THE OUTSIDER. Suntup Artist Edition

Irvine: Suntup Press, 2022. First edition thus. hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with slipcase.. Jeff Echevarria. One of 750 finely produced copies with illustrations by Jeff Echevarria and signed by him with six full-page color illustrations. Also included is a note by S. E. Hinton that appeared in the 50th anniversary edition, as well as 21 pages of bonus material from Hinton's archive. This edition of Hinton's young adult novel, written some 60 years ago, has a wrap-a-round dust jacket and "a smyth sewn full cloth binding with two-hits foil blocking on the cover. Endsheets are embossed rainbow paper. Housed in a slipcase covered in 100% (truncated) cotton cloth with an aqueous acrylic coating. Publisher's bookmark present signed by the illustrator. Originally published in 1967 by Viking Press. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs (Inventory #: 15467)