Search Results: slang to day and yesterday with a by eric partridge

New York: Bonanza Books, 1955. Reprint. . Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. moderate shelfwear and tiny tears//toning to the jacket, No ownership marks. ix, 476 p. 26 cm.

NY: Bonanza Books Undated. Faint age toning down the gutters at the front and back covers, else textblock is clean and tight. A couple of moisture spots to top and fore-edge pages. Bumped head and foot of spine and slightly to the corners. Price-clipped dust jacket, larger chips to the head and foot of the spine, chips to the corners, age soiled spine and covers, chip at the bottom edge on the back cover. 476pp., including index.. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair (in mylar). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

NY: Bonanza. 3rd. vg. Hardcover. 9.5" tall; 476pp including index; a bit of biopredation top of cover; dust jackeet is discolored, soiled, price-clipped .

New York: Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1960s]. Hardcover. Stated third edition, revised and brought up to date. Per the jacket flap: "Here is the first serious study of English slang, the first adequate history of English and American slang, and by far the most thorough inquiry into basic principles. . ." With chapters on oddities, colonial slang, and English, Australian and American vocabularies. With three indexes. No date appears in book, possibly published c.1960s. --- In full brownish-grey cloth-covered boards with spine titling in brown. Volume wrapped in simple typographic dust jacket. --- A clean, sound, unmarked copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with a few small tears and slight darkening to spine; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; ix, [3], 476 pages .

New York: Bonanza Books (No Date) 476 pp. Original gray cloth covers; spine and edges a bit sunned. Light fraying to spine ends. Tiny, faint dampstain at top edge of text block. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and several closed tears to edges. Spine and edges darkened. Few small, faint dampstains to front panel. Contents nice.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1950. History of English slang; specialized slang including cockney, tradesmen, jounalists, publishers, lawyers, schools, art, sport, circus, sailors & soldiers; oddities; American slang; English, Australian & American vocabularies. Stated third edition, revised. Hardcover, full burgundy cloth, gilt titling. General wear, corners bumped, spine lightly faded with a couple of 'creases'; ink name on free endsheet. Text clean; ix, blank, 476 pages; index, glossaries.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

Bonanza Books. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 3rd Revised edition. (Reference, Dictionary, Slang dictionary) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul LTD, 1960 Routledge and Kegan Paul LTD, London, UK. 1960. Hardcover. Stated 3rd Edition (Revised) 2nd Time Printed in 1960. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: light bumping to head and tail; light edgewear; light wear of gilt lettering. No DJ. Maroon boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine. 476 pp 4to. Slang is easy to use but very hard to write about as it is a peculiar kind of vagabond language, always hanging on the outskirts of legitimate speech. Slang is the quintessence of colloquial speech and is related more to convenience than to scientific laws, grammatical rules, and philosophical ideals. A clean very presentable copy.

New York: Bonanza Books. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. N.d., [ca. 1950s]. Orig. grey cloth. ix, 476 pp. Spine cocked, stained at foot. Light damp staining to edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, spine is darkened, damp stained and scuffed with pen ink, perforation to rear joint, chipped to spine ends and foot of front cover. 0.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Third edition reprint hardback, revised and brought up to date 1960, with no jacket. In overall very good condition, red cloth boards, with gilt titles to spine, are a little faded to spine and edges, corners and spine head rubbed and slightly worn. Binding tight and square, no annotations or inscriptions, prelims and page-ends a touch tanned but text clean and clear throughout. A very handsome book.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Large 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 476; maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Millersville State College Library with usual markings, edges a bit rubbed, else very good.

Rouledge and Kegan Paul Limited , 1954. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint, 4th edition 1954. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 476 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1933. Large 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 476; original red cloth (soiling), spine lettered in gilt; light wear to extremities, spine a bit faded; minor damage to front pastedown, else interior very good.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1933. First edition, large 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 476; original red cloth, spine faded, light wear to extremities, else very good. With the bookplate of Partridge's friend, collaborator and author, John Brophy, and with a letter laid in from Brophy to 'Dear Preston, Here's Partridge's book on slang, which I understandb Gueden wants to borrow. I hope you'll be able [to] get my articles in ? reviewing in the paper on Sunday..."

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1933. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Red cloth, gilt. Dust jacket torn, chipped, sunned, and dampstained. Bookplate inside front cover, former owner's name on front free endpaper, o/w clean. First edition. In English, except when it's quoting a French source..

Routledge, 2015. Hardcover. New. 3rd revised rei edition. 476 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.25 inches.