HOBSON, Oscar R. A Hundred Years of the Halifax. The History of the Halifax Building Society 1853 - 1953. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., [1953].
8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; in the original illustrated dust-wrapper; outer and lower edges untrimmed; pp. x, 190; with 41 illustrations, including the frontispiece; a little damage to the spine of the wrapper, as well as rubbing to extremities and light spotting; a little rubbing to lower portion of cloth boards; spotting to edges; else internally clean.
First edition. 'The story of the growth of the Halifax Building Society, recorded in these pages by Oscar R. Hobson, of the News-Chronicle, economist and journalist, is far more than a record of commercial success - for building societies touch our national life at many points' (front flap).
SKU: 2114122
HOBSON, Oscar R. A Hundred Years of the Halifax. The History of the Halifax Building Society 1853 - 1953. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., [1953].
8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; in the original illustrated dust-wrapper; outer and lower edges untrimmed; pp. x, 190; with 41 illustrations, including the frontispiece; a little damage to the spine of the wrapper, as well as rubbing to extremities and light spotting; a little rubbing to lower portion of cloth boards; spotting to edges; else internally clean.
First edition. 'The story of the growth of the Halifax Building Society, recorded in these pages by Oscar R. Hobson, of the News-Chronicle, economist and journalist, is far more than a record of commercial success - for building societies touch our national life at many points' (front flap).
SKU: 2114122
