Classic American Graffiti: Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America, 1977, SC, VG.

Walker Read, Allen, and Reinhold Aman. Wisconsin, Maledicta Press, 1977.  English, Very Good, Softcover, 8vo, 8 1/2" x 5 1/4", 83 pp. ISBN: 0916500063 Brown perfect-bound wraps, white lettering to front and spine, minor shelf wear to front, back, and edges, some sunning to spine, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [4] 83 + 7 pp., no images, Foreword and text by Allen Walker Read, Preface, Introduction, section I "The Nature of Obscenity," section II "Folk Epigraphy," section III "Biographical Note," Glossary of Stigmatized Words, Afterword by Reinhold Aman. From Read's Foreword: "I am happy that the following study, first printed forty-two years ago, can now be given a wider circulation. This was a pioneering work at that time, I believe, and even now can serve as a record of the 'bad words' then current and the fashions in graffiti."  From the Preface: "Judged merely as reading matter, the following work...is abominably, incredibly obscene, and the compiler beg