Buenos Aires.
Una diccionario del hampa; en la portrada especifica que contiene el vocabulario de ladrones, criminales, bandidos, pordioeros, vagabundos, reos-el inframundo comercial, el trafico de drogas - la trata de blancas - rufianesy malandras.
A dictionary of the underworld; being the vocabulary of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps. convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic - the white slave traffic - SPIVS.
So read the curious title of a 1961 book housed under glass at the Biblioteca Nacional. The National Library. There were a number of donated books from Jorge Luis Borges; Argentina's number one literary son, complete with neat spider like notations in his handwriting on interesting bits in the books.
Next door and just down the road at the sister spot was the Museo del Libro y de la Lengua (the gallery of books and language) that had a marvelous exhibition of works from a famous printer in the 50's. I am going to need a crate to post all my ephemera collection home....
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