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19719631New York: Simon and Schuster 1971. First edition. 8vo 206pp. Illustrated section of symbols at the rear. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red in illustrated jacket. Former owner's name to ffep jacket price-clipped and with a few edge tears. Very good. <br /> <br /> A trove of 60s and 70s lingo of course mainly about sex and drugs. From Jefferson Airplane: d Sniff or snort a burning marijuana cigarette to freak trick n. pr Man who buys a prostitute and engages in unusual or deviant sexual activities eg. masturbating while holding an ice cube. . Simon and Schuster unknown
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. Secker & Warburg unknown
192613402Berlin: Malik-Verlag 1926. First edition. Softcover. g. 12mo. 80pp. Pictorial orange wrappers. Frontispiece. A documentary account based on authentic sources about the 1905 heroic uprising of Russian sailors on the Battleship Potemkin in the Black Sea during the Russo-Japanese War. Printed in 1926 by the famous leftist German publishing house Malik-Verlag the work is illustrated throughout with 15 photographic reproductions 10 of which are stills from Sergej M. Eisenstein's landmark 1925 silent film 'Panzerkreuzer Potemkin' describing the events of the Odessa mutiny. Cover designed by John Heartfield. Text in German. Includes a laid-in facsimile letter dated 26 May 1926 from the Prussian minister rejecting the request by the "Landstag" to ban the movie's distribution. Some ceasing staining and discoloration to wraps. Front cover detached along spine but present. Tiny chip on fore edge of front wrapper with one inch closed tear. Wrappers in fair to poor interior in very good condition. Malik-Verlag unknown