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NY: Popular Publications, 1953. Vol. 53, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Saunders for "Kisses Can't Buy Gringo Gold" (novelette) by Marion O'Hearn. Includes "Girl for a Fighting Man" (novelette) by Will Cook; "That Woman of Collison's" (novelette) by Philip Ketchum; "Girl-Hunt!" by A. C. Abbott; "Stage Kisses Are Dangerous" by William L. Jackson; "Rope Enough!" by H. A. DeRosso; "The Lady Was the target" by Robert Moore Williams. Star Features: "Aces and Queens"; "The Sage Hen" by John T. Lynch; "Pin-up Girl-of-the-Month" (illustrated feature). Illustrations uncredited. Creased; 1.5" loss at spine head; standard wear and tear at edges with minor losses; tanning.. SingleIssueMagazine. Good+ to Very Good-.
Telegraphic Cipher Code for Private and Confidential Use between The Corn Exchange Bank of New York City and its Correspondents by Ketchum, William H. (compiled) - 1909
by Ketchum, William H. (compiled)
Telegraphic Cipher Code for Private and Confidential Use between The Corn Exchange Bank of New York City and its Correspondents
by Ketchum, William H. (compiled)
- Used
- Hardcover
New York, 1909. Hardcover. Very good condition. A cipher code book from the Corn Exchange Bank to one of its subsidiaries the First National Bank of Middletown, NY. The first page has a hand written code number of 145 with the text, "All important telegrams should conclude with the correct test word as given below:" with a different hand written code word for each day of the week. The book chapters are: Calendar, Banks etc., Bankers, Cents, Fractions, Rates of Interest, Numbers and Dollars, Miscellaneous Phrases, with a different word representing every month, day, year, bank, person, number, dollar etc. Loosely inserted is a letter from the Corn Exchange Bank to First National Bank dated Feb. 9, 1922 advising a correction on page 43. The Corn Exchange Bank was originally founded in 1853 in New York but with branches in other states, and acquired other community banks over time. Offices were on William and Beaver Streets, William Street and then Grove Street (off of 7th Ave. in Greenwich Village). 12mo, tan cloth covers, black text on front, 134pp. Covers dusty, otherwise clean throughout.
- Bookseller Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very good condition
- Binding Hardcover
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1909