Clam Shell by Settle Mary Lee (16 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. Tight and clean in Jacket with original price. Jacket has slight edge wear.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. first thus. NY: Scribner 1987 8vo 256pp continuation of The Love Eaters. Light edge wear, light toning to pages. See photos clph.

First Edition. Very Good to Near Fine condition. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book has light rub of edges of cover, slight fading of cover, fading of edges of endpaper, light yellowing of pages, foxing of foredges, dust jacket has 1" tear bottom front panel, rub of spine and edges of panels, fading of spine and panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Cover and spine are good with only mild shelf/rub wear. No dog-eared corners. Solid Binding. All pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- Searching for an escape from mediocrity, the young heroine of The Clam Shell leaves her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, and enters a Southern women's college. She is not destined for the safe path, however; her brutal awakening comes in the form of a violent sexual assault through which she ultimately discovers her own hidden strength. Set in 1936, The Clam Shell continues the mesmerizing story Settle began in "The Love Eaters.". . .

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Spine is faded and soiled. Bottom of page block has mild soil. Tight copy. Record # 2233703.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Bodley Head, London, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE dust-jacket. Spine is sunned. Adhesive residue from a price sticker on the front free end paper. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

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First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket with light soiling on white background.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: The Bodley Head, 1971. First UK Edition. Octavo (20.3 cm); 256pp. Publisher's pink and white dust jacket intact with price (£2.00). Boards full bound in blue paper with gilt stamping on spine. Dust jacket slightly sunned and lightly soiled; has small tears, creases, and rubbing at all margins and spine ends. Price sticker residue and small line of black marking on front cover. Verso has tape at top margin and spine ends from previous owner's repair. Board margins show shelf wear; corners bumped and spine ends rubbed. Top edge foxed. Back pasted endsheet has pencil markings in the corner. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Bookplate signed by Mary Lee Settle loosely laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition/First Printing. Nice signed copy, faint foxing to page edges. Jacket is nicked at extremities with some loss at head of spine, and at top tips. Oddly, there appear to be two horizontal marker strokes, about 3/4 inches each, to jacket spine, near the e of Lee and S of Settle. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first U.S. edition. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($6.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Faint foxing on side edge of an otherwise fine copy. Jacket has touch of fading at spine, as well as a spot of rubbing on front panel (as pictured). Fiction-S.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Original binding. SIGNED by Settle on the half-title page. This is a tight, fine book in a bright slightly spine sunned near fine DJ. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.".