The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. "An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament."—Philip Toynbee.

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by Wilson, Colin

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1956
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by author on front free endpaper beneath former owner's name. 288pp. Brown cloth with silver and black lettering. First American edition, early printing or issue but not first. (No date on title page despite statement of "First printing" on copyright page. Deboss spot on back cover, book club edition?)… Read more about this item
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THE OUTSIDER
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by Wilson, Colin

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Used - A few slight bumps to boards, else fine in fine unclipped dj with very slight toning along spine. Lovely copy.
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1956
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. A few slight bumps to boards, else fine in fine unclipped dj with very slight toning along spine. Lovely copy.. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Author's seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. Philosophy and existentialism. 8vo, cloth. PLEASE NOTE that all our… Read more about this item
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The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

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The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

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1987
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by Wilson, Colin

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by Wilson, Colin

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by Wilson, Colin

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The Outsider

The Outsider

by WILSON, Colin

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1956
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Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company/Riverside Press, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Brown cloth with black and white lettering. Light toning on endpapers, near fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear, light rubbing, and a sunned spine. Inquiry into alienation of modern man.
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The Outsider

The Outsider

by Colin Wilson

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Paperback / softback. New. The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind 'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN
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The Outsider

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by Wilson, Colin

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1st
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1956
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Hardcover
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First American Edition; dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; 288 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 vo; 1.5 Pouinds.
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The Outsider

The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

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First American edition
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1956
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1956, First Printing of the First American edition, with the year on the title page. Hardcover, tan cloth. Soft bumping to the spine ends, otherwise a Fine, tight, clean copy in a Very Good dust jacket that also shows light shelfwear at the spine ends and corners.… Read more about this item
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The Outsider

by WILSON, Colin

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1956
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated "first printing" but with small "A" embossed on bottom of rear board possibly indicating a book club edition. 288pp. Brown cloth embossed in silver and black lettering. Spine slightly cocked, near fine in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with spine sunned and nicks on spine ends.
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by Wilson, Colin

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Stated First printing.
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1956
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. Stated First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Printing in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean blue boards with lighter blue cloth spine, white lettering on spine. A little fading to extreme edges of cloth spine. No fraying. Binding is tight and square, no… Read more about this item
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The Outsider

The Outsider

by WILSON, Colin

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1956
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Boston: Delta Book, 1956. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. 302pp. Trade paperback. With a new postscript by the author. Creasing on the panels and spine with edgewear, very good. The Seminal Book on the Alienation of Modern Man.
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The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

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First Edition
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1956
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Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1956. Octavo. Brown cloth boards stamped in black and white with black topstain. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket is very… Read more about this item
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The Outsider
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by Wilson, Colin

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First Edition
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1957
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Readers Union, Gollancz, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, Eleventh Printing (July 1957). Published by Victor Gollancz, 1956. Octavo. Blue boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Toning to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf… Read more about this item
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The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

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First Edition
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1956
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Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956 Hardcover, (Brown cloth with black & silver titles), 8vo. 288pp.Name neatly front endpaper. Tight. Nice d/j modestly rubbed along most edges, ( 4.00 price has not been clipped). Stated First Printing but lacking same date on title page is the second issue. V.Good+ in V.Good D/j in jacket protector.
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The Outsider (with 1956 on title page and all other points of the true first US edition)

by Wilson, Colin

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Used - Very Fine condition
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First American Edition
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1956
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Hardcover
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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Previous owner's name else Very Fine copy of the true First US printing, with all the points called for by Wilson's bibliographers. Specifically, the year "1956" is printed on the title page; the binding is brown cloth (lettered in black and silver on the spine and front cover); and there… Read more about this item
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The Outsider

by Wilson, Colin

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First Printing
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1956
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Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. 10mo; VG-/G; black, beige and gray spine with off-white text; first printing; exterior to dust jacket has slightly sunned spine; chipping to edges; otherwise exterior shows modest wear; cloth has only mild exterior wear; lightly bumped spine corners; straight, strong boards; text block edges have age toned lightly; tight binding; previous… Read more about this item
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