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Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937
Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937
Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937
Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937
Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937

Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937

Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937

The book, originally published in 1937, is ostensibly a guide to public conveniences (gentlemen's loos) in London.  Significance: It is widely understood to be the first queer city guide, providing coded information on where men could meet other men in an era when homosexuality was illegal.  Genre: It is considered a work of social history with a wry and playful tone.  Author: The author, Paul Pry, was a pseudonym used by Thomas Burke, known for works like Limehouse Nights.

Green cloth in fine condition.  Four white spots to front cloth.  Bumped spine ends.  Corners bumped.  Foxing to top page edges.  Text firm and clean.

Weight   215g.    Pages   71.