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released prisoners, building rescue homes for women, and offering legal aid for the poor. Loosely inserted is a facsimile letter from the Salvation Army general secretary which presented the book and a contemporary fundraising flyer for the Salvation Army. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Folding chromolithographic frontispiece. Rubbed, but sound, sporadic light foxing but contents unmarked, folding frontispiece without tears or repairs; a good copy. ¶ Printing and the Mind of Man 373. G. S. Railton, The Authoritative Life of General William Booth , 1912, available online. £950 [151151]
inner covers of map volumes), shelfmarks to spines, and shelf labels to front covers. 9 volumes (7 text volumes, 2 map volumes), octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt London School of Economics device to front covers. Text volumes: portrait frontispiece to vol. I, folding map frontispiece to other volumes, 8 other folding maps, integral charts and tables throughout. Map volumes: 13 folding maps. Library stamp to titles. Contemporary newspaper clipping pasted to front free endpaper of vol. I. One folding map in vol. I with acetate overlay which is now partly torn and fragmented but all present. Light sunning to spines, slight wear to rear joint of second map volume, but cloth generally fresh, all joints and hinges intact; contents with light age toning but clean and unmarked. An excellent set. £7,500 [136589] 24 BOOTH, William. In Darkest England and the Way Out. London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, [1890] Signed by the author, from the library of a Salvation Army campaigner First edition of the founder of the Salvation Army’s “classic in the literature of poverty” ( ODNB ), signed by the author on a presentation plate to the front pastedown, distributed in 1894 to Salvation Army supporters to mark Booth’s 50th birthday. The presentation plate is signed to Colonel Pepper, an associate of Booth and a noted member of the Salvation Army. Booth’s brother Railton noted Pepper in his biography of Booth: “Strange and sad that throughout all the years of our most desperate fighting we scarcely ever found men from the ‘better classes’ daring to march with us. One noble exception, Colonel Pepper, of Salisbury, with his wife, never hesitated, in the roughest times, to take their stand with their humblest comrades, glad to go through whatever came” (Railton, p. 90). In Darkest England and the Way Out outlines how to tackle poverty, addiction, slavery, unemployment, and homelessness, through the means of providing homes for the homeless and
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