Rumble Fish

New York: Delacorte, (1975). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 179 pp. Original quarter blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($29.95) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, shelf and handling wear. Some light rubbing and handling wear to gloss with some trivial curling and wrinkling to spine ends, edges and corners. Light spine fade. Light general toning throughout, some spot foxing. Tear to front top panel edge, tape repaired. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Trivial shelf wear to edges with rubbing along the panels - particular to spine crown and foot. Foxing to page edges, particular to top text block. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“Rumble Fish is a 1975 novel for young adults by S. E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders. It was adapted to film and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983. Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. In 1988 she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens.”