Useful Science for High School: A Textbook in General Science

Type: Hardback 1939 Science Textbook for High School. First US Edition--first published in LOndon. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Frontis in full color. Blue full cloth binding is clean, light wear to corners and edges, sewn binding tight and solid, with slight wobble to spine. Former owner name and address on endpaper in pencil. Pages faintly toned, quite clean, no markings of any kind, no creasing. A nice volume detailing science as taught understood in 1939 and years after, from air, water, matter, power and energy, sound, light, electricity, magnetism, living things--animals, plants, human body and keping fit, mold and yeasts, bacteria, the balance of nature, earth science, weather, and astronomy--our place in the sky. Quite an interesting look at science as understood mid- 20th century, in a good, solid volume. 712 pages, indexed. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1939, The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia and London.