Slang To-Day and Yesterday: With a Short Historical Sketch; and Vocabularies of English, American, and Australian Slang
by PARTRIDGE, Eric
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1960s]. Hardcover. Stated third edition, revised and brought up to date. Per the jacket flap: "Here is the first serious study of English slang, the first adequate history of English and American slang, and by far the most thorough inquiry into basic principles. . ." With chapters on oddities, colonial slang, and English, Australian and American vocabularies. With three indexes. No date appears in book, possibly published c.1960s. --- In full brownish-grey cloth-covered boards with spine titling in brown. Volume wrapped in simple typographic dust jacket. --- A clean, sound, unmarked copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with a few small tears and slight darkening to spine; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; ix, [3], 476 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87988
- Title
- Slang To-Day and Yesterday: With a Short Historical Sketch; and Vocabularies of English, American, and Australian Slang
- Author
- PARTRIDGE, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1960s]
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