Codebreakers by Kahn: First Edition (14 results)
Language: English
Published by Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.Better World Books
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Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Published by Macmillan 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. No jacket. Light wear to the boards. Good binding. The names of two former owners on the front endpaper, one crossed out. Pages unmarked. Not ex-library, no stickers. Ships in a box.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1996. Scribner. 1st Printing of This New Revised & Updated Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684831309. 1200 pages. hardcover. keywords: Codes History Espionage. DESCRIPTION - The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and… ciphers - how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage - updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. David Kahn's The Codebreakers takes the measure of what codes and codebreaking have meant in human history in a single comprehensive account, astonishing in its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, The Codebreakers has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, The Codebreakers is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art. inventory #23024.
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1967), London, UK 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover w/DJ. Condition: Used-Very Good/Used-Good. First Edition. London, UK: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Used-Very Good/Used-Good. (1967). First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. First Printing . Sm 4to., 1164 pp, DJ rubbed, frayed . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).
Published by Macmillan
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards may have fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages unmarked. Sealed in plastic for shi…pping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Published by The MacMillan Company, New York 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 1164 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on blue cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled. Previous owner's name stamp on rear paste-down. DJ moderately soiled w/ approx. 1/2" closed tear to top edge of spine. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents v…ery nice.
Published by The MacMillan Company, New York 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 1164 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on blue cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled. DJ moderately soiled. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.
Published by The MacMillan Company, New York 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 1164 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on blue cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled. DJ moderately soiled. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.
More imagesPublished by Macmillan Company 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Zach the Ripper Books, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.Zach the Ripper Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good +. Stated first printing. Unclipped ($14.95), mylar protected dust jacket. Clean text. Solid binding. Some wear to the spine ends (and some minor creasing), and along the bottom of the boards. The DJ has some creasing to the spine's head with a 1/2" closed tear and a small piece missing. The… heel has minor creasing. The back/bottom edge has a 1 1/2" closed tear with some creasing. Some overall light soiling. The inside back flap has a corner crease, the top edge is curled inward with one 1/4" closed tear. +The backboard does have the Book Club dimple with the number 56046 underneath it.
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Printing. 1164, illus., bibliography, notes, index, some soiling & spotting to fore-edge, Small tears and creases in lower margin front flyleaf through p. vi. DJ soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist… and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent as a boy. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler; they are now divorced. They have two sons, Oliver and Michael. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday for several years. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about two defectors from the National Security Agency. This article was the origin of his monumental book, The Codebreakers. The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. Most of the editing, German translating, and insider contributions were from the American World War II cryptographer, Bradford Hardie III. William Crowell, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was quoted in Newsday as saying "Before he (Kahn) came along, the best you could do was buy an explanatory book that usually was too technical and terribly dull." Kahn, then a newspaper journalist, was contracted to write a book on cryptology in 1961. He began writing it part-time, at one point quitting his regular job to work on it full-time. The book was to include information on the National Security Agency (NSA), and according to the author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him. A committee of the United States Intelligence Board concluded that the book was "a possibly valuable support to foreign COMSEC [communications security] authorities" and recommended "further low-key actions as possible, but short of legal action, to discourage Mr. Kahn or his prospective publishers". Kahn's publisher, the Macmillan company, handed over the manuscript to the federal government for review without Kahn's permission on March 4, 1966. Kahn and Macmillan eventually agreed to remove some material from the manuscript, particularly concerning the relationship between the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ. The Codebreakers was a finalist for the non-fiction Pulitzer Prize in 1968.
More imagesPublished by New York: The Macmillan Company 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Very good, if not very good plus or near fine hardback in very good, if not very good plus or near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Book has light, if not very light bumps to upper fore-edge corner of rear cover and to front cove…r at head of spine; a bookplate (5 inch by 4 inch) of previous owner on front pastedown; and additional minor, if not trivial signs of age/wear/previous use to book. Dust jacket has a light, if not very light crease running from head to heel of spine; A 2 inch closed tear to lower edge or rear spine fold; and minor additional wear to head and heel of spine, corners, edges and extremities.
Published by The Macmillan Company 1967
- First Edition
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, CanadaRussell Books
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Published by The Macmillan Company, New York 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Printing [stated]. xvi, [2], 1164 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes to Text. Notes to Illustrations. Index. DJ has wear, tears soiling, and chips. The First Comprehensive History Of Secret Communication From Ancient Times To The Threshold Of Outer…Space David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. The Codebreakers was a finalist for the nonfiction Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent as a boy. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler; they are now divorced. They have two sons, Oliver and Michael. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday for several years. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about two defectors from the National Security Agency. This article was the origin of his monumental book, The Codebreakers. The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. Most of the editing, German translating, and insider contributions were from the American World War II cryptographer, Bradford Hardie III. William Crowell, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was quoted in Newsday as saying "Before he (Kahn) came along, the best you could do was buy an explanatory book that usually was too technical and terribly dull." Kahn, then a newspaper journalist, was contracted to write a book on cryptology in 1961. He began writing it part-time, at one point quitting his regular job to work on it full-time. The book was to include information on the National Security Agency (NSA), and according to the author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him. A committee of the United States Intelligence Board concluded that the book was "a possibly valuable support to foreign COMSEC [communications security] authorities" and recommended "further low-key actions as possible, but short of legal action, to discourage Mr. Kahn or his prospective publishers". Kahn's publisher, the Macmillan company, handed over the manuscript to the federal government for review without Kahn's permission on March 4, 1966. Kahn and Macmillan eventually agreed to remove some material from the manuscript, particularly concerning the relationship between the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ. The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphersâ"how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage. Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology t.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 1967 1967
- First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
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1st edition chipped dust jacket Near Fine octavo xvi + 1164pp., b/w pls., bibliog., notes (162pp.), index, Comprehensive history of secret communication. Full unabridged edition. Scarce & desirable. This copy has been annotated & extra-illustrated by the previous owner, a Hungarian historian. 11 additional photos tipped-in.
