A dictionary of the underworld, British and American. Being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs
first edition
1950 · London
by Partridge, Eric
London: Theodore Brun, Ltd, 1950. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies (this is copy 114), small 4to, pp. xv, [1], 804; publisher's full black morocco gilt; near fine throughout. Issued simultaneously with the trade edition. The first 100 of this issue were signed by Partridge. (Inventory #: 52350)