Set Reminder2023-10-28 12:00:002023-10-28 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Ricky Jay Collection Part II https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-ricky-jay-collection-part-ii-21921 Unusual relics were the hallmark of Ricky Jay's storied collection. This second auction from his archives features an astonishing array of the fantastic, the funny, and the flabbergasting.
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[SLANG] [KENT, George?] The Modern Flash Dictionary. London: W. Ward?s Bachelor?s Repository of Arts, ca. 1830. Publisher?s blue pictorial wraps bearing an image of ?Joe Downy? reciting ?flash lingo? to a crowd, retained in smooth sprinkled calf ruled in gilt with gilt-tooled spine and gilt-lettered Morocco title label, with gilt turn-ins. Marbled endsheets, ends stained red. Engraved bookplate. Small 8vo. Boards rubbed, minor spotting internally; very good or better. A compilation based on earlier works of sporting slang, criminal cant, and ?flash phrases now in vogue.? This work includes sixty categories of ?prime coves? (top-class rogues) including criminals of nearly every description.