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Paperback. Condition: New. Two members of a Gentleman's Club begin a conversation over a copy of the Sanitary World and Drainage Observer. The discussion turns to where `relief' may be obtained after drinking quantities of tea or lager when walking through the streets of London. We are told that the `places that have no attendants afford excellent rendezvous to people who wish to meet out of doors and yet escape the eye of the Busy.' (police).The book could be read at as an entertaining, straight forward guide to London's public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not.This title is one of the first on the Muswell Press LGBT+ list launching in Autumn 2019. Gough, Philip (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London published originally in 1937 by Routledge. Hailed as the first queer city guide, For Your Convenience was first published in 1937. Ostensibly a guide to where a gentleman may find relief in the metropolis after three cups of tea, for those in-the-know the information held between its pages offers a much more tantalizing prospect. Now faithfully reproduced for the first time in over eighty years, this fascinating book works as both a wry and playful slice of social history as well as a fascinating insight into the perils and pleasures of a most specific activity for men who loved men.The book could be read at as an entertaining, straight forward guide to Londons public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not. A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London, with map endpapers, published originally in 1937 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Gough, Philip (illustrator).…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Two members of a Gentleman's Club begin a conversation over a copy of the Sanitary World and Drainage Observer. The discussion turns to where `relief' may be obtained after drinking quantities of tea or lager when walking through the streets of London. We are told that the `places that have no attendants afford excellent rendezvous to people who wish to meet out of doors and yet escape the eye of the Busy.' (police). The book could be read at as an entertaining, straight forward guide to London's public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not. This title is one of the first on the Muswell Press LGBT+ list launching in Autumn 2019. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Gough, Philip (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 71 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.50 inches. In Stock. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

Condition: New. pp. 80. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

Condition: New. pp. 80. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

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Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. As New, not price clipped. Jacket Condition: 'As New, not price clipped' Condition: 'As New' Notes: Binding is square and solid. Pages are unmarked, clean and unbent. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

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Tapa Blanda. Condition: New. Primera novela policial del autor, cuyo verdadero nombre esEmilio Villalba Welsh. Periodista, escritor, autor teatral y de TV, ha sido, sin embargo el cine su género predilecto. Su obra Del arte de escribir para el cine y la televisión (1963) mereció la Faja de Honor de la SADE. 110 Páginas. 140 gr. Libro.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London published originally in 1937 by Routledge. Hailed as the first queer city guide, For Your Convenience was first published in 1937. Ostensibly a guide to where a gentleman may find relief in the metropolis after three cups of tea, for those in-the-know the information held between its pages offers a much more tantalizing prospect. Now faithfully reproduced for the first time in over eighty years, this fascinating book works as both a wry and playful slice of social history as well as a fascinating insight into the perils and pleasures of a most specific activity for men who loved men.The book could be read at as an entertaining, straight forward guide to Londons public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not. A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London, with map endpapers, published originally in 1937 Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Gough, Philip (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Undated - c1984. This is a staple-bound, 20 page long booklet. The cover is a bit worn but clean and neat. There is a previous owner's signature underneath the front cover but the pages internally are crisp and complete. An altogether charming booklet. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Condition: New. A facsimile guide to the Gents Loos of London, with map endpapers, published originally in 1937KlappentextrnrnOriginally published in 1937, a guide to the gents toilets of the London of the time. Two members of a gentleman s club discuss the. Gough, Philip (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. Two members of a Gentleman's Club begin a conversation over a copy of the Sanitary World and Drainage Observer. The discussion turns to where `relief' may be obtained after drinking quantities of tea or lager when walking through the streets of London. We are told that the `places that have no attendants afford excellent rendezvous to people who wish to meet out of doors and yet escape the eye of the Busy.' (police).The book could be read at as an entertaining, straight forward guide to London's public conveniences but yet to our more sceptical eye it is patently a guide to where men could meet like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was illegal. It remains a classic whether taken at face value or not.This title is one of the first on the Muswell Press LGBT+ list launching in Autumn 2019. Gough, Philip (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1838. Fair condition with no wrapper. Small format. Brown cloth spine and boards. 212 pages. Most of title label worn from spine. Boards worn with some pen marks to rear cover. Pencil annotation to rear endpaper. Front joint split but cover holding. Front endpapers soiled. Foxing throughout. Reasonable condition for age. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, Octavo, 3/4 red leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, marbled edge. Volume 1 only of 2, collection of stories of London life with 11 engraved plates and numerous woodcut vignettes throughout. Good, slightly warped and stained, light shelfwear. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE "FIRST QUEER GUIDE TO LONDON" Small 8vo., original sea green publisher's cloth, decorated with device in navy blue to upper board, and lettered typographically to spine; map endpapers printed in red showing central London, including Green Park, Oxford Street and Buckingham Palace along with 50 different public restrooms; together in the exceedingly rare unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (3s. 6d. net to front flap), printed in red; pp. [viii], 71, [i]; text printed in black throughout, with decorative title page replicating the upper panel of the dustwrapper, and three further vignettes, all by Philip Gough; a very good copy, with some darkening to edges of boards, and sunning to spine tips, which are also lightly pushed; internally for the most part clean, with some light offsetting to p. [i] and [lxxii]; light spotting to the prelims, and just beginning to crack at gutter facing p. 1, with a little webbing showing beneath, but holding firm; the wrapper, seldom found at all, is here present in good condition; completely unrepaired or restored, both panels and spine toned, with darkening particularly affecting the backstrip; rubbing, nicks and chips to all ends of folds and spine; a 2cm closed tear running in to the front panel; the front flap beginning to split at fold, but holding; and a couple of discrete internal tape repairs; rare thus. First edition, first printing of this pinnacle work. Thomas Burke was born in 1886, and published his first work, 'The Bellamy Diamonds', in 1901. It was not until 1916, however, when he published 'Limehouse Nights', that he began to receive greater critical acclaim. The book, a collection of short stories centring around Chinese immigrants, earned him the nickname 'the laureate of London's Chinatown'. Spurred on by the (somewhat controversial) fame, Burke continued to write on the subject of London and its environs, and increasingly began to incorporate the city's homosexual communities. In 1922 he published The London Spy, openly describing the existence of such relationships thus: "Only in the misty corners of the thickening streets…can [homosexual couples] attain the solitude they seek…For the young lover…the street is more private than the home." His pseudonym, Paul Pry, is likely taken from John Poole's 1825 farce where the protagonist, going by the same name, deliberately leaves his umbrella behind in a series of locations so that he might return to the scene and eavesdrop on conversations. The similarity between these two characters is, of course, obvious. Fifteen years after The London Spy, For your Convenience was published, somewhat bafflingly, by Routledge. The guide takes as its subject two members of the Thélème Club, Mr. Mumble and the 'doyen' of the club, who meet over a copy of the Sanitary World and Drainage Observer. Their discussion turns to the subject of where 'relief' may be found in London, supposedly after excessive consumption of tea or lager. They continue to discuss "places of that kind which have no attendants" and which "afford excellent rendezvous to people who wish to meet out of doors and yet escape the eye of the Busy [policemen]". The book ends when the pair retire to the bathroom together ("Lead on, my boy, lead on…"). The illustrations, including the highly important endpaper maps, have here been provided by the illustrator Philip Gough (1908-1956), and bear a striking resemblance to the work of Rex Whistler. Comical maps such as these were highly popular at the time, with this particular example featuring an elephant in Regent's Park, a mermaid in the Thames, and two men proudly brandishing toilet brushes in the corners of the margins. Unprecedented predominantly because of its early publication date, this fascinating and important guide outlines, through suggestion and innuendo, where men could meet other like-minded men in an era when homosexuality was still illegal, both in public and in private. Rare indeed in the dustwrapper. Philip Gough (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Burke, Thomas/ Pry, Paul (pen name), For Your Convenience: A Learned Dialogue, Instructive to All Londoners & London Visitors, Overheard in the Thélème Club and Taken Down Verbatimi, George Routledge and Sons (1937). First Edition. Teal blue boards with a titled spine and front board, and the iconic cartographic endpapers detailing the location of public bathrooms in the city. Very minor rubbing to corners and internally clean with very occasional spotting and a small split to the text block that does not affect integrity or text. Overall, an uncommonly clean copy of this scarce work, Very Good. The first gay guide to London, written in subtlety and innuendo, and in the form of a dialogue of two characters discussing where men might meet in the city, and discussing the various loos in the city where one might take relief after drinking, with the desirable Philip Gough designed endpapers showing all of the tourist sites of London, but every public bathroom that a man might meet another, or retire to. Obviously, this was published when homosexuality was still illegal, and so Routledge would presumably have been none the wiser when it was released, and given its scarcity, and that only twelve libraries have a copy (worldcat), many were possibly destroyed when the publisher realised.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An unusually concentrated pictorial record of the political establishment! Ten Hand Coloured PARISH CHARACTERS Satirical Prints Oblong folio, ten hand-coloured etched plates, plates numbered 1-4, [4, unnumbered], 6,7,8 10, and 11, plates dated June 12, 1829 (Plate 8 miss-dated June 12, 1826). Bound by J. Larkins in late nineteenth century half dark green morocco, ruled in gilt, over green marbled boards, russet morocco gilt lettering label on front cover, top edge gilt, green marbled endpapers, head & tail of spine expertly repaired, minimal rubbing to extremities of boards. (269*412 mm). The Characters include: 1. Mr George King - the Parish Overseer 2. Mr Primate - the Church Warden 3. Dusty Bob - the Parish Dustman 4. Master Fang the Parish Beadle. Attorney in General to the Parish 6. Master Dogberry the Parish Watchman 7. One of the Select Vestry 8. Leo Sacks - One Of The Charity Crab's 10. One of the Poor employed to mend the High Ways 11. Caleb Quotem the Parish Factotum Near Fine. Heath was a British artist who once described himself as a portrait & military painter. He was best known for his published engravings which included caricatures, political cartoons, and commentary on contemporary life. His early works often dealt with military scenes, including colour plates for The Martial Achievements, The Wars of Wellington, etc.[4], but from about 1820 on he focused on satire. Between 1827 and 1829, many of his works were published under the pseudonym Paul Pry (the name of an overly inquisitive stage character in a popular 1825 stage comedy by John Poole; also used the pseudonym Argus. He was described by Dr John Brown, biographer of John Leech as poor Heath, the ex-Captain of Dragoons, facile and profuse, unscrupulous and clever. See WIKI. PRY Paul [ie HEATH William] (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The first Gay guide to London, with the earliest printed map of the city's "cottages," i.e. public houses. It takes the form of a dialogue, a fairly ridiculous conversation between two gentlemen, ostensibly a guide to public loos throughout the town, as places where men might meet . "Though not out of doors." A hilarious innuendo ensues, and one can only imagine that the sedate publisher's (Routledge) were at the start totally innocent of the fact, it being strictly against the law and thoroughly subversive.Philip Gough's map shows the major tourist draws, but also slips in fifty "Cottage's," un-named but fairly obvious.There is a tiny amount of foxing to the maps, and at the bottom of the front map there is a short 1/2" split at the base of the centre line. There are very few even in Public Collections. Was this possibly because the title was withdrawn early by the publishers? 5" x 7 1/2".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. (Early English) Hodge's Visit to the Gymnasium. Dedicated to Grown-Up Babies of Both Sexes. By the Author of Paul Pry at a Party. London: E. Wallis, 42, Skinner Street, Snow Hill, circa 1823 [paper watermarked 1823]. 12mo - 7-1/16" x 4-1/4". String bound tan stiff paper wrappers with titles and decorative border printed in black to front wrapper, and publisher's advertisement and decorative border printed in black to back wrapper with rubbing and wear along spine and light scattered soiling for what is a lovely copy of the book. Gift inscription on front paste-down. [12] leaves printed one side only. The book contains humorous letterpress verses describing gymnastic exercises witnessed but not understood by a simple county dweller on his recent trip to the big city of London; illustrated with eleven excellent half page hand colored wood engravings, all of which are in fine condition. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. Only one copy located on OCLC/WorldCat (Princeton University Library). EXCEEDINGLY RARE.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st American edition. 8vo. Vol. I, iv, 200, vol. II, iv, 212 pages. One quarter brown cloth over paper covered boards. Rubbing to board extremities, corners bumped and rubbed, sunning to spines, blemishes to boards, interiors considerably foxed. Good copies. …

blank wrappers. 18x12cm, 32 pp., Series: Vor Samtid hjemme og ude, 4. Contemporary blank wrappers. Some wear. Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. With numerious engravings; 1/2 black leather & deep purple moire cloth over boards, gilt spine title, over original yellow wraps with black title & vignette on each cover, A very good copy with some toning to textblock, & 2 small bookplates inside front board; 96 pages. Size: 4.5"x5.75".…