Barrio Language Dictionary: First Dictionary of Caló

First Edition. 160 pp., offset on commercial stock in stiff printed wrappers. 8vo. Very good. Minor toning, soiling to covers but overall sturdy with clean and bright interiors. [2710]

A dictionary, claiming to be the first of its kind, of the uniquely Mexican-American argot or slang referred to as Caló, spoken in the Mexican-American neighborhoods or "barrios" of U.S. border cities and deriving from a mixture of Mexican Spanish, American English, and some influence from indigenous Mexican languages such as Nahuatl. Definitions are given in English.