LOOK UP AND HOPE! The Motto of the Volunteer Prison League: The Life of Maud Ballington Booth.
by Welty, Susan F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in blue cloth in a good only dust jacket with some overall edgewear./blue cloth in a good only
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Thomas Nelson & Sons,, (1961). SIGNED photograph, hardcover first edition -. Near fine in blue cloth in a good only dust jacket with some overall edgewear.. First printing. A biography by a family friend of Maud Ballington Booth (1865-1948), a pioneering social worker and reformer, co-founder with her husband General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America. As the title indicates, this focuses on Booth's work for prison reform and to help former prisoners adjust to the world outside. Frontispiece portrait. Laid in is a small snapshot of a pile of these books, with a friendly typed note on the verso, and SIGNED by the author, Susan Welty. Sources, index. 284 pp.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 87604
- Title
- LOOK UP AND HOPE! The Motto of the Volunteer Prison League: The Life of Maud Ballington Booth.
- Author
- Welty, Susan F
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED photograph, hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in blue cloth in a good only dust jacket with some overall edgewear.
- Jacket Condition
- blue cloth in a good only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1961)
- Keywords
- prison reform,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - autobiography - memoirs;
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