Ciphergrams by Yardley Herbert (4 results)
Published by Hutchinson, GB, 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United KingdomRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: G++. No DW. Not dated but perhaps about 1933. Clean tight text is a bit browned at text edges. Sound covers (pale burgundy cloth lettered in black) are a bit dust marked and front ocver has small damo mark bottom right). Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
More imagesPublished by Hutchinson, London
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United KingdomDouglas Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue & white hessian with blue lettering and borders to fr. and sp., generally clean, outer corners a trifle bumped. 191 pp., many being full-page blank grids for use in deciphering (at leat one partially completed in pencil), a clipping about writing in cipher from unid…entified paper or journal slipped in; major problem is tanning to edges throughout, occ. spreading more inwards, otherwise clean and unmarked bar the cipher-grid penciling.Undated, other listing suggest 1930s, clearly 1920s-1930s on internal evidence. The format of the book is to provide shorty stories including a coded message for reader to decipher, many of these are First World War in context. Apparently fairly uncommon. 13 cm x 19 cm.
More imagesPublished by Hutchinson, London, 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United KingdomLycanthia Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. Cloth slightly darkened at spine; jacket darkened at spine, some wear with loss to head of spine and upper fore-corner. Book.
Published by Hutchinson & Co london, 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United KingdomDeightons
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 65.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. (4) + 190 + (2)pp. Numerous unentered grids. Publisher's mottled grey/silver plain cloth covers, blur lettering + treble blue lines around edges on front ¤& spine. Red colour pictorial dw, red lettering on white spine, black letteri…ng with diagonal white area + black/red/white section lines down side on front, not clipped. Original white eps. Covers : faint browning. Dw : spine browning, 1cm chip + rub top of spine, rubs to corners. Contents : pages browning else very clean & tight & unentered. Faint cigarette smokey smell - hence the browning. Tight unentered copy. VG/VG-. WE SPECIALISE IN MATHEMATICS, PUZZLES & CONUNDRUMS. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE.
