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Lot 47
Finerty, James J. ?Criminalese.? Slang Talk of the Criminal [cover title].
Estimate: $200 - $300
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Finerty, James J. ?Criminalese.? Slang Talk of the Criminal [cover title]. N.p., (1926). Original printed wraps. 72pp. 16mo. Covers creased, a few spots with underlining, otherwise good. Scarce pocket dictionary sold as a guide to police offers and attorneys to decipher criminal slang. According to text on the back cover, the work is an expanded and updated version of a ?little book? first published in newspaper form in Muncie, Ind. in 1896. This is also the first work in which the expression ?in the doghouse? was printed.
