Language of the underworld. Collected and edited

by Allan W. Futrell & Charles B. Wordell. Foreword by Stuart Berg Flexner by David W. Maurer

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

University Press of Kentucky, 1981 . First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 417; generally a fine copy in the dust jacket. Twenty essays by a pioneering American linguist providing glimpses into the lives of marginal groups: drug addicts, gamblers, prostitutes, moonshiners, scam artists, forgers, etc. Item #31009

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