A Dictionary Of The Underworld British American Being The Vocabularies Of Crooks Criminals

by Eric Partridge

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1949 i.e. 1950 . First edition, 4to, pp. xv, 1 , 804; text in double column; original blue cloth, dust jacket a little chipped and with a few short tears; front hinge cracked; very good. Owing to production delays this book was not published until 1950 - tipped in note on p. v . This copy with a note on the front free endpaper pasted in, with a presentation from Partridge reading: Dear Alan, You wouldn'tknow

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