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1995réf. 23209Penobscot Press 1995. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1995 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its dark-red cloth with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Octavo a number of vintage photos complementing Craig Partridge's text. Penobscot Press unknown books
1950réf. 13588London: Theodore Brun Limited 1950. Full leather. Very Good. The 1950 Limited Deluxe Edition which was issued simultaneously with the trade edition. 250 copies were issued in the Limited Deluxe Edition but this copy specifically is among the first 100 copies in the limitation #21 which were the only ones Eric Partridege signed. Bound in a full dark-leather as well and includes bright gilt-design and lettering along the front panel and spine respectively. A bit of light scuffing to the panels and light wear along the spine ends. Still though solidly VG to VG and very presentable. Thick octavo 804 pgs. In a long wonderful career of offering up linguistic and lexical oddities this remains one of Eric Partridge's most beloved works. Theodore Brun Limited unknown books
1970réf. 52711New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1970. First printing. Very good in very good plus jacket. First US edition of this collection of "five magnificent narratives" by the influential Cuban writer. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original cornflower blue cloth blind-stamping to front and rear boards gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped $4.95 color pictorial jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. Machine-deckle fore-edge and bottom-edge. Yellow topstain. 10 182. Jacket with light edgewear couple tiny closed tears at bottom edge. Book with some rubbing and marginal toning to boards touch of foxing to endpapers front board slightly bowed. Interior fresh tight. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1959réf. 623754New York: The Macmillan Company 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition revised. Small quarto. xix 970pp. Owner name on front fly bottom edge a bit rubbed with a tiny pinhole rubbed through at the spine base still near fine in a moderately toned and soiled near very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears and shallow loss at the crown. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1961réf. 615809New York: Bonanza Books 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprinted with new addenda. Quart. 817pp. Fine in lightly rubbed very near fine dust jacket. Bonanza Books hardcover books
1963réf. 598417London: Andre Deutsch 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First British edition. 119pp. Slightly bumped corner else fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny tears rubbing and some toning. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1985réf. vita9800DeLeon Springs Florida: E. O. Painter Printing Company 1985. Octavo green cloth hardcover gilt letters xviii 149 pp. Fine in a Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Years of research came to fruition in this book a genealogy-history with biographical sketches for the first time of Nathaniel Partridge and his descendants. The odyssey begins in the early seventeenth century with the original progenitor emigrating from England to the prosperous plantation-type English colony of Barbados West Indies. The adventure story continued. By the eighteenth century his descendant sails 1500 miles from Barbados to Charles Town S.C. As Provost Marshal of the Admiralty for the Province of South Carolina Nathaniel Partridge in a series of encounters meets the infamous Stede Bonnet “gentleman pirate” of coastal America. John Nathaniel Partridge the early nineteenth century decendant pioneers in territorial Florida and as a delegate signs Florida’s first Constitution in 1839. His son Henry Edward Partridge an ordained minister served sixty-five years in the itenineracy of the Florida Conference of the Methodist Church. Excerpts from his 1867-1895 Diary relate his ministry mirror a typical life-style of that era and describe his travels. “Another Family With English Roots” a short chapter includes reserach of the William Strangward Family of Nassington “Northamps” Northamptonshire England and their American descendants. E. O. Painter Printing Company, (1985). hardcover books
1979réf. 546981Garden City New York: Rolling Stone Press / Dolping Books / Doubleday & Company Inc 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 191pp. Printed wrappers with moderate rubbing and wear lower wrap with a light vertical crease and a bit of light staining very good. Rolling Stone Press / Dolping Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1900réf. 537402South Africa 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong octavo 9 ½" x 7 ½". Olive green cloth boards. Contains two large format studio prints and 82 glossy gelatin silver prints laid into double-sided paper sleeves with cut-out rectangular frames. Neatly captioned throughout in ink on the paper sleeves. Owner's name: "J.E.C. Partridge" in ink on front cover. Boards are a little darkened and rubbed a few prints are faded very good. A notable album of images compiled by Lieutenant J.E.C. "Birdie" Partridge an officer in the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers and founder of the British Army Rugby Union ARU in 1906. The album documents the activities of Partridge's militia unit throughout South Africa during the Boer War. The unit is identified as the "46th R.E.". Included are images of the militia and several R.E. officers on the march and performing various duties and at leisure at various camps. Also included are images of Boer farms and families and Boer prisoners at Cape Town. Partridge was promoted to lieutenant in March 1901 and he represented South African rugby teams during the Boer war when he was serving there. After the war he became a prominent international rugby union player and founded the Army Rugby Union. The album likely includes more than one image of Partridge in particular in one print of an "X-mas dinner 1901". A well-preserved historically important collection of images. hardcover books
1995réf. 101514New Haven: Yale University Press 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Fine. Yale University Press hardcover books
1961réf. 627879New York: Bonanza Books 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprinted with new addenda. Quart. 817pp. Offsetting on endpapers dampstain on page edges very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with creases a chip affecting a bit of text and a couple interior tape repairs. Bonanza Books hardcover books
1959réf. 628876New York: The Macmillan Company 1959. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Second edition revised. Small quarto. xix 970pp. Water stain on the topedge affecting most of the page ends and light rubbing to the lower spine good or better in price-clipped very good dust jacket with light toning and edgewear. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1943réf. 57827London: Faber and Faber 1943. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 104pp index. Very good hardback in a tanned jacket that has some minor loss at the head of the spine. Faber and Faber hardcover books
1985réf. 21824Boston: Little Brown 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First American edition. 368pp index. Very good hardback in a very good jacket that has a small chip and a couple of closed tears to the front panel. Little Brown hardcover books
1954réf. 59252London: Faber & Faber 1954. Second impression 12mo pp. 107 1; text illustrations; blue publisher's cloth; corners bumped a little cocked very good. Inscribed by Partridge to "Sir Michael Ralcon with the author's admiration and compliments. Faber & Faber unknown books
1931réf. 59971London: Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scholartis Press 1931. First edition 8vo pp. vii 1 383; original red cloth; corners bumped spine sunned with a small stain joints starting bookplate of James Mead Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on upper pastedown very good. Inscribed by Partridge to sometimes collaborator and good friend Professor John W. Clark of the University of Minnesota "who will deplore the method but perhaps enjoy the contents." The first of Eric Partridge's slang dictionaries. The first through third editions of this popular volume were each limited to 1000 copies. This copy has a cracked front hinge apparently due to Partridge's mishandling of the book. In the gutter he has written "Apologies" with an arrow indicating the crack. Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scholartis Press unknown books
1947réf. 58970London 1947. Each printed on stiff card and folded to make 4 pages except as noted all 8vo all fine except as noted all with prose essays by Partridge on a variety of subjects many pertaining to some aspect of words or language. Laurie Atkinson Esq. whose name appears with some frequency below was an amateur lexicographer a reader and contributor to Eric Partridge and his works for many years. These cards started appearing in 1927 and were issued annually until 1976 with a couple of interruptions notably during the years of World War II. Partridge died in 1979. 1947 / 1948: Spivs and Phoneys. 1949 / 1950: We are the People inscribed "To all there Eric." 1950 / 1951: Westward to the Fortunate Isles; pp. 8; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1951 / 1952: The Real McCoy and the Real Mackay; pp. 8; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1952 / 1953: Imagination and Good Sense in Etymology; with a 4" x 6" prospectus laid for Partridge's You Have Point There addressed to Laurie Atkinson; also with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1953 / 1954: The Etymology of Etymology; with a 4" x 6" prospectus laid for Partridge's Concise Usage and Abusage addressed to Laurie Atkinson; also with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson; slight glue residue at the top from envelope. 1954 / 1955: Babes Babblers Barbarians; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1955 / 1956: Elephantine; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1957 / 1958: Aspects of Emptiness; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson Esq. together with a typed carbon reply from him to Partridge. 1958 / 1959: . Nor any Drop to Drink; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1959 / 1960: A Square Digs Beatnick; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1960 / 1961: Annus Laud Mirabilis; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson Esq. 1961 / 1962: Merely Another Year; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson Esq. 1962 / 1963: A Few Things Done; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson moderate glue residue at the top from envelope. 1963 / 1964: An Optical Illusion; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson together with a one-and-a-half page draft A.L.s to Partridge regarding an ill-fated trip to New York. 1964 / 1965: The Women Have It: Some Lawn Tennis Players I have Watched; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson together with a one-and-a-half-page draft A.L.s to Partridge regarding tennis. 1968 / 1969 "How Did You Come to Write Your Dictionary of Slang Or Indeed Your Usage and Abusage" With the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson together with a one-page A.L.s to Partridge from Atkinson regarding catch-phrases. 1969 / 1970 Below the Surface; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson Esq. 1970 / 1971: In Memoriam Julian Franklyn; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1971 / 1972: What's in a Catch-Phrase; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson · 1973 / 1974: Report on a Work in Progress i.e. A Dictionary of Catch Phrases; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. 1974 / 1975: Still Progressing: A Further Report on Catch Phrases; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson; with a draft 1-p. A.L.s. from Atkinson to Partridge expressing thanks and offering memories. 1975 / 1976 No Man is an Island; inscribed "Dear Laurie all good wishes et multos ad Annos Eric"; together with a 1-p. typed letter to Partridge from Atkinson regarding "hundreds of new definitions for DSUE." 1976 / 1977: Four Linguistic Brevities; inscribed "Dear Laurie Nos. I - II are ; IV less stolid. Regards! Eric"; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge's hand to Laurie Atkinson. unknown books
1952réf. 50703London: Hamish Hamilton 1952. First edition small 8vo pp. 14 146; red cloth boards silver title on spine; fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed to the dedicatee by Partridge: "To John W. Clark with the wish that it was worthy of him Eric Partridge 30 May 1952." Clark professor at the University of Minnesota was an old friend of Partridge and a sometimes collaborator. One small correction to the text in Partridge's hand. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1955réf. 52466London: Faber & Faber 1955. Third impression originally published in 1953; 12mo pp. 107 1; blue cloth gilt in pictorial dust jacket; light spotting to edges else near fine. Inscribed by Partridge to Anthony Clarkson "with whom it has been a pleasure for me to do businesss." Additionally Partridge has crossed out the jacket price and has made a small notation on the list of other works noting one title as out of print. Faber & Faber unknown books
1947réf. 52465London: George Routledge & Sons ltd 1947. Third edition revised 12mo pp. ix 3 260; green cloth gilt; near fine in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Partridge to Laurie Atkinson contributor of a number of terms and phrases to his projects and with a peppering of annotations by Partridge noting on the list of his works which titles are out of print and which are in later editions and crossing out the price on the dust jacket. George Routledge & Sons ltd unknown books
1959réf. 51275London: Hamish Hamilton 1959. First abridged edition 16mo pp. 126; pictorial paper covered boards; fine with an inscription on the front free endpaper from Partridge to "Dick seasonally and always Eric 25 / xii / 1959. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1971réf. 52427New York: Books for Libraries Press 1971. Reprint edition 8vo pp. 256; original yellow cloth black title on spine; light spotting to upper edge else fine. Books for Libraries Press unknown books
1932réf. 51183n.p. i.e. Paris: privately printed at the Lecram-Press n.d. 1932. Second edition limited to 700 copies after 300 copies in the first square 8vo pp. 225 3; gray paper-covered boards printed labels on upper cover and spine paper cracking at the bottom of the spine underlining in pencil throughout; very good. A privately printed pseudonymous and erotic novel from the author publisher and lexicographer Eric Partridge. He requested that his authorship of the book be kept secret until his death stating in a letter to William R. Cagle "When I'm gone I'd like it slipped unobtrusively among my books. It belongs to an unregenerate period of my life; not that I'm ashamed of it. privately printed [at the Lecram-Press], n.d. unknown books
1928réf. 51224London: Scholartis Press 1928. 8vo pp. 8; self wrqppers; stapled as issued; near fine Announcing works by Partridge as well as 20 or so Scholartis Press titles together with works in preparation. Scholartis Press unknown books
1948réf. 52407London: Fredrick Muller Ltd 1948. First edition small slim 8vo pp. ix 1 176; original black cloth shadow on front free endpaper very good in dust jacket with spotting on verso and small loss of a square inch out of one corner of the upper panel. Inscribed by Partridge to his friend and collaborator "John W. Clark scholar and friend with compliments Eric Partridge 25 Dec. 1949." The book "covers not only the war of 1939-1945 but also more particularly the influence of wars and warfare on the vocabulary." jacket blurb. Fredrick Muller Ltd unknown books
