OPIE, Iona and Peter

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1959.

Octavo, 417 pages with numerous rhymes, chants, riddles and several maps.

Cloth; contemporary ownership details; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned, rubbed and torn with slight loss.

'A record of [a] strange and primitive culture, including seasonal customs, initiation rites, superstitious practices and beliefs ... and the traditional juvenile argot which continues to flourish in street and playground, largely unknown and certainly unheeded by the adult world'.

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