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The American Black Chamber / by Herbert O. Yardley.
LIBRA D639.S7 Y3 1931
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yardley, Herbert O. (Herbert Osborn), 1889-1958.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division. Section No. 8.
- United States.
- Cryptography.
- World War, 1914-1918--United States--Cryptography.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Secret service--United States.
- Military intelligence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Taefz, Julius E (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Williams, Richard Norris, 2nd (bookplate) (former owner) (RBC LC copy)
- Williams, Richard Norris, 2nd, Mrs. (donor) (RBC LC copy)
- Mendelsohn, Charles J. (Charles Jastrow), 1880-1939 (autograph) (donor) (RBC Dewey copy)
- Mendelsohn, Esther Jastrow (donor) (RBC Dewey copy)
- Physical Description:
- 375 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1931]
- Notes:
- The history and work of the Cryptographic Bureau, officially known as Section 8 of the Military Intelligence Division (MI-8).
- Local Notes:
- RBC Dewey copy has copious ms. notes by Charles J. Mendelsohn who worked with Yardley in MI-8.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate on front pastedown: "From the books of Julius E Taefz".
- Cited in:
- Galland, J.S. Historical and analytical bibl. of the lit. of cryptology, 206
- Shulman, D. Annotated bibl. of cryptography, I, p. 99
- OCLC:
- 2036948
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