The American Black Chamber

by Herbert Osborn Yardley

£575 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1931. Espionage FIRST EDITION stated . Octavo 22 x 15cm pp.375; 9 , blank. Publisher's hardcovers, top edge red, illustrated dust-jacket priced 3.50. Contents clean, if a little toned, no inscriptions, jacket lightly worn to extremities. Near fine. Herbert Osborn Yardley was an American cryptologist, founder of the Black Chamber, a cryptographic organisation which broke Japanese diplomatic codes and supplied intelligence to U.S.

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