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

The Leather Boys - Eliot George

They didn't have to look for trouble- they made it

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 813

1ST PRINTING 1963

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANTHONY BLOND 1961

MOVIE TIE-IN

The boys on the bikes.

The boys who do a ton on the by-pass.

Aimless, lawless, sometimes cowardly and vain, they spend a packet on their clothes and hair-styles.

Working-class boys with big wages, and nothing much to do with their money.

This is the story of two of them, Dick and Reggie.

Reggie was the married one-he was only seventeen when he got tied up and just didn't know what it was all about. He left his wife and went to stay with Dick, and the relationship that developed between them was just too hot to handle.

This is a book with a vicious kick to it. Here are the problems of delinquent youth which growl and grumble under the facade of our society, threatening to blow it sky-high. You have read about these boys in the newspapers; this book takes you right there with them; under their leather jackets-under their skins.

Wheelie! - Stuart Hall

Bikies on a rampage of sex, sin & destruction

SCRIPTS 14

1ST PRINTING 1973

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

"What do you chicks want?" demanded Onley.

"What do you think?" asked Jane, looking pointedly at Holmes' groin, than across at the joint Tait was smoking. "a little bit of fun and maybe some grass?" "I haven't got much left!" snapped Tait, not looking at the scared Sondra standing near him. "So you can forget about that for a start!"

"Now there's no need to be like that," soothed Jane. "Tell you what! You take little Sondra there and have a little sleep with her in one of the rooms upstairs, and maybe you'll think otherwise later on." Tait swung his eyes slowly towards Sondra, noting her short-cut mousy-coloured hair, and the attractiveness of the young girl. "Is she old enough?" he asked quietly.

"They're never too young," grinned Frances, moving closer to Onley. "They've all got to learn some day." "You mean she's a virgin?" asked Tait, interest in his eyes. "Well, she's never had a man," said Jane cryptically, then looked at Holmes. "Now, big boy, how about you and me?"

Skinhead - Richard Allen

The savage story of Britain's newest teenage cult of violence

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 2758

1ST PRINTING JULY 1970

LONDON, UK

AGGRO - That's what Joe Hawkins and his mates were looking for, with their shaven heads, big boots and braces.

Football matches, pub brawls, open-air pop concerts, hippies and Hell's Angels all gave them chances to vent their sadistic violence.

SKINHEAD is a story straight from todays's headlines - portraying with horrifying vividness all the terror and brutality that has become the trademark of these vicious teenage malcontents.

The Day Of The Sardine - Sid Chaplin

'A NOVEL WHICH NOBODY SHOULD MISS' - SUNDAY TIMES

PANTHER BOOKS 1895

1ST PRINTING AUGUST 1965

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE 1961

Arthur thinks most people live like sardines and are easily caught. But at sixteen he doesn't want to be packed head to tail, tail to head, into a tin coffin. He wants to be 'Somebody'. He wants to get away from home where his mother has taken up with the lodger, to dress how he wants, to do as he wishes. But being 'Somebody' for Arthur means joining a gang, being a bum, and an adulterer, and eventually, involvement in a murder.

'A FINE FULL-BLOODED NOVEL...RICH, VIVID'

-Sunday Telegraph

The Dope Den - Fenton Robins

Dynamic Long Novel of Mystery in the East End

THE THRILLER

NO. 119 VOL. 4 MAY 16TH 1931

LONDON, UK

Dope! - L. C. Douthwaite

A SENSATIONAL BOOK LENGTH MYSTERY NOVEL

THE THRILLER MAGAZINE 

NO.66 VOL.2 - MAY 10TH 1930

LONDON, UK

Nobody's Brother - C. F. Griffin

HE CRIED OUT IN ANGUISH FOR LOVE...BUT FOUND ONLY LONELINESS TO LIVE AND DIE WITH

PANTHER BOOKS 1544

1ST PRINTING JULY 1963

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY BARRIE & ROCKLIFFE 1960

If you're a slum kid you've got to be tough to survive, and Kenny is tough-on the surface. But his adolescence is a desperate struggle against a growing physical affliction. He suffers the nightmare of rejection, even by his 'hero' Dan, who has his own torments, a shameful obsession indulged only behind locked doors and with a girl friend who is a prostitute.

It is these dark secrets that lead to Kenny's final solitary act of horrifying destruction.

'DYNAMITE'

-N.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE

Without Shame - Kitty Hanson

A Story of New York's Girl Gangs

TOWER BOOKS

NO DATE

NEW YORK, USA

This looks like/is the third edition of Rebel in the Streets with a new title and new cover art, that is a little more 'sleaze'. The title page still says Rebel in the Streets and the first printing date of 1964. There is no 'blurb' on the back cover, just part of the front cover in black and white. The inside of the front cover has "Also known as Rebel in the Streets" printed on it. It seems to me that Tower Books just re-covered old stock with a new sleazy Lesbian themed cover, maybe to cash in on a "sleaze" trend, just get rid off the dead stock or to fool people into thinking that they were getting a brand new book, whatever their reasons were, it's another cool book for us to collect!

Rebels In The Streets - Kitty Hanson

The Story of New York's Girl Gangs

A dramatic expose of one of the most shocking and least publicized problems of the big cities

HORWITZ PUBLICATIONS PB 228

1ST PRINTING 1965

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Here is a strange and savage story of the Dagger Debs, a girl gang. Girls between childhood misbehavior and adult crime. Girls who get drunk on cheap wine and high marijuana. Girls who are profane, sexually promiscuous, aggressive and anti-social. Here is their gripping, shocking story. A piercing social document, it will hold you in profound fascination and utter disbelief.

Written by the author of award-winning "I Lived with a Teen-Gang," a series which appeared in the New York Daily News, REBELS IN THE STREETS is a compelling narrative, a truthful, moving portrait of the violence that courses through a great city, of those who try and stop it, and of the lives it touches and tears. It is a true story. Names and neighborhoods have been changed, but the people are real, the events are true.

The Blackboard Jungle - Evan Hunter

PANTHER BOOKS 685

2ND PRINTING 1957 (1ST PRINTING ALSO 1957)

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO 1955

COVER ART BY WEBB

MOVIE TIE-IN

West stood an inch shorter than Rick, squirming to release himself.

Rick's hand crushed tighter on the collar. He peered into the hateful eyes and spoke quietly. "Pronounce my name correctly, West."

The Class had grown terribly quiet.

"You want me to pronounce your name, sir?" West asked politely.

"You heard me."

"- you, Mr. Daffy..."

Rick's hand lashed out, slapping West squarely across the mouth....And then the knife snapped into view, sudden and terrifying. Long and shining, it caught the pale sunlight that slanted through the long schoolroom windows.

The Hours After Midnight - Joseph Hayes

A story of terror tuned to the relentless ticking of the clock

PAN BOOKS G458

1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANDRE DEUTSCH 1959

COVER ART BY "PEFF"

2.13 a.m....

'She's a pretty doll, Mr. Elgin.

You don't want nothing to happen to her...'

Then the phone went dead.

This new Joseph Hayes thriller races on with ever-mounting tension through minutes and hours of a single night. Flashing from parents tortured by fear for their daughter, to the girl herself alone with a devil obsessed, this is a novel of almost unbearable suspense.

Hot-Rod Babe - Tom Haunt

THEY LOVED FAST CARS- AND FAST FEMALES

GASLIGHT BOOKS 124

1ST PRINTING 1964

NEW YORK, USA

FORBIDDEN THRILLS.....

All Eric wanted was a car to tinker with, and a pretty bride to take care of his love life...But love and life got very complicated when he got tangled up with the Fender Busters, a gang of depraved delinquents addicted to hot-rods and hot women...Among the complications was Eric's relationship with girls like...Mae, who as the result of a frame-up set out to prove that she was truly a woman by accepting all male comers...Jayne, the sultry poor little rich girl with a yen for fast cars, violent men and pretty females, in equal proportions...Ruthie, the not-so-simple farm girl who was Jayne's avid partner in the twilight zone of sex...Lollie, who looked like a pert Junior miss but behaved like an insatiable nymph...and last but not least, lovely red-headed Ann Steel, who modelled panties and bras for a living, raced stock cars as a hobby...All these, and others, were the basic ingredients in a seething volcano of

.....FORBIDDEN LOVE

Thumb Tripping - Don Mitchell

A dazzling novel of the American Road in the tradition of Jack Kerouac and Easy Rider

PANTHER BOOKS 586 03687 3

1st PRINTING 1972

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1971

A Road Odyssey

California. Summer. A young man and a beautiful girl, hitch-hiking along the coast. A time of sunshine, sleeping out in a shared sleeping bag, making love in the open air. A time to get high - on scenery, on each other, on pot. But sometimes things get out of hand. A lift from a queer warlock becomes an excruciating experience of sexual embarrassment...a burly truck driver out of his skull on speed gets horny for the girl...a lift from a clean-living all-American family turns into a nightmare alcoholic binge...and that's not all. Not by a long way....

Funny and terrifying by turns, Don Mitchell's award-winning novel (soon to be a major movie) is one of the most entertaining and thoughtful pieces of writing to come out of the new youth scene.