yardley herbert 1889 1958 (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Solid binding. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Second printing (as stated upon copyright page). x, 129 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed and some soiling and staining; spine panel's lettering toned with surface abrasion and tearing to paper as well as chipped ends; nicks and short tears at panel edges; bottom corner of front flap is price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green cloth with spine lightly toned. Black top edge; toning to fore-edge and bottom edge. Dark blue endpapers; past owner's ink signature upon front pastedown mostly hidden underneath dj's front flap. Interior pages slightly toned at margins but otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy in a good dust jacket. American cryptologist Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) founded the United States' first peacetime cryptanalytic organization The Black Chamber, aka The Cipher Bureau, in May 1919 and successfully broke Japanese diplomatic codes. Early printings his poker treatise are uncommon.