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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3281)	7/27/1999 8:21:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (2) of 4711

>That's what used bookstores are for. A goodly number of the books I want to read or own are out of print.< I thought the list might appreciate knowing of an online consortium of used and antiquarian bookstores: www.abebooks.com. I searched there for Eric Partridge and discovered he had quite a career in slang dictionaries: in addition to the one Joan cited, there's also _A Dictionary of the Underground, British and American being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps_, _A DICTIONARY OF R.A.F. SLANG_, and several others.

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