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

From presses similar to Gutenberg's wine press to the mechanical marvels of the 1890s, this visually remarkable work contains the largest collection of printing equipment illustrations and advertisements to date. A careful study of the more than 480 rare woodcuts and engravings of Hand, Cylinder, Platen, Lever, Lithographic, and Rotary presses will reveal the subtle and major changes each manufacturer made to enhance his machine's productivity and printing quality. Never before has the printing or publishing historian had such a comprehensive resource at his disposal. This work truly captures the engineering technology of a bygone age. The author has spent 30 years gathering and compiling this information, a true labor of love. This second, expanded edition has over 150 new illustrations. 272 pages. hardcover, dust jacket. 9 x 12 inches.

A Catalogue of Nineteenth Century Printing Presses

Harold E. Sterne

Reference

"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

The business of Stephenson Blake and Company grew from modest beginnings in 1818 into a business that dominated the typefounding industry in Britain. Roy Millington charts the history of this typefoundery, with particular focus on the changing technical and social milieu in which the company operated.

Stephenson Blake: The Last of the Old English Typefounders

Millington, Roy

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

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

Herrmann, Frank

Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler Inventor of the Linotype

Carl Schlesinger

Professionals & Academics

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