DICTIONARY of the UNDERWORLD ~ ERIC PARTRIDGE Ltd Edition SIGNED ~ 1950 For Sale

A Dictionary Of The Underworld: British & American ~ Being The Vocabularies Of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars And Tramps, Convicts, The Commercial Underworld, The Drug Traffic, The White Slave Traffic, Spivs (Signed By Eric Partridge)
By Eric Partridge
London: Theodore Brun Limited, 1950. The 1950 Limited Deluxe Edition, which was issued simultaneously with the trade edition. 250 copies were issued in the Limited Deluxe Edition but this copy specifically is among the first 100 copies in the limitation (#24), which were the only ones Eric Partridge signed. AS-IS CONDITION TO BE CLEAR ! front and rear cover split along spine edge with tidy cloth tape re-inforcement inner gutter edge inside front and rear cover; stain at the bottom and for-edge top edge and edges of text last approx. third of text ; else AS-IS intact with \"the book belongs to editorial department of reference library of METHUEN & CO LTD 36 Essex street\"