The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary, Revised 1939 Edition

by Cab Calloway

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

No Place : No Publisher , 1939. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as the first dictionary published by a Black person, but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of African American slang of the Jazz age. Some of the words and phrases spread like gangbusters to mainstream America: chick,

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