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DICTIONNAIRE ARGOT-FRANCAIS & FRANCAIS-ARGOT
by Delesalle, Georges
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Paris, France: Paul Ollendorff, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Leather_bound. Very Good Minus. Essentially, a Slang-French/French-Slang Dictionary. Preface by Jean Rechepin. Half-bound calf over lovely marbled boards, with non-pareil-style marbling to endpapers. Book measures approximately 9" x 5.75". Rubbing and crazing to leather, particularly to joings and spine with a .25" tear at top of spine, which has five raised bands, and gilt lettering of author, title, and (at bottom), date. Corners rubbed through to board, age tanning to pages, and fore-edge and tail untrimmed. Very solidly bound. Braunholtz's Books of Reference for Students and Teachers of French: A Critical Survey (p. 58, MacMillan & Bowes, 1901)) called Delesalle's slang dictionary the best of those available, but even then, not satisfactory. Our guess is just as slang is today, the language of the back alleys of the seldom-safely-sojourned Parisian arrondissement was so dynamic and fluid, by the time someone completed a glossary, many words had already been replaced. Perhaps by definition the only reliable and up-to-date dictionary would be the verbal, culturally-borne variety, not a bound-and-sewn construct of leather, cloth, and ink-upon-paper.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72399
- Title
- DICTIONNAIRE ARGOT-FRANCAIS & FRANCAIS-ARGOT
- Author
- Delesalle, Georges
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paul Ollendorff
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Slang Dictionary, French Slang Dictionary, 19th Century French street glossary
- Bookseller catalogs
- reference;
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Marbled boards
- ...
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