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197241817London: Book Club Associates 1972. New edition 8vo pp. 392; text printed in double columns; original boards in tan dust jacket a bit soiled minor jacket edge wear else very good. <br/><br/> Book Club Associates hardcover books
196352408London: Hamish Hamilton 1963. Fifth impression small 8vo pp. 128; fine dust jacket spine toned small pen mark on jacket front. This copy inscribed by Partridge to John W. Clark "The only adverse criticism ever leveled against this little book is that it isn't for young people only." He has also made a small correction to a typo on page 16 and scribbed through the price on the flap of the jacket. <br/><br/> Hamish Hamilton unknown books
194852407London: Fredrick Muller Ltd 1948. First edition small slim 8vo pp. ix 1 176; original black cloth shadow on front free endpaper very good in dust jacket with spotting on verso and small loss of a square inch out of one corner of the upper panel. Inscribed by Partridge to his friend and collaborator "John W. Clark scholar and friend with compliments Eric Partridge 25 Dec. 1949." The book "covers not only the war of 1939-1945 but also more particularly the influence of wars and warfare on the vocabulary." jacket blurb. <br/><br/> Fredrick Muller Ltd hardcover books
194842162London: Fredrick Muller Ltd 1948. First edition small slim 8vo pp. ix 1 176; original cloth in blue printed price-clipped dust jacket; jacket edges a bit chipped back cover foxed spine edge damp stained; ffep considerably browned else interior very good. <br/><br/> Fredrick Muller Ltd hardcover books
193345070London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1933. First edition 8vo pp. x 230; original cloth in light blue decorative price-clipped dust jacket printed in two shades of blue; jacket spine toned edges a bit worn very shallow loss at spine head not affecting text; interior fine. One leaf of publisher's ads printed in red and black on recto and verso laid in. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co. Ltd hardcover books
196452412London: Hamish Hamilton 1964. 8vo pp. x 230; blue and white paper covers added protective plastic jacket; light wear to covers very good. Inscribed by Partridge to his friends Alan & Joan Steele. <br/><br/> Hamish Hamilton unknown books
195352439London: Hamish Hamilton 1953. First edition 8vo pp. x 230; original blue cloth tan and red dust jacket with a couple shallow chips at spine and small closed tear on lower panel. Inscribed May 8 1953 from Partridge to his friend Alan Steele on the front free endpaper and with the dust jacket price crossed out in his hand. <br/><br/> Hamish Hamilton hardcover books
195352330London: Hamish Hamilton 1953. First edition 8vo pp. x 230; original blue cloth spine sunned else very good. Inscribed by Partridge to Clark "John - my favorite and best collaborator! From Eric 8/v/1953." <br/><br/> Hamish Hamilton hardcover books
195152444New York: Philosophical Library 1951. First American edition 8vo pp. x 341 1; fine in a slightly worn jacket. Two World Wars new technologies and the global spread of English made for substantial changes in English in the 20th century. <br/><br/> Philosophical Library unknown books
195152443London: Andrew Dakers n.d. 1951. First edition 8vo pp. x 341 1; fine in a slightly chipped jacket. Two World Wars new technologies and the global spread of English made for substantial changes in English in the 20th century. <br/><br/> Andrew Dakers, n.d. unknown books
196442165New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1964. 12mo pp. xii 196; original stiff white wrappers a bit soiled edges toned 2 small stains to textblock fore-edge else very good. "A Dutton Paperback." <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton & Co paperback books
192741729London: The Scholartis Press 1927. 8vo pp. 250 1; original half red cloth over marbled boards red-lettered spine; top border of upper cover damp-stained boards scuffed extremities a bit worn; contemporary gift inscription on front pastedown else interior very good. <br/><br/> The Scholartis Press hardcover books
192741730London: The Scholartis Press 1927. 8vo pp. 250 1; original half red cloth over marbled boards red-lettered spine top edge green; edges and first and last few leaves quite foxed else fine. <br/><br/> The Scholartis Press hardcover books
1948004657London: Secker & Warburg 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 21.5 by 14 cm. xi 1 212 pp. A fun collection of that most ephemeral area of language. Most of the terms or their meaning at the time now obscure. Slight edge bump by upper front edge and light wear to DJ. DJ is NOT price clipped! Otherwise a near fine copy both the book itself and the DJ. <br /><br /> Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1928134341London: The Scholartis Press 1928. Octavo 256 pp. original brown cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. Limited to 600 copies of which this is one of 500 trade copies. Stories set before during and after the Great War. "A Case of Lunacy" concerns a writer who infiltrates an asylum. Some general dust soiling to cloth mostly on spine panel rear outer joint rubbed else a very good copy. #134341 The Scholartis Press unknown books
1930172542London: Eric Partridge Ltd 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Features T.F. Powys' story "Like Paradise" and George Baker's story "The Amazing Adoption." Also includes poems by Edmund Blunden Peggy Barwell and Nigel Morland. A near fine copy in boards. No dust jacket. Eric Partridge, Ltd unknown books
1930172543London: Eric Partridge Ltd 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Features H.E. Bates' story "Sheep" a satire by John Brophy and a story by E.V. De Fontmell. Also includes Eric Partridge's "The War Comes Into its Own. A near fine copy in boards. No dust jacket. Eric Partridge, Ltd unknown books
19809022195New York: MacMillan 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy quarter cloth and paper over boards spine stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to edges and extremities of dust jacket. Contributions from Anthony Burgess Ralph Elliott Winston Graham and Randolph Quirk. <br/><br/> MacMillan hardcover books
2013398052013. ISBN-13: 9781584774440; ISBN-10: 1584774444. Partridge Eric Compiler. A Dictionary of the Underworld British and American. Being the Vocabularies of Crooks Criminals Racketeers Beggars and Tramps Convicts the Commercial Underworld the Drug Traffic the White Slave Traffic Spivs. Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company 1950. xv 804 pp. Reprinted 2004 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774440. ISBN-10: 1584774444. Hardcover. New. $49.95 Reprint of the second edition. Thoroughly engrossing A Dictionary of the Underworld offers definitions for such obscure terms and phrases as "witch-hazel man" heroin addict "eason" to tell and "budge a beak" run away. "Once in about every generation a book is published which dominates its field. Such a book is Partridge's Dictionary of the Underworld which is not only the first extensive work on the underworld to appear in the twentieth century but also the largest in the English language. . It is truly a monumental work so monumental that scholars may well be disturbed by its aura of substantiality for it will undoubtedly be cited and quoted or years to come." --David W. Maurer American Speech Vol. 26 No. 1 February 1951 38. One of the great lexicographers of the twentieth century ERIC PARTRIDGE 1894-1979 had a keen interest in slang and unconventional English. He wrote over forty books on the English language and compiled the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English Shakespeare's Bawdy and A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. He also wrote novels under the pseudonym Corrie Denison. unknown books
1950Embry 75977Macmillan 1950. First U.S. edition. Faint wear still fine in near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear a one-half inch chip to lower rear panel and a one inch horizontal piece missing from upper rear panel. Macmillan, 1950. First U.S. edition. unknown books
195252267London: Andre Deutsch 1952. First edition 8vo pp. 140; spine very slightly discolored else a fine copy in the dust jacket enhanced by a presentation from Partridge to "Norman Davis - who may in this elementary book find a few things to amuse perhaps one or two to instruct. With kind regards Eric Partridge 6/12/1960." Also with the dust-jacket price scribbled out by Partridge and with his small ink corrections in the text on p. 7 14 and 140. Norman Davis 1913-1989 was a New Zealand-born professor of English language and literature at the University of Oxford. Compiled by Partridge under the pseudonym Vigilans "as he does not wish to become the victim of a man-hunt effected by a horde of enraged civil servants" jacket blurb. Issued in the publisher's Language Library series. <br/><br/> Andre Deutsch unknown books
195241831New York: British Book Centre 1952. First edition American issue 8vo pp. 140; original cloth in pale green price-clipped dust jacket a bit soiled chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text jacket spine and endpapers toned. Compiled by Partridge under the pseudonym Vigilans "as he does not wish to become the victim of a man-hunt effected by a horde of enraged civil servants" jacket blurb. Forms part of the Language Library. <br/><br/> British Book Centre hardcover books
195241816New York: British Book Centre 1952. First edition American issue 8vo pp. 140; original cloth in pale green price-clipped dust jacket a bit soiled chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text jacket spine and endpapers toned. Compiled by Partridge under the pseudonym Vigilans "as he does not wish to become the victim of a man-hunt effected by a horde of enraged civil servants" jacket blurb. Forms part of the Language Library. <br/><br/> British Book Centre hardcover books
1980Embry 188706Macmillan 1980. First edition first printing. Fine in near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket with a tiny tear to lower front panel in mylar cover. Macmillan, 1980. First edition, first printing. unknown books
196349673NY:: Macmillan. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. A later printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover books