Reform School Girl - Felice Swados

A SHAMEFUL PATH LED HER THERE - SCARLET SECRETS KEPT HER THERE

 

Publisher: Diversey Romance Novel

Number: 1

Publishing Year: 1948

Printing: First

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist:

Hashish - Henry De Monfreid

PENGUIN BOOKS 527

1ST PRINTING 1949

FIRST PUBLISHED IN FRANCE AS 'LA CROISIERE DU HACHICH'

THIS TRANSLATION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1935

Burial Of The Fruit - David Dortort

A GRIPPING NOVEL OF YOUTH IN THE SLUMS

AVON BOOKS 183

AVON REPRINT EDITION 1948

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY ANN CANTOR

Conflict, Romance and Tragedy in the Slums of Brooklyn

What makes a boy or girl go bad? Why do some of the boys and girls of our city slums succumb so quickly to moral decay? In this tensely realistic novel of slums and gangs, of bitter love and violent death, much of the bitter truth is unashamedly revealed.

In these pages we live and die with young "Honey" Halpern through his hot-blooded, tragic career. From his neglected boyhood in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, he rose to be trigger-man for Lupo's mob of thugs and poolroom racketeers. When his best friend was killed, Honey only lived for revenge-until a new passion entered his life. Beautiful Renee was, like himself, a slum product, a devil-may-care girl pushed around by life. It may be that he shouldn't have loved her, body and soul, the way he did. But like all men, Honey had a good side too, and this new love proved it even to himself.

In this arresting novel David Dortort has given us a searing picture of the conflict of love and evil-of passion and criminal violence-in the mind and heart of one young man. When you have read BURIAL OF THE FRUIT, you will probably say, as the noted journalist Gerald W. Johnson said, that it is truly "A powerful and beautiful piece of work."

Juvenile Delinquency And The Law - A. E. Jones

PELICAN BOOKS A 158

FIRST PRINTING 1945

MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND

THE AUTHOR

A. E. JONES is the son of a father and mother who were both elementary school teachers, he went first to the local council school where his parents believed-and he agrees with them-that the best available primary education was to be obtained. He acquired no special knowledge of juvenile delinquency there, though he does remember that one of his fellow pupils achieved some notoriety by graduating to a reformatory. At the age of ten he won a scholarship to the county secondary school; seven years later he won a university scholarship. He left King's College, London, with a first class honours degree, and after a short spell in a City office, entered the service of the law. For close on 20 years he has been a magistrates' clerk and during that time he has had special occasion to study the problems of juvenile delinquency. Opportunities to study the more normal side of childhood have been afforded by his two daughters. For some time he has made a hobby of writing articles of technical interest for legal journals. This is his first full length book.

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

PAUL ZSOLNAY VERLAG

FIRST PRINTING 1948

WIEN, AUSTRIA

Young Man With A Horn - Dorothy Baker

The brilliant, tough and racy novel of a great jazz musician

TOWER BOOKS T-409

CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA

FIRST PRINTING JULY 1946

COVER ART BY GUNTER

The theme of this novel is as old history-the battle of the artist against the world. But the subject of it is as new as the latest dance tune. Young Man with a Horn is the story of a jazz musician who is a genius in the art of "swing," of his meteoric rise to fame, and of the burning conflict between body and spirit.

Rick Martin is still in his early twenties when a famous orchestra leader hears him and brings him to New York, where he becomes a sensation, recognized as the greatest trumpeter in the business. He is unswervingly devoted to one thing-his music. Then, in a Harlem night club, he meets Amy North, brilliant, perverse, complex-everything that Rick is not.

Here is a story with a ring of truth; the story of an artist burdened with that difficult baggage-the soul of an artist. The clean-cut, unpretentious style, the rapid tempo are beautifully in keeping with the theme.

Soho Spiv - Ben Sarto

MODERN FICTION

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1949

COVER ART BY PERL

Million-Sale Ben Sarto Shocks London with his new "SOHO SPIV"