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TLS Jim Phelan, author of Wagon-Wheels etc, to Augustus John.

21/Nov

"Begging TLS of 21 November [....] from Jim Phelan, author of Wagon-Wheels etc, to Augustus John. 1 p."

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Out with Romany : adventures with birds and animals

Evens, George Bramwell (1885-1943)

1937

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We follow the roads

Phelan, Jim (1895-1966)

1949

An account of the author's experiences as a "traveller".

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No resting place

Niall, Ian (1916-)

1948

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Observation d'un voyageur sur les Gitanos

Henry, Dominique Marie Joseph

[ca. 1820]

Author named at end as "D. Henry".

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1811 dictionary of the vulgar tongue : a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence

Grose, Francis (1731?-1791); Clarke, Hewson (1787-1832?)

[1971]

Reprint of the author's Lexicon balatronicum; a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence (an enl. revision, by H. Clarke, of the author's A classical dictionary of the vul...

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Le monde des Tsiganes

Vaux de Foletier, Francois de (1893-1988)

c1983

Bibliography: p. 208-213.

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Canto for a gypsy

Smith, Martin Cruz (1942-)

c1972

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