SIGNED; Blood & Fire: William & Catherine Booth, Salvation Army - Roy Hattersley

Blood & Fire: William and Catherine Booth and Their Salvation Army (Signed Copy) \nHattersley, Roy\nPublished by Little, Brown and Company, London, 1990. First edition and impression. Signed directly to the title page by the author, Roy Hattersley, later Baron Hattersley, without inscription. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends with minor bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have a hint of age toning, but clean and tight overall. 8vo. Pp viii + 471 + 16pp monochrome half-tone photographs. Jacket unclipped with minor creasing to the edges, wraparound 'Signed by the Author' band of Jarrolds (department store in Norwich). \nWilliam Booth was one of the most extraordinary men of his age - a pawnbroker's clerk who was to found the most successful religious movement of the nineteenth century. It now numbers its membership in hundreds of thousands and can be found in virt.