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Top Secret Ultra An Insider's Account of How British Intelligence Monitored and Broke the Nazi Top-Secret Codes
by Calvocoressi, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0394511549
- ISBN 13
- 9780394511542
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Stated First American edition. Hardcover in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. No name, no book-plate, etc. The memoir of the head of Air Intelligence at Bletchley Park, who gives an insider's view of the vast resources and man hours brought to bear on cracking the German Enigma code during some of Britain's darkest hours. Very fine in very good+ jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003021
- Title
- Top Secret Ultra An Insider's Account of How British Intelligence Monitored and Broke the Nazi Top-Secret Codes
- Author
- Calvocoressi, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394511549
- ISBN 13
- 9780394511542
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- World War II, Intelligence Service, Codebreaking, Cyphers, Non-Fiction, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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