Charles C. Adams, Boontling: An American Lingo, University of Texas 1971, VG HC
Charles C. Adams, Boontling: An American Lingo, University of Texas 1971, VG HC
Charles C. Adams, Boontling: An American Lingo, University of Texas 1971, VG HC
Charles C. Adams, Boontling: An American Lingo, University of Texas 1971, VG HC
Charles C. Adams, Boontling: An American Lingo, University of Texas 1971, VG HC
Charles C. Adams, Boontling: An American Lingo, University of Texas 1971, VG HC

Charles C. Adams, Boontling: An American Lingo, University of Texas 1971, VG HC

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Adams, Charles C., Boontling: An American Lingo, with a Dictionary of Boontling, Austin: University of Texas Press 1971, Very Good hardcover 8vo, 6 ¼” x 9 ¼”, 272 pp.

Orange cloth boards, title stamped in gold & black to spine, binding tight, one tiny pencil inscription, in Very Good brown textured paper pictorial dust jacket w/ minor edgewear, now protected in Mylar. Includes a section of historical photographs and foldout map. Pink tag from a 1975 ‘Frolicking Friars’ E Clampus Vitus dinner at Berkeley’s Spenger’s Fish Grotto w/ typewritten Boontling text on reverse laid in. First edition of this landmark study of the unique dialect spoken between 1880 and 1920 by residents of the Anderson Valley in Mendocino County California which evolved from nicknames of local characters and other specific regional lore. An extensive Boontling dictionary and selected bibliography is included at rear. A unique contribution to the study of California folklore.