Item #47126 Mrs. Annie Besant: A Modern Prophet. Theodore BESTERMAN, Annie Besant.

Mrs. Annie Besant: A Modern Prophet.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 274pp. Purple cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontis. portrait. & plates. Index. A biography of Annie Besant (1847–1933) a prominent British socialist, Theosophist, women's rights activist. Besant was a prolific writer and powerful orator, who became the president of the Theosophical Society. Cloth rubbed, spine darkened and chafed at ends, corners bumped and rubbed, endpapers foxed, rear endpaper cracked at hinge (hinge still solid), otherwise a solid about VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #47126

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