Half Hours With The Summer Stars, Mary Proctor, 1911 First Edition

Yeah, I need to re-shoot this one. Hardcover in olive cloth showing shelf wear and distinct blurring.

 

That's a little better. This is a first edition. The author is the daughter of Richard Proctor, British astronomer whose book Our Place Among Infinities I posted pictures of earlier.

This book is a collection of Ms. Proctor's articles that appeared in The Chicago Tribune during August-October 1910 and one article that appeared in Scientific American. Each chapter starts with some astronomically relevant quoted verse and her own writing is a tad flowery, but that was the style of the day.