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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence
by:
Francis Grose
3.92 avg rating β 555 ratings
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I Love it When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech
by:
Ralph Keyes
3.47 avg rating β 285 ratings
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How to Commit a Murder
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Danny Ahearn
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Smaller Slang Dictionary
by:
Eric Partridge
3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang
by:
Max DΓ©charnΓ©
3.89 avg rating β 141 ratings
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Cheapjack
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Philip Allingham
4.50 avg rating β 14 ratings
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The Pocket Dictionary of American Slang
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Harold Wentworth
4.17 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Vulgar Tongues
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Max DΓ©charnΓ©
3.11 avg rating β 140 ratings
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Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
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Gaston Dorren
3.92 avg rating β 4,569 ratings
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Tales of the Ex-Tanks: A Book of Hard-Luck Stories
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Clarence Louis Cullen
4.75 avg rating β 8 ratings
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What They Didn't Teach You in Spanish Class: Slang Phrases for the Cafe, Club, Bar, Bedroom, Ball Game and More
by:
Juan Caballero
3.90 avg rating β 21 ratings
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How to Speak Brit: The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases
by:
C.J. Moore
3.48 avg rating β 376 ratings
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Dan Burley's Jive
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Dan Burley
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Bullshit: A Lexicon
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Mark Peters
3.47 avg rating β 47 ratings
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Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of
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Jeff Foxworthy
3.68 avg rating β 316 ratings
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Dust, Dope and Sawdust: The Life Story of Paul Carew
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Paul Carew
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Lexicon of Comicana
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Mort Walker
4.16 avg rating β 58 ratings
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The Secret History of Carnival Talk
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Sarah Kate Istra Winter
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases
by:
Howard Rheingold
3.86 avg rating β 317 ratings
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Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo
by:
Hyman E. Goldin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
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Barbara Cassin
4.54 avg rating β 70 ratings
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Sea Sodoms: A Sinical [Sic] Survey of Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Curacao, Venezuela, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Cuba
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G.L. Morrill
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
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John McWhorter
3.95 avg rating β 4,127 ratings
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The Elizabethan Underworld: A Collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads: Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727: Classics from the Underworld, Volume One
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A.V. Judges
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Xenia: A Hoard of Lost Words, Eighteenth-Century Street Lingo, and a Few Completely Confabulated Terms Collected and Exemplified
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Coleman Barks
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Boy Gangs of Richmond in the Dear Old Days: A Page of the City's Lesser History
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Charles M. Wallace
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing
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Katherine Dunn
3.82 avg rating β 492 ratings
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The Hop-Heads: Personal Experiences Among the Users of "Dope" in the San Francisco Underworld
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Fred V. Williams
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The F-Word
by:
Jesse Sheidlower
3.68 avg rating β 389 ratings
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Confessions of a Confidence Man: A Handbook for Suckers
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Edward H. Smith
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
by:
Ella Frances Sanders
4.23 avg rating β 3,986 ratings
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Down Home Gynecology
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Marvin Jaffee
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-Regulation
by:
Adam Winsler
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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A Strappado for the Diuell
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Richard Brathwaite
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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You Can't Win: The Autobiography of Jack Black
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Jack Black
4.33 avg rating β 4,717 ratings
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Vol. 1: 1567-1785
by:
Julie Coleman
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Taking it Easy
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Spider
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Hiptionary: A Hipster's View of the World Scene
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Elliot Horne
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Hiparama of the Classics
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Lord Richard Buckley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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A Dictionary of the Teenage Revolution and Its Aftermath
by:
Kenneth Hudson
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Shanghaied out of 'Frisco in the 'Nineties
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Hiram P. Bailey
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Black slang: A dictionary of Afro-American talk
by:
Clarence Major
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Vol. 2: 1785-1858
by:
Julie Coleman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Narcotics: Lingo and Lore
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J. E. Schmidt
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Ghetto Messenger: Sixty Tales Of A Unique Seventy Year Old Telegraph Messenger "Boy"
by:
Abraham Burstein
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Neurotica
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Jay Irving Landesman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Pavement My Pillow
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Louis E. Gillain
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Little Willie
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Dorothy Rickard
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Horn Exalted or, Roome for Cuckolds; Being a Treatise Concerning the Reason and Original of the Word Cuckold, and Why Such Are Said to Wear Horns
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Unknown
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Hey There, Sucker!
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Jack Dadswell
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Bingo Lingo
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Liz Cammarata
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Tommy Cornstalk: Being some account of the less notable features of the South African war from the point of view of the Australian ranks
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John Henry Macartney Abbott
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Broadway Racketeers
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John O'Connor
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum
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Wallace Irwin
4.08 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Seventy Years a Showman
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George Sanger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 21 ratings
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"Guilty wretch that I am": Echoes of Australian bushrangers
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Richard Burgess
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Four White Horses and a Brass Band
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Violet McNeal
3.91 avg rating β 54 ratings
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The Hobo's Hornbook: A Repertory for a Gutter Jongleur
by:
George Milburn
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Pass the Aspirin
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Chalmers Lowell Pancoast
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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"Hey Rube"
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Bert J. Chipman
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Turnpike Sailor: or, Rhymes on the Road; Recited by Buccaneers, Privateers, Slavers, and Sailors of All Degree
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William Clark Russell
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Motormaniacs
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Lloyd Osbourne
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting; A Complete Account for Sportsmen and Other Persons
by:
Robert Baden-Powell
3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Metamorphosis of Ajax: A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, with An Anatomie of the Metamorpho-sed Ajax.
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John Harington
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Slang Fables From Afar
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Al Kleberg
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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American tramp and underworld slang: Words and phrases used by hoboes, tramps, migratory workers and those on the fringes of society
by:
Godfrey Irwin
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
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Hector McDonnell
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Libellous Lyrics On Superior People
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G.W.L. Day
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Hashish: Smuggling Under Sail in the Red Sea
by:
Henry de Monfreid
4.06 avg rating β 214 ratings
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The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945 to 1959
by:
William S. Burroughs
4.18 avg rating β 519 ratings
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Peter Ploddy, and Other Oddities
by:
Joseph Clay Neal
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Wipers Times: Including for the First Time in One Volume a Facsimile Reproduction of the Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Magazines
by:
Frederick John Roberts
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary
by:
Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Slave Catching In The Indian Ocean: A Record Of Naval Experiences
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Philip Howard Colomb
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
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Diamond Spike
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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A Selection of Dialect Poems: Written on the Rail, and Dedicated to the "Army of the Gripsack"
by:
Harry J. Richardson
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Tramping With Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life
by:
Josiah Flynt
4.06 avg rating β 17 ratings
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The Milk and Honey Route: A Handbook for Hobos
by:
Dean Stiff
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest
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Stewart Hall Holbrook
4.06 avg rating β 94 ratings
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Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed
by:
Gelett Burgess
4.67 avg rating β 12 ratings
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The Newgate Garland Or, Flowers of Hemp; Being a choice Noosegay gathered in the pleasant fields of Victorian canting and flash literature. To which is added an authentic Autobiography of a Thief, written in thieves' and prison slang
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W.L. Hanchant
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Shantymen and Shantyboys: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
by:
William M. Doerflinger
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Ribbin', jivin', and playin' the dozens: The unrecognized dilemma of inner-city schools
by:
Herbert L. Foster
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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No. 747, Being the Autobiography of a Gipsy
by:
F. W. Carew
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Beggars of Life
by:
Jim Tully
3.95 avg rating β 351 ratings
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New Zealand Slang: A Dictionary of Colloquialisms
by:
Sidney J. Baker
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Calked Boots and Cant Hooks: One Man's Story of Logging the North
by:
George Corrigan
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Dread, Beat and Blood
by:
Linton Kwesi Johnson
4.16 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Understanding Jamaican Patois: An Introduction to Afro-Jamaican Grammar
by:
L Emilie Adams
4.24 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Of Minnie the Moocher & Me
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Cab Calloway
4.23 avg rating β 39 ratings
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The Demon of the Orient, and His Satellite Fiends of the Joints: Our Opium Smokers as They Are in Tartar Hells and American Paradises
by:
Allen Samuel Williams
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Keys to Crookdom
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George C. Henderson
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Swindling Exposed: From The Diary Of William B. Moreau, King Of Fakirs. Methods Of The Crooks Explained. History Of The Worst Gang That Ever Infested This Country
by:
William B. Moreau
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Sailortown
by:
Stan Hugill
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Language of Rock 'n' Roll'
by:
Bob Young
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
by:
Bruce Jackson
4.37 avg rating β 30 ratings
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Youβre in the Racket Too
by:
James Curtis
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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A Bluey of Swaggies
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Edel Wignell
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Walking the beat; a New York policeman tells what it's like on his side of the law
by:
Gene Radano
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Nigerian Slangs: Parlons L'Anglais [English-French Dictionary]
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C.N.C. Asomugha
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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