Gin Chow's first annual almanac

by Gin Chow

$30 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., 1932. Fifth printing, 12mo, pp. 61, 3 ; frontispiece portrait with stamped signature and an attempt at copying one character in pen; printed yellow boards; upper hinge starting near fine. Gin Chow was a Chinese born resident of California, made famous for predicting the weather, including that the summer of 1931 would be the hottest summer for many years, and that the 1931-32 season would be an extremely wet one.

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