THE OUTSIDER


First Published 1961 by Collins

First edition. Click to enlarge (File size=31KB)
Collins 1961 First Edition
illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam

Set in Punchbowl Farm, Surrey. The young characters from both series join forces. to look after the farm in the older Thorntons' absence.

First edition: dark blue boards, silver blocking; 135x200mm; 256pp; map ('version 2' with pipeline) by Charles Green; title page vignette and 15 line illustrations.
Dustwrapper in full colour by Whittam, advertising No Going Back on rear; cover price 12s 6d.


Other Editions:

Children's Book Club 1962:
Hardback. red boards, black lettering, 256pp; map and all the original illustrations.
Dustwrapper by Leslie Wood.
Children's Book Club edition
Children's Book Club dustwrapper

Armada edition
Armada cover
Armada 1969:
Paperback edition; 160pp; map, (version 1, not cred); 14 illustrations by Whittam (penult missing); cover illustration by Mary Gernat; Armada number C271; cover price 2/6.

La Forja, Santillana 1962:
Spanish paperback edition as el desplazado.
110x185mm; 254pp; no illustrations; translation by Pilar Franco; cover not credited seems to interpret the title as being related to the human experience rather than the subject matter of the book. The rear of the book has an odd picture of the author, an early one, which looks as though she's on horseback, screaming.
Spanish paperback cover. Click to enlarge
Cover of the Spanish paperback
Santillana 1962


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Last updated August 2003