Truth Will Out

Haldane, Charlotte

Published by London George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited 1949, 1949

First edition. 339 pages. The book is firmly bound in somewhat marked, rubbed and bumped red cloth, lettered in tarnished gilt to the spine. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and age toned. The dust jacket is the original and not price clipped, it is toned and marked, more so to the spine, with small areas of loss and short closed tears to the edges, some repaired to the reverse with small pieces of thin paper archival tape. Some autobiographies wax long and nostalgic over childhood and formative years, concerned to convey to the reader the subtle background influences that shaped the subject's path through life, others are written with an urgency and purpose when the subject feels released from some form of peculiar restraint that has kept them silent for a long while and concentrate on the comparatively recent past. This is definitely one of the latter, in her early life Haldane was: "a tiresome little prig and an intellectual snob" and the chief influences on her life were antisemitism, feminism and social injustice, that's all you need to know, and as an experienced journalist Haldane wastes few pages before getting to the matters that concern her, namely: the Communist Party, her time as a member and her views on communist and socialist projects worldwide, based upon her experiences in Russia, Spain and China. Though well represented in institutional holdings, the book is surprisingly uncommon in commerce, particularly in the fragile dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 6715

Bibliographic Details

Title: Truth Will Out
Publisher: London George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited 1949
Publication Date: 1949
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition