QUARRY by WHITE, JANE - 1968

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. Second printing. Hardcover. Good +/good +.

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., c1969. First Am edition. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 252p.

Very Good. New York Graphic Society, 1962 hardcover. Text and cover are clean, binding is tight. Dust jacket is price-clipped, shows minor wear.

Boiler House Press, 2023. Trade Paperback. New. New. The most disturbing English novel of the 1960s, brought back to print after over 50 years. Todd, Randy, and Carter come across a boy while roaming the countryside near their town. They take him hostage in a cave in an abandoned quarry and consider what to do next. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding needed a plane crash and a desert island to bring out the capacity for violence and evil in his English schoolboys. Jane White, a mother and housewife living in Godalming when she wrote Quarry, needed only a chance encounter in fields not unlike those around her own development. Quarry is deeply unsettling. White's teenaged kidnappers ride bikes, worry about exams, have to be home in time for supper. Yet they also imprison and torture another boy with the cold calculating objectivity that Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." Written in cool, realistic prose, Quarry pulls the reader into a vortex of violence and inhumanity. It's a gripping and… Read More

Panther Book, 1968. Paperback. Acceptable. 1968. First Edition Thus. 222 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Pen marking to first page. Minor dog-eared corners. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges with splits to spine edges.

Paperback / softback. New.

Michael Joseph, 1967. Hardcover. Good. 1967. 2nd Impression. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harcourt, Brace & World. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable/Good. This is the 1967 White dust jacket edition. Spine slanted from age and shelf wear.