The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech

by ALLEN, Irving Lewis

$20 · Offered by Between the Covers

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 307pp. Illustrations. Tiny stain on the edge of the spine, else fine in fine dust jacket with a slight corresponding stain, visible only on the inside of the jacket. Fascinating exploration of the variety of slang as it congealed..... More

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