The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton - 2017

New York: Penguin Books, 2017. SIGNED. New. The 50th Anniversary Edition of the 1967 classic. Second printing with 10 number line ending with 2. Signed by S.E. Hinton on the publisher's bound-in page. Unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers with memorable quotes from the book. Dust jacket is unclipped ($20.00) and Fine. Contains never-seen-before photos, letters, and more. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.