The Enigma, November 2006, #1227, (National Puzzlers' League, monthly magazine)
National Puzzlers' League, November 2006. Pamphlet. 32 page stapled pamphlet. {5 & 3/8' x 8 & 1/2'] Mild toning. Clean, sound, without markings. More
Science
Modern science and modern man (Anchor 10)
Doubleday Anchor, January 1953. Paper Back. Cover clean & bright. Tan stain inside first few pages. [187 pp. plus nine page list of avialble Anchor titles.]. More
Farther Shore (Vintage Books)
Vintage Books USA, April 1991. Trade Paperback. A work of extraordinary erudition and clarity, The Farther Shore shows how technology has transformed civilization, and how it has profoundly altered the ways we perceive virtually everything. A brilliant illumination of what the human race has made of itself and the world..... More
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy (Vintage)
Vintage, December 1996. Trade Paperback. Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides..... More
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe (Science Masters Series)
Basic Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (Harper Colophon Books)
HarperCollins, September 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
Ecw Press, November 2009. Trade Paperback. Edison's Concrete Piano highlights the careers of famous inventors -- revealing the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and especially their big flops and great successes. Take Thomas Edison for example, who revolutionized our world with the light bulb..... More
Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas
Mariner Books, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Studies the work and unique methods of three women scientists who contributed to understanding chimpanzees, mountain gorillas, and orangutans. Here is the story of three gifted women trained by the famed Louis Leakey. This book, 'a sensitive and revealing contribution to the legend of..... More
The Geometry of Art and Life
Dover Publications, June 1977. Trade Paperback. For the philosopher, scientist, archaeologist, art historian, biologist, poet and artist, as well as the general reader who wants to understand more about the fascinating properties of numbers and geometry, and their relationship to art and life, this is a thought-provoking book. More
Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci
HarperCollins Publishers, March 2006. Trade Paperback. The Nature of Genius Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the..... More
BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS
Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering and gold decorative cover design. Moire end pages. Two different pieces of Easton empherma laid in. One is unused Easton Press Ex-libris. The other a 4' x 6' double side cardstock 'note about Bully for Brontosaurus and the..... More
IBM Research A Study of the Vigenere-Vernam Single and Multiple Loop Enciphering Systems (RC 2879) #13538
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, May 1970. Stapled Pamphlet. Quarto. {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'} Stapled (2-staples) 115 pages cardstock (grey & white) cover.Cover is mildly edgeworn with foxing/marginal darkening. Dust stain textblock edges. More
History of Codes and Ciphers in the U.S. During the Period Between World Wars: 1919-1929 (Cryptographic Series, #22, Part 1)
Aegean Park Press, June 1979. First Edition. Soft Cover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x11'} Moderate tanning of spine. Interiors clean, unmarked. (186 pp.). More
Voynich Manuscript an Elegant Enigma (Cryptographic Series #27)
Aegean Park Press, 1981. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Tan cardstock cover. Clean, sound, without interior markings. (140 pp) Undated. Probably a reprint, and I think originally published in 1979. 1981 is just a guess for reprint date. More
Hobby Cryptography: Eighty-Seven Classical Ciphers Classified & Updated (version 981023)
Clayton C Pierce, 1998. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black wrap around cardstock (shiny & textured on outside and plain black on verso. (Report cover / perfect bound) xxii pages of introductory material, supplementory articles & index on dull yellow stock at..... More
Hobby Cryptography: Eighty Three Classical Ciphers Classified & Updated (VERSION 081197)
Clayton C Pierce, April 1997. Soft Cover. Quarto {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black binder and back cover of flexible cardstock with shiny textured outside and verso is plain black cardstock surface. The numeration of this version of Hobby Cryptography is even stranger than that..... More
An approach to cryptarithms,
F.D. Lynch, January 1963. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. {6' x 9'}; Wrapper is grey cardstock with black lettering front panel. Tanning to spine margins. Light discoloring from exposure to light over the years. Text is without markings or underlining. The last page (a blank page) has some notes across the top..... More
Manual For Cryptanalysis Of The Columnar Double Transposition Cipher -- A Study of Cryptanalysis
Courville Association / Self-published, 1986. First Edition. Soft Cover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Tan textured cardstock wrapper with darkened spine. Internal pages heavily foxed on endstuff margins and edges. 91 pages. Scarce title. More
Starved: A Nutrition Doctor's Journey from Empty to Full
Central Recovery Press, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Failure to thrive is not a phrase in this doctor's vocabulary. At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at a boarding school. Overcome by sadness from the neglect she experiences there, Anne emotionally and physically starves. A doctor..... More
Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation (Second Edition)
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, January 1980. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Dustjacket is duststain with soiling, darkening at margins. Edgeworn with several tears along the top. Damp staining. Flap is not clipped. Red cloth with red & black cloth with gold lettering on spine and..... More
Pattern-word list (A Cryptographic series, #15)
Aegean Park Press, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. This is a rebind, remaking soft cover into hard cover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Tan cloth covered boards with white lettering upon spine. Cardstock cover from softcover edition of Pattern Word List (Vol. #1) is glued to front panel. Boards..... More
Pattern Word List For Divided and Undivided Cryptograms
Self Published, 1984. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Quarto.. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Light blue cardstock wrapper that is heavily foxed. Sunned at margins with horizontal bar of tanning across rear wrapper. 100 pages. More
Origin and Development of the Army Security Agency 1917-1947 (A Cryptograhic Series, #16)
Aegean Park Press, January 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Blue stiff cardstock cover with black lettering on spine and front panel. Corners bumped. Spine is cocked. End pages heavily tanned/foxed. 51 pages. More
Ciphers For Solvers
No publisher listed, 1954. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2') Darkened at spine. Tanned margins of cover. No markings within. No underlining. 30 pages. More
Cryptographic ABC's--Volume I, Substitution and Transposition Ciphers (Practical cryptanalysis, Volume IV)
American Cryptogram Association, January 1967. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. {6' x 9'}; Sunned at margins. Unmarked interiors. No underling. No side notes. 46 pages. More
