Laurence Dwight Smith (87 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Paperback. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with creases and soiling.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. First Green Dragon paperback edition of the first novel by Smith. Light edge wear. Slight creasing to the spine and cover. Earlier owner scribbled over a name on the title page. In poor condition.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reissue. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover, no dust jacket. Gray cloth with red decoration and lettering to spine. Pages clean and unmarked throughout. Errata sheet tipped in before preface. A nice overview of codes and ciphers. Covers have some light brown spotting on top quarter.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Some rubbing wear on front cover and spine. Mark on back cover. Text clean with no tears, marks, or creases. This dover edition, first published in 1955, is an unabridged replication of the 1943 first edition with corrections. History and modern use of codes and ciphers, together with 151 problems and their solutions. Contents include: I. Secret Weapon No. One; II. The History of Secret Writing; III. Transposition Ciphers; IV. Substitution Ciphers; V. Codes Compared with Ciphers; VI. Cryptanalysis; VII. Problems; and VIII. Solutions.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Laune, Paul (illustrator). Some wear and soiling to the yellow cloth; missing the front endpaper; pages toned; a solid reading copy of an old book. Illustrator: Laune, Paul. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 151282.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Menten Inc. (Cover Design) (illustrator). 164 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Occassional pencil markings on text. Stains on top and fore edges. Marks on front cover. Creased front cover.

0 Very good. No dust jacket. light shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Not First Edition. Yellow cloth, with light soiling along edges and spine. A solid copy, with light age toning of paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Unabridged Republication. Lightly edgeworn, small scrape on lower corner of front cover from apparent sticker removal. "history and modern use of codes and ciphers, together with 151 problems and their solutions" 164 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. General shelf wear. No jacket, if issued. Pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. An Ex-Library volume in the publisher's original dark yellow cloth with black spine lettering, octavo, pp. 164.  Reprinted from the First Edition with corrections.  FAIR-only, with some shelf-rubbing discoloration to the cloth.  Spine ends and board tips are worn through.  Front board is loosening from the text block. Library stamps and call number.  Some paper on the front pastedown has peeled away near bottom (see our image).

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Solid with a spine roll and the bottom 1.25 inch of the spine is missing. There are a few creases on the covers too.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 164 pages. History and modern use of codes and ciphers, together with 151 problems and their solutions. Some edge wear and rubbing.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 164 pages. Very good condition, owner name in ink stamp on front free end paper.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Milton Marx (illustrator). The covers have edge wear and some spots are scuffed, are soiled and have bumped corners. The spine has moderate wear and light soiling. There is writing on the ffe, light soiling to the page edges and the pages have yellowed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor dj. Illustrated by (dj) Galdone (illustrator). First Edition. [well-worn ex-rental library book with the usual depredations (multiple stamps on endpapers, additional stamps on top and bottom edges, etc.), front hinge cracked with webbing fully exposed; jacket is similarly well-worn and (surprise!) firmly glued down at the flaps in that typical 1930s-era rental-library manner)]. "A fast-moving detective story in which Earl Standish, who has an international reputation in police circles for ferreting out secrets, devotes some six months in the search of 20-year-old Ruth Boynton who has disappeared while on a shopping tour." NOISBN.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Green Dragon Bokos. Mystery. Very good condition. Faint edge-wear on front and back covers. Reader's crease along spine-edge on front cover. Spine is slanted. Creases down spine. Small tear on lower right of spine. Reader's creases along spine-edge on back cover. Small part of upper and lower left corners are missing (see photo). Weak front hinge.

Soft cover. Condition: VG; nice copy.

Paperback. first PB. 33, very good - fine, reading crease mystery novel, paperback,

Condition: New.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1939. Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Laune, Paul (illustrator). Bound in blue cloth covers with yellow letters. 220 pages. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Ed. VG to VG+ in pictorial wraps with black & white lettering & cover art picturing a naked woman covered in feathers rising from a cop's hat. Mystery about a murder in a very exclusive New York community. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Ed. VG in red pictorial wraps with yellow & white lettering & cover art by H. Lawrence Hoffman picturing a giant ear superimposed over a man being readied for surgery. Mystery novel about a young intern who is certain that a corpse with a listening expression was murdered & not a suicide. Mystery, Digest Paperback.

Good to Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Pictorial Boards, Cloth Spine. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color and b/w drawings of cats by the artist. Top corner of two pages torn off,interior slightly browning.Corners of boards worn.Jacket torn and worn.Approximately 50 pages.