The New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive

by Cab Calloway

$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York : Cab Calloway Inc., 1944. First edition thus; the third of Calloway's dictionaries, basically a third edition of his Cat-ologue. 16 pp. 2.75 x 4.4 Stapled wraps. Sticker from furniture store to front cover, else Near Fine. A WWII-era African American slang dictionary issued by the famous Cotton Club band leader, with an updated list of words and phrases. Rare, only three institutional copies located in a

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