Rogue Angels - Peter Cave

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 25225

LONDON, UK

NEW EDITION MARCH 1975 • 3RD PRINTING

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - SUEDEHEADS ARE CLASHING WITH ROGUE ANGELS

The Suedeheads have taken to buying up old American cars and riding them tooled-up and mob-handed. To the English Hell's Angels, that means war.

Against the background of a murderous personal vendetta, the conflict intensifies. Death comes to some in the mid-day heat of open battle. To others it comes in the night and alone.

Then the Glasgow Angels decide to move South. And, all Hell breaks loose!!

The Cellar Boys - Howard Baker

They lived for kicks - maniacal tearaways who though they could beat the law

FIVE STAR 

1ST PRINTING 1973

MANCHESTER, UK

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS 'ESPRESSO JUNGLE' 1959

& 'THE CELLAR BOYS' 1965

THE CELLAR BOYS

FATSO...crack driver, expert at a quick getaway

SMILER...sadist and flick-knife artist

MARTY...confirmed 'purper', always at war with everyone

CHI-ANN...maniac-depressive tearaway, the leader

MISTER BIG...the faceless one whom nobody knew but whose orders were carried out without question

They thought they were invincible...until one night they picked on Ricky Castain...

The Cellar Boys - Howard Baker

THEY LIVED FOR KICKS - MANIACAL TEARAWAYS WHO THOUGHT THEY COULD BEAT THE LAW

CONSUL BOOKS 1367

1ST PRINTING 1965

LONDON, UK

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS 'ESPRESSO JUNGLE' BY FLEETWAY PUBLICATIONS 1959 AS PART OF THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 435

FATSO...crack driver, expert at a quick getaway

SMILER...sadist and flick-knife artist

MARTY...confirmed 'purper', always at war with everyone

CHI-ANN...maniac-depressive tearaway, the leader

MISTER BIG...the faceless one whom nobody knew but whose orders were carried out without question

They thought they were invincible...until one night they picked on Ricky Castain...

Jerry Cotton - Nichts Ist Spannender

ISSUE 2609

EUROPE 2007

Issued in 11 European countries, this detective magazine has been going since the 1940s and from what I have seen of them, they use a photograph from various films for the cover that has nothing to do with the actual story inside and are all non-English language publications. This issue as you can see has "The Warriors" on the cover and that is why it's here, the story isn't JD but the cover is. These are probably more of interest to collectors of movie related books and digests, especially the early issues as the photo covers are pretty cool.

Reefer Boy - Hal Ellson

A SHOCKING NOVEL OF TEEN-AGE DOPE ADDICTS

PEDIGREE BOOKS 

FIRST PRINTING 1955 

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE UK BY NEVILLE SPEARMAN 1955

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE USA AS THE GOLDEN SPIKE

From the reeking slums of a big city, from the twilight world of escape-hungry "junkies", comes this striking and powerful novel of tormented adolescents-neglected by society, victimised by ruthless dope-pedlars.

Published in cheap edition here for the first time its purpose is to focus attention upon a problem which is by no means confined to the big cities of the United States with which the book is concerned. It is now common knowledge that drug addiction is a widespread and rapidly growing evil in this country and the publishers believe that this factual account of its effects upon teenagers can serve as a timely warning and a deterrent.

The material of this book is sensational, but this is not a sensational novel. It is based on fact-the shameful, inescapable fact that society takes no responsibility for these lost and bitter children.

The author Hal Ellson, is a recreational therapist who comes into daily contact with the under-privileged and emotionally disturbed teenagers about whom he writes. More than two years of interviewing and several hundred pages of notes went into the preparation of the background of Reefer Boy. Mr. Ellson is also the author of Duke and Tomboy, whose total sales in America now top 3,000,000 copies.

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous

'No one can read this book without crying for the young who find the world we have built too much to bear.' - Sunday Mirror

CORGI BOOKS 0 552 09332 7

2ND PRINTING 1974 (1973)

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY EYRE METHUEN 1972

YOU CAN'T ASK ALICE ANYTHING ANYMORE.

BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING-READ HER DIARY. STRONG, PAINFULLY HONEST, CANDID. THE ACTUAL STORY OF A DESPERATE GIRL ON DRUGS AND ON THE RUN WHO ALMOST MADE IT.

"Go Ask Alice is a very frightening book-not because it is a story of how drugs can kill, but because it offers an insight, of remarkable naive force, into a style of life...because it is one person's story...because Alice was a born writer, with a natural gift of language and observation. It's not an enjoyable book but it is short and powerful-and dangerous-not for children."

Ray Gosling, The Times

"It shows the complexity of modern life, the awful pressures which plague even the 15-year-old who needs all her energies to cope with growing, it shows the realities of the much-discussed generation gap, the isolation of one who wanders off the track and, alone, finds it impossible to fight her way back."

The Guardian

"Everyone who reads it must ask that most agonising of all questions: 'Can it be that love is not enough?'"

Sunday Mirror

Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs of California

PENGUIN BOOKS 2801

1ST PRINTING 1967

LONDON, UK

COVER PHOTO BY CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

They shoot the hillcrest like a burst of dirty thunder, shoulder-length hair streaming from Cro-magnon faces, swastikas jangling, filthy death's-head-emblazoned denims cracking in the wind-the Hell's Angels are out on a run, and America's West Coast cowers in loathing...

Gang rape, pillage, murder...recent press reports of the Angels read like a plot-synopsis of a thriller-writer's worst dreams. Hunter Thompson found the reality different-but still disturbing. Here, with Rabelasian gusto, he tells of his experiences with Little Jesus, Charger Charlie the Child Molester, Big Frank ('You don't really jerk the eyeball, you just sorta spring it so it pops outa the socket') and a host of others. This is the inner truth of a phenomenon which relegates our Rockers to the nursery.

Together Brothers - Jim Robinson

Some mother killed their main man MR. KOOL and all at once they're Together Brothers

AWARD BOOKS 426

1ST PRINTING 1974

NEW YORK, USA

MOVIE TIE-IN

A WANTON MURDER

A MUTILATED BODY

A STALKING KILLER

"Mr. Kool? Why hit him?" the cop asked.

"Why?" His partner shrugged. "Because he was a black cop in a jungle...he just got too close to the animals."

Mr. Kool may have been the "fuzz"-"no better than any other jive-ass cop"-to most of the inhabitants of the ghetto. But to H.J., A.P., Monk, Gri'Gri' and Mau Mau he was a friend, a man who tried to understand young blacks and their problems. His death at the hands of a vengeful ex-con plunged the gang into a chilling manhunt-a race against time and terror in which five black kids pit their street know-how and motherwit against the steel cunning of a crazed killer...

Post-Prison Writings And Speeches - Eldridge Cleaver

PANTHER BOOKS 586 03555 9

SECOND PRINTING 1972 (1971)

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1969

COVER ART BY PAUL MAY

'It may be that not only in America but elsewhere in the world the lines of a new and terrible war are being traced - a racial war in which there will be a holocaust of innocents. At least, after reading Cleaver, we cannot say we do not know what the struggle is about.'

Stuart Hood SPECTATOR

'An essential addendum to Soul On Ice...this new book contains as powerfully seductive a prose as any being written now anywhere in the world...the results are piercing, brilliantly oratorical, poisonously funny, and quotable until the cows come home.'

Clive James NEW SOCIETY

'I plan to be around for quite a while'

Eldridge Cleaver

Sticking It To The Man! - Iain McIntyre

Pop, Protest and Black Fiction Of The Counterculture, 1964-75

LEDA TAPE ORGANISATION 978 1922 078 04 9

FIRST PRINTING AUGUST 2012

USA

ROCKING REVOLUTIONARY READS!

Over 120 book covers and reviews of novels drawing on the social and political upheaval of the counterculture era.

Utopia, dystopia and cultural myopia!

Rock and roll, dope, and frugging in the streets!

Blaxploitation, Sexploitation, Youthsploitation!

Bikers, hippies and Black Panthers!

(All photographs are in Black and White)

Yardie - Victor Headley

gang war hits London - yardie style!

PAN BOOKS 0 330 33042 X

1ST PRINTING 1993

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE X-PRESS LIMITED 1992

At Heathrow Airport's busy immigration desk, a newly-arrived Jamaican strolls through with a kilo of top-grade cocaine strapped to his body. And keeps on walking...

By the time the syndicate get to hear about the missing consignment, D is in business-for himself-as the Front Line's newest don.

But D's treachery will never be forgotten-or forgiven. The message filters down from the Yardie crime lords to their soldiers on the streets:

Find D. Find the merchandise. And make him pay for his sins...

'A book which everyone should read, and soon'

THE VOICE

'Who said you need a review in the quality Sundays to have a hit?'

CITY LIMITS

'The black Godfather...quite simply. Headley knows what time it is'

THE JOURNAL

'It's the ruffest, the tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'

CARIBBEAN TIMES

Signal Thirty-Two - Mackinlay Kantor

Mackinlay Kantor's Famous, High-Voltage Novel Of A Cop Whose Beat Is The Roughest District In The U.S.A. - Spanish Harlem!

BANTAM BOOKS A2029

NEW BANTAM EDITION FEBRUARY 1960 - 2ND PRINTING

(1ST BANTAM PRINTING FEBRUARY 1952)

NEW YORK, USA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE SEPTEMBER 1950

ALSO PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY DOLLAR BOOK CLUB JANUARY 1951

NEW YORK

is the biggest city in the world and the toughest. The men on its police force are all kinds, from those who collect a percentage from the prostitutes and bookies, to the ones who deliver babies in squad cars and pull suicides off the bridges.

SIGNAL THIRTY-TWO

is the story of one man who tried hard to be a good cop in the squalid, stinking slums of New York's Spanish Harlem, where children offer themselves for sale for money to buy heroin, and the switch knife and the zip gun are the toys a boy grows up with.

SWIFT PACED AND STACCATO

REAL AS A SIREN'S SCREAM

-CLEVELAND NEWS

A Sweet Sweet Summer - Jane Gaskell

SPHERE BOOKS 37850

1ST PRINTING 1971

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HODDER & STOUGHTON 1969

The public execution of Ringo Starr

is the first demonstration of power by the aliens whose spacecraft hangs over Britain and seals off the country from the outside world. Out of the chaos the aliens have created emerges a new social order, dominated by mob rule drug farms, and gang warfare.

The hero is a teenage ponce, running a house which is part brothel and part headquarters for a group of Neo Nazi thugs. He operates in a derelict pop world, a savage parody of the permissive society, in which people make love and carve each other up with equal carelessness.

Protest : The Beat Generation And The Angry Young Men - Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg

Rebels without a cause, they are shocked by nothing - defying society, conventions, the world, the 'beatniks' and the 'angries' speak their minds

PANTHER BOOKS 1075

1ST PRINTING JUNE 1960

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SOUVENIR PRESS 1959

The 'beatniks' and the 'angry young men' are considered the logical spokesmen for our age.

Out of its chaos, they have fashioned some of the most brilliantly dynamic literature of our time.

Rebels without a cause...

*JACK KEROUAC

*COLIN WILSON

*NORMAN MAILER

*JOHN OSBORNE

*JOHN BRAINE

*CLELLON HOLMES

*JOHN WAIN

*KINGSLEY AMIS

Black Rice - Katharine Sim

THE OPIUM TRADE IN MODERN MALAYA

a story of the operators who make vast profits from human misery and vice

ACE BOOKS H512

1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HODDER & STOUGHTON 1959

It is hard to imagine her rendering of the Malayan scene being bettered: the colouring is gorgeous without being lurid, the canvas packed with detail but never overcrowded.

-Times Literary Supplement

A very fine book...The central story tells of an attempt to smuggle large quantities of opium but readers will keep and remember this book because of its haunting description of Malayan life.

-Time and Tide

Hell's Angels - Jan Hudson

The full story of America's motorcycle 'Wild Ones'

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY (NEL) FOUR SQUARE 2092

2ND PRINTING NOVEMBER 1967

(1ST printing September 1967)

LONDON, UK

They live on ton-up motorcycles-screaming across the roads of America, leaving behind a trail of drunken brawls, sexual assaults, destruction and terror.

They are Hell's Angels: a breed of wild young men who dress like pirates and wear Nazi emblems.

They defy law and order, live by their own violent code and dice with death every day.

Jan Hudson knows the Angels. He's mixed with them and their girls and heard their views on life, sex, violence-and, most important of all, motorcycles. His book is a startling inside picture of the most amazing rebels of the sixties.

Monkey Off My Back - Jack Brown

An ex-convict and drug addict relates his discovery of personal freedom

LAKELAND BOOKS 230

1ST PRINTING 1972

LONDON, UK

The former 'con man' was always finding the easy way to make money for his expensive drug habit...yet the trail of shady tricks and crime always led Jack to the same place - stone walls, iron bars and guards.

Having served more than seventeen years in prison Jack Brown tells an almost incredible story - beatings, fights, riots, murders, immorality of every sort. He talks about people he met: the Birdman of Alcatraz - Machine-gun Kelly - Al Capone and other legendary figures of the underworld.

Most of Jack's life has been spent in various institutions: attempts to cure his criminal habits and his drug addiction failed repeatedly. But outside prison walls waited his devoted wife and family who prayed and encouraged Jack to take God seriously.

There is no 'happy ever after' routine at the end of his story - just the miracle that God changed the depraved drug addict convict, gave Jack the determination that Jesus shall control his life - and he can't keep it a secret!

*Apparently Jack Brown is the person that Johnny Cash wrote Cocaine Blues about.

R.I.P. Benji "Yellow Benji" Melendez 1952-2017

Yellow Benji of The Ghetto Brothers

I know this blog is normally a book blog but after hearing the sad news today of the death of Benji "Yellow Benji" Melendez of the Ghetto Brothers, I though I'd post this, after all these JD books we all collect are pretty much all about gang members like him.  "Yellow Benji" was best known for brokering the gang truce in the Bronx and Harlem in 1971, when he was President of the Ghetto Brothers and lead guitarist of the Ghetto Brothers band. He was also in the 2015 documentary Rubble Kings. If you haven't seen the documentary or heard the album the Ghetto Brothers released, I urge you to do so, you really are missing out.

R.I.P Benji

Go, Man, Go! - Edward De Roo

Highway Thrills, Race Car Kicks...and Love-Hungry Chicks!

Lawless Hot-Rodders! A Jungle on Wheels...

DIGIT BOOKS R357

1ST PRINTING • NO DATE

LONDON, UK

Faster! Faster! Faster!

It's real cool, man. When you're a kid in a hot-rod you just wanta GO! And there ain't nothin' or nobody gonna stop you, 'cause behind that wheel you're the most.

And if you're in with the gang-you ain't never gonna chicken out on 'em, 'cause you can't, you'd die first!

Young - Miriam Colwell

THE LOW-DOWN ON TWO WILD TEENAGE GIRLS IN SEARCH OF EXPERIENCE

ACE BOOKS (UK) H268

1ST PRINTING 1959

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WEIDENFELD AND NICHOLSON 1955

COVER ART BY JOHN VERNON

The American jungle of wolf-whistles and stalking Cadillacs through which the narrator, a wise-cracking girl in her teens, moves like a willing prey.

-MANCHESTER GUARDIAN

A graphic and uncensored account of how two adolescent American girls saunter through a summer's day, winding up with the spectacle of sudden death at a roadside beer-parlour.

-DAILY MAIL

A day in the life of two American girls in their late teens...One of them by British standards a juvenile delinquent; smart, wisecracking, knowing beyond her years, she unfolds a picture of a society with only the haziest ideas of manners and morals.

-THE TIMES

Bethnal Green - Michael Fisher

Now filmed as...

A PLACE TO GO

STARRING RITA TUSHINGHAM, MIKE SARNE, BERNARD LEE

A RELPH-DEARDEN PRODUCTION

FOR BRITISH LION-BRYANSTON RELEASE THROUGH B.L.C.

PAN BOOKS X230

1ST PRINTING 1963

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CASSELL & CO 1961

MOVIE TIE-IN

BETHNAL GREEN

...a brawling, dingy, decaying mass of street-markets and pubs, damp old houses, reeking gasometers and littered bomb-sites.

Ricky Flint knew no other world. Yet he craved to burst out, to win a better life somewhere for himself and his girl Catherine, an amoral slut, but fired by her own fierce pride...

How Ricky met his one violent chance is told with biting authenticity.

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A novel of the near future by one of the most talented and imaginative writers of today

PAN BOOKS X 321

1st PRINTING 1964

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1962

'HORRORSHOW'

-that's the adjective which Alex, the delinquent teenage villain of the piece would use to describe A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

You, we are sure, will find it one of the most unusual and unforgettable novels you have read. The extreme in wickedness, social satire, abundant racy humour-all are here in this story of London in the none-too-distant future, a city terrorized at night by prowling toughs, where the powers-that-ought-to-be struggle to buy peace and order through the skills of brainwashing psychiatrists!

Eff Off - Sandy Hutson

PAN BOOKS 0 330 02613 5

1ST PRINTING 1971

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ARLINGTON BOOKS 1969

An explosive, irreverent and brilliantly-characterized first novel by Sandy Hutson

eff off

Describes in sizzling style the problems of a young teacher thrust into the chaotic world of a 'special school' for violent and disturbed children.

Sends TO SIR, WITH LOVE back to the kindergarten! - 'The dialogue scenes are splendidly handled; noisy, witty and obscene.'

NEW STATESMAN

eff off

'Don't do any such thing. Read it-for its fierce pity of the neglected and maladjusted child.'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Jury Is Still Out - Irwin D. Davidson and Richard Gehman

"This is a horrifying book, strongly recommended to all who are concerned about crime in young people." -John O'London's

PANTHER BOOKS 1158

1ST PRINTING JANUARY 1961

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PETER DAVIES LTD 1959

A NATION WAS SHOCKED...

and the reader will be shocked by this frightening account of a brutal killing and the sensational murder trial that followed it. The American Press gave detailed-often hysterical-coverage to the trial; now the Judge himself gives the complete story. It is one that contains a sobering thought for all of us.

"This book cannot merely be shrugged off with 'It would not happen here'. Reading it, you get an uneasy feeling that it could."

-Birmingham Mail

The Power Gods - Bud Clifton

A gang of young punks with a mania for speed and sex

PYRAMID BOOKS G410

1ST PRINTING MAY 1959

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY LOU MARCHETTI

GANG GIRL

She had never been in a convertible before, let alone driven one. It was a big yellow Buick and racing it up to seventy-five on the open Nevada roads excited her so much she began to giggle. She was eighteen. And she had stolen the car.

She slowed down. She didn't want some cop to pick her up for speeding. She'd just pulled a job-a big one-and she had to get back to the boys. They didn't know it, but those kids with their black leather jackets and goggles and motorcycles were sitting ducks. They might think they were doing her a favor, letting her hang around, loving her up. But Bella had other ideas. Big-time ideas. And this gang of speed-mad, sex-mad young punks was due for a shattering surprise.

Kill Me A Priest - John Farrimond

CORGI BOOKS GN7555

1ST PRINTING 1966

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY GEORGE G. HARRAP 1965

KILL ME A PRIEST, BENNY BUCKEL!

Maxie was tough. Maxie was big-and cunning-and Maxie's gang was the best, the strongest, and the the most vicious on the street.

Benny didn't care what he did to get into Maxie's mob-anything at all, and he waited for Maxie-Maxie who was God-to decide.

'You want to join me, Benny? You want to get in the Mob? So what I want is for you to rub out the priest. Go kill me a priest, Benny Buckel.'

Violent Sunday - James A. Brown

THE DRINKING DENS AND DANCE HALLS OF JOHANNESBURG

ACE BOOKS H349

1ST PRINTING 1960

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ROBERT HALE 1956

A compelling and sensitive portrait of life in the Negro shanty towns ringing Johannesburg

-DAILY SKETCH

Distressful, fiercely impressive novel...if his story is painful, it is so burningly and compassionately alive, so sure in characterisation, so unflinching in its posing of a bitter problem, that it demands to be read

-VANITY FAIR

Often it is brutal and sordid in a manner which cannot be paralleled in Europe, but it also offers poetry and humour

-TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The tragedy of David, who envied the white man's wealth and sought to achieve parity by crime, is played out against an inclusive background of squalor and disillusionment

-BIRMINGHAM MAIL

Monkey On My Back - Wenzell Brown

Teen-Agers Caught In The Dope Racket

WDL BOOKS 275

1ST PRINTING FEBRUARY 1958

LONDON, UK

Here are the true and terrifying experiences of "junkies" who started "blasting" for thrills and couldn't "kick" the habit - and the crimes they committed to get "the monkey off their backs." Told by a man who lived with them intimately, and who spares no one in exposing the menace of teen-age drug addiction, it is a social document of the highest importance.

The Pack - Brian Black

When speed turned the gang on, not even Jenny could make them put the brakes on

SOFTCOVER LIBRARY S60

1ST PRINTING 1969

LONDON, UK

FULLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT

The gang wore black leather jackets and called themselves The Psychos. They rode their roaring motorcycles and loved their women hard and fast. Jenny loved being loved. By Chuck Ryan, by big Red Ahearn, by the gang who made her their queen. By sixteen, Jenny had been loved more than most adults are in a lifetime. But a lifetime, Jenny discovered, while racing through hers in a few fast months, was barely long enough to give one man what no girl could give while being gang-loved....

A sizzling new novel about today's crazy motorcycle packs.

Shake Him Till He Rattles - Malcolm Braly

Drifting between a very cool girl and a very warm one...A funky, nighttime love story so vivid you can taste it, hear it, feel it...

GOLD MEDAL 695

1ST PRINTING 1964

LONDON, UK

Here is Braly's second novel. It is laid in San Francisco by night, where people, narcotics and jazz flow together and melt into the smoky blue world of North Beach by night...

"Braly has the true attributes of the novelist: he thinks honestly about people, and writes about them with an unstressed absolute realism which exposes most of the toughly 'realistic' writers as naive romantics."

-Anthony Boucher - New York Sunday Times

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Explosive epic of the Beat Generation

PAN BOOKS X84

1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANDRE DEUTSCH 1958

This is the odyssey of the Beat Generation, the frenetic young men and their women racing furiously across America to wherever life is fastest, where girls are hottest, parties wildest, 'bop' is to be heard, marijuana to be smoked, or a road to be taken at ninety plus-a neuritic hunger for Sensation and Experience.

'Crazy-mixed-up novel about frustrated youth getting nowhere fast'

-Manchester Evening News

Hashish - Henry De Monfreid

PENGUIN BOOKS 527

1ST PRINTING 1949

FIRST PUBLISHED IN FRANCE AS 'LA CROISIERE DU HACHICH'

THIS TRANSLATION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1935