WEATHER INFERENCE
by HOLLAND, D. J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/VG
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1953* Publisher: Cambridge Press.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, some slight marks to boards. VG++* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper, maroon weather chart on grey. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 30/-. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Some small nicks and tears. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight offsetting to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w line drawn charts throughout. Some with monochrome highlights.* Pages: 192 pp. text. vi pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book is a commentary by a young professional meteorologist on the weather that he observed in England as a boy, in 1936, when he had no more facilities than are available to every reader. It illustrates from actual results the analysis and forecasting of weather by nmeans of local observations and charts from the Meteorological Office. The reader may thus learn what lies behind the general techniques of weather forecasting and how he or she may make improved weather forecasts for him or her self.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. edition thus with only minor faults reducing it to VG.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4132
- Title
- WEATHER INFERENCE
- Author
- HOLLAND, D. J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- CAMBRIDGE
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge UK 192
- Date Published
- 1953-01-01
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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...
- Crisp
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- Price Clipped
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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- Bumps
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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