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Hi Johnny, are you sure there are no ISBNs? Could you double check, and if this check again confirms it then I need to create a new edition of the book with no ISBNs.In creating a new book I need the following info:
- The cover, which you could either scan or take a photo of and post it through GR or http://imgur.com/ (you don't need to sign up for this)
- If there is a blurb/synopsis could you either type it up or take a photo of it so I can do it myself.
- The format of the book (hardcover, papaerback etc.)
Nandar: I have my copy in front of me -- something I didn't have yesterday I first saw your comment.Definitely no ISBN. Remember, this was published in 1970 -- the year that ISBNs started being used. McGraw-Hill might not have been using them yet when this book was released.
I checked several online bookstores, hoping to find a cover image. No luck there; I'll see about getting a scan of my copy. But I did notice that, with one exception, none of the copies I saw offered had an ISBN listed. In the one case where an ISBN was listed, it matched the ISBN given on the page.
Format -- Hardcover.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (from the dust jacket):
"JAMES RAYMOND WOLFE is a freelance writer, the author of three books, and countless magazine and newspaper articles. This is his first venture into the juvenile field. A native of New York City, Mr. Wolfe was commissioned in the Naval Reserve shortly after his graduation from college in 1943. He eventually got command of his own ship in the latter part of World War II. He served again during the Korean War.
Mr. Wolfe has worked as a criminal investigator and as a security specialist for the federal government and several large corporations. Now retired, he devotes all his time to writing."
I'll post the rest of the dust jacket info separately, to be certain I have enough space.
From the dust jacket:"SECRET WRITING tells the fascinating story of codes and ciphers. The author has included many intriguing and little-known historical anecdotes to illustrate the importance of cryptography through the ages. He tells of a Nazi spy ring that used a cipher so simple a beginner could break it in minutes; of Mary Queen Of Scots and Charles I of England, who lost their heads because a lack of finesse in the craft of cryptography; and of the roles of ciphers in the American Revolution and the American Civil War.
"But the author's main emphasis is not on the part ciphers played in history, but rather on methods of making and breaking them. The reader will learn how the favorite cipher of Soviet secret agents is broken, and how to set up a practically unbreakable cipher -- one that would stump even expert codebreakers -- using a key taken from any popular magazine.
"The idea of secrecy in communication has always been an intriguing one, and James Raymond Wolfe makes good use of this interest in a book that is well researched and has the depth to hold the interest of the most demanding teenaged reader. SECRET WRITING was planned with the idea of telling what cryptography is about, how codes and ciphers developed, and how they work. But most of all the book will give the reader a chance to become acquainted with the calculated gibberish to which people, and even entire nations, trust their lives and fortunes."
Thanks for the information :)Book created:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Author page updated:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Okay, I got the cover scanned (which wasn't as easy as it sounds), and I uploaded the image to my page. It's not my profile pic; it's the other image.
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Cover uploaded.
So you're saying that the edition that was created was superfluous, rivka?
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The page count is 192 pages.
Other information -- it was published in 1970 by McGraw-Hill.