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2017x-1138155721Taylor & Francis 2017. Hardcover. New. 2nd new edition. 412 pages. 9.69x7.44x1.22 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
2002Q-0415291895Routledge 2002-11-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Routledge paperback
2002474248Routledge. Very Good. 2002. Eighth Edition. Soft Cover. Q38 . Routledge paperback
2013DADAX1584774444Lawbook Exchange Ltd 2013-07-08. hardcover. New. 7.25x2.25x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lawbook Exchange, Ltd hardcover
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. $85. 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
2007Cambridge-9780521358088Cambridge University Press 2007. PAPERBACK. New. Cambridge University Press paperback
2007Cambridge-9780521358088Cambridge University Press 2007. PAPERBACK. New. Cambridge University Press paperback
2007DADAX0521358086Cambridge University Press 2007-04-23. Reissue. paperback. New. 6.69x0.90x9.61. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press paperback
20051-013022460XPrentice Hall 2005. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 336 pages. 10.50x8.50x0.50 inches. Prentice Hall paperback
