LOT 4010
2nd April 2025
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LOT 4010
GAY LITERATURE. – [Thomas BURKE.] ‘Paul Pry’. For Your Convenience, A Learned Dialogue Instructive To all Londoners and London Visitors. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1937. First edition, 8vo (183 x 120mm.) Illustrated title-page and illustrated endpapers by Philip Gough. (Toning, slight spotting to margins of endpapers.) Original green cloth, facsimile dust-jacket. Note: scarce. The first ‘Gay Guide’ to London and written by the author of ‘Limehouse Nights’, Thomas Burke. The work takes the form of a discreet and indirect conversation between two men in the Thélème Club where, by innuendo, they discuss the best public toilets for gaining ‘full satisfaction’. The endpaper maps provide visual assistance in locating the toilets.
Estimate: £200 – £300
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