The Clam Shell [Signed and inscribed]

New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First US Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 255,[1]pp. Publisher's price-clipped illustrated dust jacket with author photo to back panel. Boards quarter bound in olive cloth and black paper. Blue endsheets. Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed with spine sunned and margins toned. Spine ends and joint ends bumped. Verso joints and spine toned. Board corners and spine ends bumped with minor bumping to margins. Book block pulling away from top of spine and binding cocked but firm. Endsheets faded at margins but pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket.

Signed and inscribed by Settle at half title page. The novel "describes girlhood stripped to its nerves, the ridiculous and agonizing stages by which an independent spirit grows truly taller than its mentors.