Argot and Slang: A New French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris

Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1887-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. [From the library of noted Richard A. Macksey.] Bound in 3/4 red leather over red boards. Gilt lettering. Marbled end pages. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Leather rubbed with loss. Small stain to front board. Light spotting. lxxxiv, 495 p., 23 cm. <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.