Bloomsbury Dictionary Of Contemporary Slang.
£35.00
Publisher
Bloomsbury.
Place
London
Date
1991
Synopsis
(bloomsbury reference).
Item Description
8vo.9 x 6 inches. vii + [i] + 583 pp. in pictorial limp card wrapper,, with a little edge wear; otherwise a very good copy. Signed dedication by author to Ralph Steadman on title page. Decorated by publisher's series device on title page. First paperback edition of a work praised for drawing its examples from actual spoken language rather than on written and broadcast usage. Tony Thorne (b.1950) is a linguist and lexicographer, who was Director of the Language Centre at King's College London, 1991-2007 and later Visiting Consultant.
[Stock No. 30160]
