This is a family oriented book published especially for families, friends, and others interested in understanding and learning about transgendered persons. The first edition sold out; this is the expanded second edition, published in 2003. It deals with all ages and types of transgender - FTM, MTF, Intersex, crossdressing, and androgeny. It is an ideal first book for families who want to understand. 
There are seven sections. Section one is comprised of stories written by parents of very young gender variant children, i.e pre-schoolers and school age children who insisted they were not the gender their parents thought they were. Section two is by parents of adult transgenders, each describing their child's coming out process and the journey this revelation started for both the adult child AND the whole family. Section three includes stories by spouses and partners who have weathered the trauma of living through a gender change with their most significant other. Section four is by strategic others - grandparents, siblings, friends, children of trangenders. 
In Section five, transgender folks tell about coming out to their children, with both positive and some painful results. Section Six includes short autobiographies by transgender persons, who are FTM, MTF, Intersex, crossdresser, and androgenous. In Section Seven several psychotherapists talk about common issues transgenders raise in therapy. 
The back matter includes: Glosary of Transgender Terms National Transgender Organizations Transgender Family Reading List ...How to Contact Authors 
Also included are short quotations, quips, poems and items that are both profound and humorous. A quick, fun read.

Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones, 2nd Edition

Parenting & Relationships

Oak Knoll Press

"An autobiographical narrative of the career of British author, bookseller, and book collector Colin Franklin, discussing his life and experiences in the book world. Includes essays on figures in the book trade who have influenced and fascinated Franklin. Illustrated in color and black and white"--

Obsessions and Confessions of a Book Life

Franklin, Colin

"Fine Bookbinding - A Technical Guide" is an unique bookbinding manual that guides you through each stage of making a book bound in leather: a 'fine' binding. It is designed to be used as you work, and is arranged as a numbered index of the processes involved in making your book: the sequence of operations. Once you have identified the stage you are at in the sequence, you simply turn to that number in the main text where you can read an explanation of that process, followed by instructions with photographs or diagrams of how to do it.

Fine Bookbinding: A Technical Guide

Jen Lindsay

Whitley, an artist and researcher into the materials and techniques of medieval illumination, explores the history of manuscript gilding while also describing both the ancient and modern techniques for applying gold leaf to the page. She explains the tools, methods, and materials used in flat, raised, and patterned gilding for both manuscripts and paintings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Gilded Page: The History and Technique of Manuscript Gilding

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Whitley, Kathleen P.

Crafts & Hobbies

This is the latest book in the Publishing Pathways Series. Eight chapters on different aspects of "sharp practices" in the book world. Includes Christopher de Hamel on "Book Thefts in the Middle Ages," Adri K. Offenberg on "The Censorship of Hebrew Books in Sixteenth-Century Italy," Alastair J. Mann on "Some Property is Theft: copyright law and illegal activity in early modern Scotland," Maureen Bell on "Offensive Behaviour in the English Book Trade, 1641-1700," Helen Berry on "Crimes of Conscience: the last will and testament of John Dunton,", Nicholas Pickwoad on "The History of the False Raised Band,", Anthony Hobson on "Guglielmo Libri," and Bill Bell on "Bound for Botany Bay; or, what did the nineteenth-century convict read?" Illustrated and with an index. SALES RIGHTS: Worldwide except in the UK; Available in the UK from The British Library.

Against the Law : Crime, Sharp Practice and the Control of Print

Politics & Social Sciences

Robin MYERS

Social Sciences

A Guide To The Printed Work Of Jessie M. King (

Arts & Photography

WHITE, Colin

History & Criticism

The English as Collectors: A Documentary Sourcebook

Herrmann, Frank

This engaging memoir is an interesting and captivating series of short stories from a noted antiquarian bookseller and head of Bertram Rota, Ltd. Each story focuses on actual events experienced by the author in his daily rounds.  Sometimes humorous, sometimes very poignant, each work shares with the reader the unique bibliographic world of this remarkable man.  Co-published with the Private Libraries Association.

Books in the blood: Memoirs of a fourth generation bookseller

Biographies & Memoirs

Rota, Anthony

Memoirs

First English edition. Low Profile is the autobiography of Frank Herrmann, author, publisher, one-time director of Sotheby's and founder of Bloomsbury Book Auctions. This unique work offers a tantalizing, behind-the-scenes look into the hidden worlds of Herrmann's life and his various careers. Beginning with his early years as a book designer at Faber publishers of TS Eliot , the author then shares the times when he had the good fortune to work for firms who published Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Shepard illustrator of A A Milnes's books , Beatrice Potter, Mrs. Beeton and a host of other famous figures in the writing world. Herrmann continues his story, describing his stormy career as a Sotheby's director and then becoming the founder of his own publishing company and antiquarian book auction house. This well-written text is illustrated with many rare photographs of the "movers and shakers" of the British publishing world. Book is cocked. 408 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Low Profile: A Life in the World of Books

Vision of Simeon Solomon

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