Finerty, James J. “Criminalese.” Slang Talk of the

Finerty, James J. “Criminalese.” Slang Talk of the Criminal [cover title]. N.p., (1926). Original printed wraps. 72pp. 16mo. Covers creased, a few spots with underlining, otherwise good. Scarce pocket dictionary sold as a guide to police offers and attorneys to decipher criminal slang. According to text on the back cover, the work is an expanded and updated version of a “little book” first published in newspaper form in Muncie, Ind. in 1896. This is also the first work in which the expression “in the doghouse” was printed.