The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

First edition

Price: $300.00
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Book desription: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First Edition, First Printing, with 1956 on title page, "First Printing September 1956" on copyright page, $4.00 on front dustjacket flap. Very clean unfaded brown cloth boards with crisp silver and black stamped lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean black top-stained page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 288 pgs. Clean unfaded dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Author's first book, which laments the human pre-occupation with "trivialities and endless pettinesses" which cloud over life's real significance. His writing displays an erudite grasp of some of the work and lives of world's greatest writers such as Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Blake and more. This book rose to critical acclaim throughout the world.

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