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Secret and Urgent The Story of Codes and Ciphers
by Fletcher Pratt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Formby, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Blue Ribbon Books. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, grey boards, spine ends bumped. Pages rough cut and browned; text block is generally clean and free of markings. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, significant loss on the front right corner, open tear on the back; price clipped. ; 282 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Truffle Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8
- Title
- Secret and Urgent The Story of Codes and Ciphers
- Author
- Fletcher Pratt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Publisher
- Blue Ribbon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
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About the Seller
Truffle Books
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Formby, Merseyside
About Truffle Books
Truffle Books was created by the coming together of 4 experienced book-dealers. We tend to specialise in modern first editions but we also have a good selection of antiquarian books. We have a large selection of books in stock and there are always a significant number of books not online, so if you cannot see what you want, please ask, we may well be able to find the book that you want.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....