Sweeper in the Sky The Life of Maria Mitchell First Woman Astronomer In America

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First Editon. Very good+ in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with two closed tears to the cloth at the head of the spine and with rubbing to the upper and lower fore corners of the spine and a prior owner's name on the first free end page. In a good, price clipped dust jacket with spots of foxing on the verso of the jacket and on the rear panel and with multiple shallow chips to the ends of the spine area and with creasing and rubbing and wear to the edges of the panels. 253 pages including an index, biographical note and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Mitchell from an earlier work of art. Difficult to find in a dust jacket. (Inventory #: TB33683)