The Outsiders (50th Anniversary Edition, Signed)

HINTON, S.E. The Outsiders. New York: Viking/Penguin, 2017.

8vo. Original black hardcover. Pictorial dust jacket. 180 pp., with bonus material including never-before-seen photographs and letters from the author's archives. 50th Anniversary Edition; first edition thus. Signed by the author.

Arguably one of the greatest works of young adult fiction in the literature of the 20th century, Hinton's Outsiders rose to become a cultural phenomenon. The story of Ponyboy Curtis, his brothers, and the bitter divide between the working-class Greasers and the affluent Socs is, at its heart, a novel about the universal hunger for dignity and belonging. More than eight million copies sold over half a century is one measure of its reach; another is the continuing cultural relevant through which it continues to find new readers who recognise themselves in it. 

This 50th Anniversary Edition celebrates that legacy with a gathering of archival material — photographs, letters, and documents from Hinton's own papers — that illuminate both the book's origins and its remarkable afterlife.

Signed by the author in ink on the first blank page. A pristine copy, fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket.

Catalogue Number: HH000450