Hard Facts

The Viking Press, New York. 1944. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumping to head, tail, and upper tips; light board bottom edge shelfwear; soiling to boards. No DJ. Gray cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals; internal hinges are sound. 283 pp 8vo. Theo Chrystal has come to Manchester as curate to the beloved vicar, a spiritual man, a saint whose feet are firmly placed on humble paths, who feels that the human contact is of greater importance than the intellectual or the shell of the spiritual. Theo is accidentally injected into the very beginnings of the phenomenal creation of the popular sheet, Hard Facts, where he gets to know the people connected with it, and falls in love with Elsie, whose story he vaguely thinks he knows. But when Elsie's actual past is revealed to him, Theo cannot face it as he is not awareness of the depravity of poverty, of the slums and their social implications, the awkward steps to success. A clean very presentable copy.…