Ciphergrams by Yardley (7 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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edn. HB.Cloth. DW. G/G+. Faint yellow stains on spine and front cover, split in cloth of front hing near base of spine, owner's ink signature (dated 1942) on ffep, dw grubby, top edges slightly chipped. Covers mottled blu/white cloth, dw red and black, none of the grids have been used. Book.

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. 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.