The Outsiders
New York: The Viking Press, 1967.
First edition, first printing. 188 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in red on spine, red topstain. Near Fine with slight splaying to boards and bumping to corners, ownership signature to front free endpaper. In a Very Good+ dust jacket, clipped at lower corner of front flap but price at upper corner intact, with light rubbing, toning, and edgewear. Faint dampstaining at head and tail of spine panel, and 2 small tape repairs to verso at upper flap fold ends.
The first edition of S.E. Hinton's controversial novel about gang violence, written and published when she was a teenager. The inspiration for the 1983 Francis Ford Coppola film with numerous soon-to-be-famous Brat Pack actors including Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, and Patrick Swayze.
Price: $4,200