Author: GAER, JOSEPH
Title: Fair and Warmer - The Problem of Weather Forecasting and the Work of the United States Weather Bureau (National Problems Series)
Description: NY, Harcourt Brace, 1939 First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover . Hardback, octavo, appx 5 1/2 x 8 inches, blue titling and blue half-tone cloud photo on white cloth covers, xii + 137 pages, Near or About VG/no dj. Nice copy with some rather minor signs of age and wear. Snug binding, clean inside and out incl no names no writing, spine cloth uniform tanning not too bad, couple of edge repairs to half-title page (short tear lower edge, small shallow bump crinkle fore-edge) as well as to a very short fore-edge split p 27. A few illustrations and charts in the text + 4 four-pg sections of b&w photos on coated stock. Two Glossaries (Meteorological Terms, Weather Instruments), list of Ten Authors on the Weather, Index. Author s Wiki information: born in Bessarabia (now Moldova), taught at Cal-Berkeley + editor & field supervisor Federal Writers Project until 1935, Farm Security Administration until 1941, special assistant to Secretary of Treasury, worked with Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO and CIO-PAC), Boni & Gaer publishing company, etc. Prev owner interested in meteorology and as well in, apparently, deltiology w/ 3 five-cent postcards laid-in commemorating the centennial (1870-1970) of the US Weather Service. Very Good.

Keywords: Meteorology Prognostication Prediction Science History