Ciphergrams by Yardley Herbert (6 results)

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Hardcover. 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 unidentified 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.

Condition: 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.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 190 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Ciphers. Cryptography. World War, 1914-1918 Secret service United States. Genre: Ciphers. Language: English. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 190 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Ciphers. Cryptography. World War, 1914-1918 Secret service United States. Genre: Ciphers. Language: English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. 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 lettering 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.