education poker player including where de yardley herbert (17 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Trade paperback, lightly used, lightly read. Former owner's name written on front end page; clean text, firm binding.,

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No markings.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Good clean copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges. Light bumping along edges of jacket. Some rubbing and fading to jacket. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.89.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.89.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.89.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to boards and dust jacket due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.89.

Hardcover. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : VG. NINTH PRINTING.

8vo. x, 129, [1] pp. Green cloth, blue & red lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd of spine, 1 sml clsd tear, price-clppd), VG/VG- copy. Early printing of this book on training to be a poker player, by the noted codebreaker and cryptographer.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Thus. a little dustiness on top edge, else generally fine copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. First edition, sixth printing. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (light edge wear) dust jacket (in mylar). 129 pps.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Paperback 1980. Clean & tight. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SD989.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good -. Second Printing. Near fine; priced dust jacket edge wear, short tear at spine, very good-. 8vo. green cloth, (x) 129 pp. Each chapter begins with a poker story followed by instructions. Yardley, from Indiana, was the cryptographer in World War I who cracked the Japanese diplomatic code and wrote The American Black Chamber on codes and spies.

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.

10th printing chipped dust jacket Nice copy octavo 129pp., ,

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. UK First edition and the first printing with the Ian Fleming introduction. Octavo, pp 143. Bound in paper covered hard boards over blue cloth covered spine. In the original price clipped dust jacket. This book was originally published in the US in 1957 and the UK edition was enhanced with an introduction by Ian Fleming. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket which has some minor wear at the spine ends and a little surface scuff (4mm x 5mm) on the middle of the spine. [Gilbert B1(1)].