Colin Wilson

The Outsider

Victor Gollancz, 1955. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 288pp. First edition, first impression. Unclipped dust jacket (21/- net) with heavy toning and rubbing to panels, sunning to spine panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper, toning to pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. ‘An inquiry into the nature of the sickness of mankind in the mid-twentieth century’. The landmark study of the outsider archetype in literary and psychological territory (and in the lives of William Blake, Kafka, HG Wells, et al.) by the British existentialist novelist and critic. A very good copy in mylar, scarce.

Price: $250.00