Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937 Dan Auiler Dutton & Company New York

Dutton & Company New York

A neat little red hardbacked book with dust-jacket

Sotheby's 10 May 2016

Weight   824g

Paul Pry - For Your Convenience, George Routledge, 1937 Dan Auiler Dutton & Company New YorkPaul 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,