tragedy." – From fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VI, 226 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Gender; Inventory No: 0279219. .

NY: G.P. PUTNAM'S & SONS. VERY RARE IN HARDCOVER! "I TOLD MYSELF THAT I MUST STOP BEING ASHAMED. IT WAS A DISHONEST FEELING. REALLY I WAS GLAD THAT I WAS AS I WAS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEST TO BE A WOMAN, BUT IT WAS BETTER TO BE A TRANSVESTITE THAN TO BE A MAN." . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1967.