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  • THE SELECTED WORKS OF ERIC PARTRIDGE
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    THE SELECTED WORKS OF ERIC PARTRIDGE
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical,...

    $23,000.00

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  • HOLY TERROR
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    HOLY TERROR
    ERIC S. CHRISTIANSON / CHRISTOPHER PARTRIDGE
    The authors of religious scriptures had little difficulty enhancing sacred narratives with the rhetoric of violence. The phenomenon continues in the habitual linkage of violence and religion in contemporary film, music and literature. 'Holy Terror' brings together scholars of religious studies, biblical studies, film studies and sociology to examine the social function of viole...

    $1,240.00

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  • A DICTIONARY OF THE UNDERWORLD
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    A DICTIONARY OF THE UNDERWORLD
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, wi...

    $2,100.00

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  • THE WORLD OF WORDS
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    THE WORLD OF WORDS
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particular. It is suitable for beginners and those who wish to learn about the basics of linguistics. ...

    $1,420.00

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  • A NEW TESTAMENT WORD BOOK
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    A NEW TESTAMENT WORD BOOK
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theological, but lexicographical and etymological. Each entry is introduced by illustrative quotations from the New Testament, and the book provides an insightful exploration of these phrases. ...

    $1,420.00

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  • SLANG
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    SLANG
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages. As well as looking at commonly used slang, there are sections that give the reader insight into more unusual areas such as Cockney slang, slang in journalism and slang in commerce, as well as slang used by sailors,...

    $1,420.00

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  • PRÉCIS WRITING
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    PRÉCIS WRITING
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at school, with the tools they needed to become successful précis-ers. The selection of literary pieces is more diverse than other preìcis books of the time and Partridge’s background as a schoolmaster, a lecturer and a publisher sets him up well to teach the subject. ...

    $1,420.00

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  • WORDS, WORDS WORDS!
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    WORDS, WORDS WORDS!
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially explores and discusses various words and phrases such as "bloody", euphemisms, the Devil’s nicknames, various versions of slang, and familiar terms of address. He does so with light-wo...

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  • COMIC ALPHABETS
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    COMIC ALPHABETS
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a way in which mankind has taken pleasure in playing with words and phrases. Indeed, approaches can vary significantly from the almost moronically humorous to the ingenious and genuinely witty and this book looks at the reasons how and w...

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  • A DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS
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    A DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abbreviations. The preface notes that newspaper readers, sailors, soldiers and airmen had to thrust themselves, like explorers, into these abbreviations in search of truth, or the execution of their martial duty and hence, a dictionary ...

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  • THE LURE OF THE DARK SIDE
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    THE LURE OF THE DARK SIDE
    CHRISTOPHER H. PARTRIDGE / ERIC S. CHRISTIANSON
    Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, music and literature. Their religious significance has only recently begun to be explored. 'The Lure of the Darkside' brings together the work of some of the most important and creative scholars in the field of Biblical and Religious Studies. The essays explore demonology in popular cul...

    $1,160.00

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  • ORIGINS
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    ORIGINS
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety of routes from originally common stock. As well as giving the answers to questions about the derivation of individual words, it is a fascinating book to browse through, and includes e...

    $1,860.00

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  • SHAKESPEARE'S BAWDY
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    SHAKESPEARE'S BAWDY
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all words and phrases used in a sexual or scatological sense, with full explanations and ...

    $520.00

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  • A DICTIONARY OF CATCH PHRASES
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    A DICTIONARY OF CATCH PHRASES
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases. ...

    $700.00

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  • A DICTIONARY OF CLICHES
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    A DICTIONARY OF CLICHES
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the clichés, venerability in every case. ...

    $860.00

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL SLANG
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    THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL SLANG
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. ...

    $1,160.00

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  • YOU HAVE A POINT THERE
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    YOU HAVE A POINT THERE
    ERIC PARTRIDGE
    This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art - a friend, not an enemy. ...

    $1,000.00

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  • SHORTER SLANG DICTIONARY
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    SHORTER SLANG DICTIONARY
    PAUL BEALE / ERIC PARTRIDGE
    From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the English-speaking world. It gives clear and concise definitions of each word, supplemented by examples of their use and information about whe...

    $1,120.00

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