New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, (1961) dj. SIGNED photograph, hardcover first edition - 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.