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How to Commit a Murder
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Cheapjack
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Tales of the Ex-Tanks: A Book of Hard-Luck Stories
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Dan Burley's Jive
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Dust, Dope and Sawdust: The Life Story of Paul Carew
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The Secret History of Carnival Talk
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Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo
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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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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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The Boy Gangs of Richmond in the Dear Old Days: A Page of the City's Lesser History
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The Hop-Heads: Personal Experiences Among the Users of "Dope" in the San Francisco Underworld
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Confessions of a Confidence Man: A Handbook for Suckers
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Down Home Gynecology
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A Strappado for the Diuell
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You Can't Win: The Autobiography of Jack Black
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Vol. 1: 1567-1785
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Taking it Easy
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The Hiptionary: A Hipster's View of the World Scene
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Hiparama of the Classics
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A Dictionary of the Teenage Revolution and Its Aftermath
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Shanghaied out of 'Frisco in the 'Nineties
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Black slang: A dictionary of Afro-American talk
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Vol. 2: 1785-1858
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Narcotics: Lingo and Lore
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The Ghetto Messenger: Sixty Tales Of A Unique Seventy Year Old Telegraph Messenger "Boy"
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Neurotica
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The Pavement My Pillow
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Little Willie
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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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Hey There, Sucker!
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Bingo Lingo
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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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Broadway Racketeers
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The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum
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Seventy Years a Showman
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"Guilty wretch that I am": Echoes of Australian bushrangers
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Four White Horses and a Brass Band
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The Hobo's Hornbook: A Repertory for a Gutter Jongleur
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"Hey Rube"
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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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The Motormaniacs
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Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting; A Complete Account for Sportsmen and Other Persons
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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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Slang Fables From Afar
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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
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The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
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Libellous Lyrics On Superior People
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Hashish: Smuggling Under Sail in the Red Sea
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The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945 to 1959
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Peter Ploddy, and Other Oddities
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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
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Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary
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Slave Catching In The Indian Ocean: A Record Of Naval Experiences
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Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer
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A Selection of Dialect Poems: Written on the Rail, and Dedicated to the "Army of the Gripsack"
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Tramping With Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life
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The Milk and Honey Route: A Handbook for Hobos
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Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest
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Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed
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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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Shantymen and Shantyboys: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
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Ribbin', jivin', and playin' the dozens: The unrecognized dilemma of inner-city schools
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No. 747, Being the Autobiography of a Gipsy
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Beggars of Life
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New Zealand Slang: A Dictionary of Colloquialisms
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Calked Boots and Cant Hooks: One Man's Story of Logging the North
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Dread, Beat and Blood
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Understanding Jamaican Patois: An Introduction to Afro-Jamaican Grammar
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Of Minnie the Moocher & Me
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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
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Keys to Crookdom
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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
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Sailortown
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The Language of Rock 'n' Roll'
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
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You’re in the Racket Too
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A Bluey of Swaggies
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Walking the beat; a New York policeman tells what it's like on his side of the law
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Nigerian Slangs: Parlons L'Anglais [English-French Dictionary]
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Ballads And Songs Of The Shanty Boy
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The Dictionary of Nautical, University, Gypsy and Other Vulgar Tongues: A Guide to Language on the 18th and 19th Century Streets of London
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Immortalia:An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel
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The Spider and the Fly: Or, Tricks, Traps, and Pitfalls of City Life, by One Who Knows
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Some Day Been Dey (RLE Folklore): West African Pidgin Folktales
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Sneak-Thief on the Road
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The Language of the Teenage Revolution
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CB Slanguage Illustrated
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The policeman's bible: Or, The art of taking a bribe
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Language of the Underworld
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The Autobiography Of A Liverpool Slummy
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The goldfields journal of William Diaper [i.e. Diapea] (alias "Cannibal Jack") 1851-1853
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The Whistle Punk of Camp 15
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Ups and Downs of a Crook's Life; by an Ex-Convict
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Criminalese: Slang Talk of the Criminal
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Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern
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Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show
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Classic American Graffiti: Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America (Maledicta Press Publications 6)
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Stand On Me
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Fer Shurr! How To Be A Valley Girl-Totally!
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