Underground Dictionary by Landy Eugene (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. Book is in Very Good condition. Clean, tightly bound, and unmarked. The Underground Dictionary is a lexicon of slang, symbols, and phrases used within the American counterculture of the 1960s. The book serves as a historical document, capturing the language of a specific era and a wide range of subcultures, including hippies, "dopers," bikers, and musicians. Rather than being a formal academic text, the book is a collection of terms and their definitions, offering a fascinating glimpse into the vernacular of the time. It covers a variety of topics, from drug-related slang to terms for sex, music, and general counterculture attitudes. The work aims to be an exhaustive record of this language, which was often considered outside of the mainstream. Landy, who is perhaps better known for his controversial work as a psychologist for musician Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, compiled the dictionary to document this evolving language. The book has been noted for its accuracy in capturing the slang and for its historical value in preserving the linguistic landscape of the 1960s counterculture movement. 206 pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third edition, 1976. Red vinyl flexibound in slipcase. English words with definitions in Japanese. No markings noted, mild wear, aging. Slipcase in good condition with rubbing transfer of colors to white portions; gentle wear and tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: In archival mylar. Acceptable condition DJ with wear to edges, chipping and tears, now protected in archival mylar. Boards and spine intact. No apparent markings to pages. Tracking available on most domestic orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. No notes, inscriptions or underlining to text. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12mo bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red. Warmly inscribed to a colleague by Landt at ffep. Very Good in jacket with spine sunned to point of illegibility. Some foxing to endpapers and fore-edge. 206 pp. [OJ]. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: unknown (trade paperback). First printing. The trade paperback is in good condition, showing some signs of wear typical for its age. The cover has minor creases and edge wear, but the binding remains intact. There is no significant damage to the pages, and they are free from inscriptions or library markings.…

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First edition. A trove of 60s and 70s lingo, of course mainly about sex and drugs. From Jefferson Airplane: (d) Sniff or snort a burning marijuana cigarette, tofreak trick n. (pr) Man who buys a prostitute and engages in unusual or deviant sexual activities, eg, masturbating while holding an ice cube. 8vo, 206pp. Illustrated section of symbols at the rear. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red in illustrated jacket. Former owner's name to ffep, jacket price-clipped and with a few edge tears. Very good.…

Condition: Very Good+. dj. First Edition. Octavo. 206 pp. Publisher black cloth boards with spine lettered in silver, in original pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing, with full statement on copyright page. Price-clipped jacket with shallow edge creasing, bookplate to front paste-down. Pages clean and unmarked. The Underground Dictionary serves as an essential linguistic record of the American counterculture, defining thousands of slang terms from anti-war, hippie, biker, and drug subcultures. L1. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Small 8vo. [9], 10-206, [2] pp. Black cloth with red lettering on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed with personalization in the year of publication by the author. A list of terms and slang words that the youth of the sixties used. Landy characterizes these terms as ones used by hippes, Yippies, "dopers", bikers, musicians, teenyboppers, and others. With a symbol and a number glossary. A fascinating history of the language of the Counterculture Movement. A tiny blemish on the topstain; jacket with a crease on its front flap and light edge wear.…