THE OUTSIDER by Wilson, Colin - 1956

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. (vi) 288 pp. Quarter-bound in blue cloth on blue boards; lettered in white on the spine. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges and some fading on the spine; no interior markings. When this was first released in England it became a huge hit, an incredible bestseller. People even turned it into a game they played at parties, trying to figure out whether or not they were Outsiders. And it was called an intellectual thriller by Time Magazine. The Chapters are: The Country of the Blind; World Without Values; The Romantic Outsider; The Attempt to Gain Control; The Pain Threshold; The Question of Identity; The Great Synthesis; The Outsider as Visionary; and Breaking the Circuit; followed by a Postscript.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Only. 8vo. Author's First Book.