The Quarry
by Walker, Mildred (1905-1998)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VeryGood
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. Hardcover_boards. VeryGood. 5.5"x8.25" 339 pgs. BCE/BOMC Black boards w/gold letters on spine. Red faded painted top edge. POI inside front boards and ffep. Spine straight, binding tight, pages soft tone. Not x-library, no DJ. Moderate shelf and edge wear. In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father's house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. The Quarry invites readers to escape into private lives worth caring about-and to feel the national history that they could not escape. Originally published in 1947 and considered one of Mildred Walker's richest novels, The Quarry is introduced by Ripley Hugo, Walker's daughter. Hugo edited, with James Welch, The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography by Richard Hugo.
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- Seller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 14362
- Title
- The Quarry
- Author
- Walker, Mildred (1905-1998)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- Used - VeryGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1947
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- X-Library
- A former library book, generally containing library acquisition and ownership stamped markings, and other typical indications of...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...