The Outsiders
New York: The Viking Press, 1967.
First edition, first printing. Signed by S. E. Hinton and warmly inscribed in the year of publication to a former owner on the front free endpaper, "To Ronnie Doshier - I hope you like my book! Best wishes, Susie Hinton 1967." Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in red. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, light rubbing to spine lettering, light crease to bottom corner of front free endpaper. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $3.95 intact at top corner of front flap though bottom corner clipped; light rubbing, vertical crease to the spine panel, wear at spine ends with some tearing to the foot. The first appearance of the classic teenage gang story, which was adapted into the Brat Pack-packed 1983 Francis Ford Coppola film. The author herself was still a teenager when it was published. Item #140940737
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