Alvin’s Secret Code was written by Clifford B. Hicks. Secret Codes and Writing was by Zimm and I had that book in grade school. Cryptography has been a hobby of mine since. Speaking of Zimm, he put out a lot of little handbooks which I read or owned. It was great being a kid in the 50s/60s before the onslaught of digital everything.
Lynd Ward, wow! Google him. I used to own a pair of Library of America volumes of his wordless novels done entirely in woodcut engravings. Remarkable stuff.
Right you are, Michael! Of course I should mention the unabridged version of David Kahn’s The Codebreakers, a real tome. I also read through the first volume of Bucky Fuller’s Synergetics but it seemed more like pseudo-science.
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The Mad Scientists Club books were important to my formative years, as was Alvin’s Secret Code by Herbert S. Zimm.
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Alvin’s Secret Code was written by Clifford B. Hicks. Secret Codes and Writing was by Zimm and I had that book in grade school. Cryptography has been a hobby of mine since. Speaking of Zimm, he put out a lot of little handbooks which I read or owned. It was great being a kid in the 50s/60s before the onslaught of digital everything.
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Those sound like fantastic books. They obviously stuck with you.
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Lynd Ward, wow! Google him. I used to own a pair of Library of America volumes of his wordless novels done entirely in woodcut engravings. Remarkable stuff.
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His work would make for great posters.
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Right you are, Michael! Of course I should mention the unabridged version of David Kahn’s The Codebreakers, a real tome. I also read through the first volume of Bucky Fuller’s Synergetics but it seemed more like pseudo-science.
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