first edition
1967 · New York
by Hinton, S. E.
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. 188 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in red, red topstain. Near Fine with small stain to top of textblock, slight splaying to boards. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and edge wear, light sunning to the spine, foxing and several tiny stains to the blindside. 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 like Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, (truncated)