The Telescope: An Illustrated Magazine of Astronomy--Volume I[One][1] (July, 1933) through Volume IV [Four][4] (November-December 1937)

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bond Astronomical Club, Harvard University Custom-bound by prior owner in dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine; prior owner initials at lower spine. Decorative endpapers. Periodical beginning with Volume I, No. 1, July, 1933, and continuing after April 1934 bi-monthly through Volume IV, Number 6, November-December 1937. According to Charles Federer, author of an article entitled "The Story of 'The Sky,'" ("Sky and Telescope, November, 1986), "The Telescope" was a magazine for amateur astronomers published between 1931 and 1941; it later became "Sky and Telescope." The original editor was Harlan Stetson, director of the Perkins Observatory in Ohio. When Stetson moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1934, he brought the magazine with him. Publishing duties were assumed jointly by the Harvard College Observatory and the Bond Astronomical Club, and the magazine became a bimonthly publication (it was previously published quarterly). A copyright page at the front of this bound volume appears to have been printed after the merger, but it is bound here in front of the 1933 issues that make up the first part of Volume I (July, October, 1933 and April, 1934). The June, 1934 issue states that it is the first to be sponsored by the Bond Astrological Club. Accordingly, the prior owner neatly affixed small stickers to the first three mastheads and wrote in "Volume 1" to clarify the year's run. Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Few moderate superficial scratches to front board; faint scuffing to boards. Single minute spot stain to front endpapers. Some issues are lightly vertically creased at the centerpoint, due to either past storage or mailing. Clean and tight.