Ninth Astronomer Royal: The Life of Frank Watson Dyson

Cambridge: Published for the Dyson Family by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1951. Near Fine/Very Good. Cambridge: Published for the Dyson Family by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1951. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],294pp.; halftone frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, else a Very Good or better copy. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.