Angels Camp - Ray Morrison

 Young Criminals - in a prison camp without Walls!

BANTAM BOOKS 794

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING JULY 1950

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY W. W. NORTON & Co 1949

COVER ART BY DENVER GILLEN

This savage novel may shock you - but you'll never forget it. Bantam Books Inc. believes its readers want to know the brutal truth about juvenile delinquents - and whether there is any hope for them.

ZUBIAT

. . . that was his name . . . this sixteen-year old son of a jailbird father and a no-good mother. No wonder he already had a shady past behind him - and nothing ahead of him but a terrible, blood-stained future.

Then he was sentenced to Camp Matthews - "Angels Camp." There he met a lot of young hoodlums, whose life-stories will shock you. But he also met Mr. Grozier, the counselor who really wanted to help.

Coul Grozier win his battle for Zubiat . . . against Zubiat himself?

"Boot-tough novel . . . skillfully done . . . should go a long way toward awakening the public to the truth about juvenile delinquency." - KING FEATURES SYNDICATE

Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

 The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

BALLANTINE BOOKS U7087

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PAPERBACK PRINTING NOVEMBER 1967

CALIFORNIA, Labor Day weekend ... Early, with the ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners, and castoff one-night pads....Little Jesus, The Gimp, Blind Bob, Terry the Tramp, Frenchy, Mouldy Marvin, Mother Miles, Dirty Ed, Charley the Child Molester, Crazy Cross, Puff Magoo and at least a hundred more....The menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway ... long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, armpits, chain whips, swastikas and stripped-down Harleys flashing at 90 miles an hour like a burst of dirty thunder ...

Hells's Angels

"Superb and Terrifying"

- Chicago Tribune

Blood Sport - Victor Cross

THIS IS A SHOCKING AND TERRIFYING NOVEL!
Five vicious kids mark a TV Super-Hero and his female companion for a nightmare of relentless, sensual savagery. 

AWARD BOOKS A204XK

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1966

FROM SUPER-HERO TO PIGEON IN ONE HIDEOUS NIGHT!

Jed Keelty was big stuff.

He was TV's "Gambling Gent" who always won - every fight, every girl, no matter what the opposing odds.

To millions of viewers, he was the epitome of super-strength, super-intelligence, super-courage.

Which made Jed Keelty and his beautiful fiancee all the more attractive as victims for "The Pigeon Game." The vicious invention of five warped young minds, the Pigeon Game was one contest Jed Keelty could not possibly win.

Stripped first of his romantic illusions about the girl he loved, Jed felt the night could hold no further horror for him...

But that was before he met Vint, the big blond muscle-boy who had marked Jed for himself. And Earl, the cowardly one, who hated him. Young Miguelito, who idolized him. And Juicer, the sinister one, who had plans for both Jed and his girl friend.

BUT MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL WAS HONEY, THE PONY-TAILED LITTLE SADIST WHO WOULD STOP AT NOTHING FOR THE TASTE OF JED'S BLOOD UPON HER LIPS BECAUSE IT DROVE HER INTO A FRENZIED PASSION THAT WAS, AT ONCE, BOTH DESPERATE AND DEADLY!

Bad Girl - Vina Delmar

ALL ABOUT THE KID FROM THE SLUMS WHO COULDN'T STAY GOOD

AVON BOOKS AT51

NEW YORK, USA

2ND PRINTING WITH NEW ARTWORK 1950'S

REPRINTS AVON 81 1946

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HARCOURT BRACE & CO 1926

Thrill-Crazed Kids

"His mouth was warm against hers. Her breasts crushed against him and swelled above the square-cut neck in the satin dress.

She knew she ought to sit up and pull the new blue dress with all its yards of braid down over her knees.

She knew she ought to...."

The Plough Boy - Tony Parker

AT THIS SPOT, IN 1953, A MURDER WAS COMMITTED. THIS IS THE TRUE STORY OF THAT MURDER AND THE TRIAL

ARROW BOOKS 104

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1969

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HUTCHINSON & Co 1965

At Clapham Common, on the evening of July 2nd, 1953, a murder was committed. Charged with stabbing to death a young boy in a gang-fight, Michael Davies stood trial at the Old Bailey and was sentenced to death. His appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeal and the House of Lords were dismissed. He spent in all 92 days in the condemned cell until he was reprieved by the Home Secretary who commuted his sentence to one of life imprisonment. Of this, he served seven years; now back in society, he is married and has settled down, leading a life of quiet respectability. But Davies maintains, and has always maintained, that he was innocent.

Tony Parker examines his claim, and how it came about that Michael Davies was found guilty.

The Beat Boys - John Clellon Holmes

AMERICA'S TEEN-AGE JUNGLE AND A SEARING 
STORY OF YOUTH IN SEARCH OF 'KICKS'

ACE BOOKS (UK) H262

LONDON, UK

2ND PRINTING NOVEMBER 1959

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE USA UNDER THE TITLE "GO"

Clellon Holmes is famous as the inventor of the Beat Generation, and The Beat Boys (originally entitled Go) is the book in which he introduced the phrase. It is a novel of youth in search of 'kicks'. Against a background of fast-drinking, drug addiction, wild jazz and all-night parties, the young people of today who make up the Beat Generation carry on their desperate search for a meaning to their lives - a search for identity, experience and love. The Beats may be found pursuing their restless quest in every big American city. Here is the world of the Beat Generation - a world of dingy backstairs, be-bop joints, night-long wanderings, meetings on street corners, hitch-hiking, and 'hip' bars.

Rumble At The Housing Project - Edward DeRoo

Old Terror In New Buildings

ACE BOOKS (US) D417

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1960

When they tore down that block of slums and built a clean new housing development, everybody said it would be the end of juvenile delinquency. But a kid like Larry Talos, who had to live there, could have told them different.

Larry was determined to keep out of the old gang, but the Spiders had other plans for him. To them the big apartments were just new 'turf' and Larry a natural recruit for a RUMBLE AT THE HOUSING PROJECT.

A new shocker of modern youth by the author of THE YOUNG WOLVES and THE FIRES OF YOUTH.

Die Hemmungslosen

DIE HEMMUNGSLOSEN

aka RAGGARE!

aka BLACKJACKETS

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 1871

AUSTRIA 1960 

"Juvenile delinquents in Sweden."

Starring Christina Schollin, Bill Magnusson and Hans Wahlgren

Directed by Olle Hellbom

Artfilm / Europa Film

Sweden

1959

Possessed By Speed aka Fartfeber

FARTFEBER

aka POSSESSED BY SPEED

DANISH CINEMA PROGRAMME

1954

"Gunnar and Ulf are teenagers living in Stockholm. Gunnar has no father and spends his spare time reading poems and racing cars."

Starring Arne Ragneborn, Sven-Axel Carlsson and Håkan Serner 

Directed by Egil Holmsen

Svensk Talfilm

Sweden 1953

 

Groupie Girl

GROUPIE GIRL

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 5747

AUSTRIA 1970

"I AM A GROUPIE!... a Rock-Group freak all the way - but what I collect ain't autographs! All I own is in this suitcase and all I want is a pad for tonight."

Starring Esme Johns,  Billy Boyle and Richard Shaw

Directed by Derek Ford

Salon Productions

UK 1970

 

Rumble

RUMBLE

1990's

UK

7 ISSUES

The seven issues of this British fanzine are essential reading for anyone into JD paperbacks or vintage paperbacks in general. A nice companion set to go alongside the Bad Seed fanzine.

Crime In The Streets

ENTFESSELTE JUGEND

AKA CRIME IN THE STREETS

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE NR. 3487

WEST GERMANY 1956

"How Can You Tell Them To Be Good When Their Girl Friends Like Them Better When They're Bad!"

Starring John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo and James Whitmore

Directed by Donald Siegel

Lindbrook Productions

U.S.A. 1956

All Or Nothing - Jason Brummell

HOUSE OF THE SUAVE

UK

FIRST PRINTING 2013

  

Dig the new Breed baby!

It's 1966. All or Nothing dips its beautifully shod toes (clad in Ravel basket-weaves) into a time when the Modernist high street jewels of '63 have gone underground and leaving the spotlight to the new and the brash, unaware of their parody of what once was so pure.

Whilst London is swinging and the country is getting World Cup fever. The Government are increasingly concerned with the very real possibility of a devalued Pound and the need for the impending re-payment of part of the Marshall plan loans to the US.

In the midst of the high street peacock revolution one of the original faces returns to these shores after three years and sees the changes of the past. Amidst the world of the Government and the ruling classes an interloper sees the changes that are coming.

Both are drawn to each other, first through grief, then mutual respect and ultimately a belief in remaining true to the Modernist desire to change the natural order of things. Naturally this doesn't go unnoticed.

The ripples from those beautiful shoes spread far and wide!

Bad Seed

BAD SEED 

KICKS BOOKS - NORTON RECORDS

NEW YORK, USA

1984-1985

Miriam Linna's celebration of Juvenile Delinquency in five wonderful issues of Bad Seed. A5 in size, these zines are as essential as the original books themselves.

Teenage Rebel

MODERNE JUGEND

aka TEENAGE REBEL

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE Nr. 3638

WEST GERMANY - NO DATE

"Every daughter should see "TEENAGE REBEL" every parent must!"

Starring  Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie & Mildred Natwick

Directed by Edmund Goulding

An adaptation of the play "A Roomful Of Roses" by Edith Sommer

Twentieth Century Fox

USA 1956