Viper - Raymond Thorp

THE TRUE AND TERRIFYING STORY OF A DRUG ADDICT

WDL BOOKS T.S.891

FIRST PRINTING 1960

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ROBERT HALE 1956

The Confessions of a Drug Addict

For the first time in this country since de Quincey, a drug addict has written his astounding confessions; a documentary that horrifies yet compels the reader to walk with Thorp into the half-light of London's drug world.

The author, a young clerk from suburbia, haunts the jazz clubs of Soho and finally begins to smoke Indian hemp - or marijuana. It is the first step on the road to prison and to a living death. Soon he is a "pusher" - agent for a drug ring selling hemp and heroin. He tells how London's two big dealers obtain their supplies, how they are distributed and where they are sold. Thorp holds nothing back. He writes of clubs and cafes where addicts gathered until Scotland Yard's vice squad, by raiding them, split up the gatherings. At one time he is living in a luxury flat, bought from the proceeds of illegal sales, but slowly he begins to slide to degradation.

Back Alley Jungle - Leo Margulies

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 631

Publishing Year: 1963

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 4'-

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back alley jungle

TALES OF TODAY'S TERROR

They will shock you,

they will anger you,

they will make you wonder

...and they will scare

the hell out of you!

Read these devastating stories 

of teen-age hoods and tramps

who infest our streets

and schools, terrorize out towns

and turn our cities into a 

back alley jungle

College Confidential - Irving Shulman

A hotbed of scandal erupts on campus when a professor surveys his students' private lives

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 517

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2/6

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WAS HIS SURVEY STRICTLY SCIENTIFIC?

DID THE PROFESSOR USE HIS OWN APARTMENT TO "STUDY" THE PRIVATE LIVES OF HIS STUDENTS?

COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL

A novel by Irving Shulman

Based on the screenplay Produced and Directed by Albert Zugsmith

A Famous Players Corp. Picture

Released by Universal-International

Starring STEVE ALLEN, JAYNE MEADOWS, WALTER WINCHELL and MAMIE VAN DOREN

 

The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 07938 3

Publishing Year: 1968

Printing: First

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THE NAKED LUNCH

"EXTRAORDINARY AND DEVASTATING,

FUNNY AND TERRIBLE,

HORRIBLE AND HAUNTING.

Like Genet turned into a Marx Brothers script, this is the real journey to the end of the night, a Big Dipper ride through the black underworld of the human soul.

To read it, it's like Ulysses put through a speeded-up projector onto a distorted cinema screen. It is a gruesome, tormented and a chillingly pessimistic view of the universe. But that is where Burroughs dwelt during the time of his addiction."

Kenneth Allsop - Daily Mail

"Mr. Burroughs joins a small body of writers who are willing to look at hell and report what they see.

I can think of only one other writer with whom he can be compared: Jonathan Swift. It demands to be read."

Anthony Burgess - The Guardian

"A furious apocalypse, splendid and exasperating."

The Sunday Times

City Jungle - Joseph Hilton

Publisher: Brandon House

Number: 944

Publishing Year: 1966

Printing: First

Cover Price: 95¢

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Originally published as "Angels in the Gutter"

TRAPPED IN THE TEEMING JUNGLES OF THE CITY STREETS, RUTHIE FOUGHT WITH THE CUNNING OF A TIGER CAT TO GAIN HER FREEDOM

A Matter Of Conviction - Evan Hunter

EVAN HUNTER examines juvenile delinquency and race hatred in New York's jungle. . .

an explosive novel by the author of STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: GN912

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First

Cover Price: 3'6

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" I stabbed him four times. . . . ."

The backstreet killer kids of New York; their gangs, their girls, their passions and their hates vividly brought to life by EVAN HUNTER, author of "The Blackboard Jungle" and "Strangers When We Meet" - one of the great novelists of our time.

"High drama - a powerful, swift-moving story..."

-Press & Journal

The Holy Barbarians - Lawrence Lipton

The first complete inside story of the Beat Generation

Who they are / What they believe / How they live

Publisher: Black Cat Books

Number: BC-17

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 75c

Cover Artist: 

What does it mean to be "Beat?"

What effect have the "Beats" had on the American Way of Life?

What are their beliefs regarding sex, jazz, the use of drugs? Is the "Beat Generation" a passing fad or a deep-seated revolt? These and many other questions are answered in this book, which uses conversations, personal interviews, and tape recordings to delve beneath the surface and show the real world of the "Beats."

"The Holy Barbarians is replete with the frank autobiographical reminisces of a group of young Americans of extremely varied backgrounds, who hold in common only a complete rejection of the values of bourgeois society. . . .

No One is going to be able to assess the depth and breadth of this rebellion without referring to Lipton's humane and sensitive book."

- Harvey Swados

Nightmare Street - Hal Ellson

The big, brutal story of a nightmare world where passion is a pastime and pain a pleasure

Publisher: Belmont Books

Number: 9o-316

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First

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"SHOCKING"

is what the Saturday Review has said of Hal Ellson's writing

"FASCINATING"

is what the New York Herald Tribune said of Hal Ellson's smash bestseller, DUKE

TREMENDOUS

is what they'll say about NIGHTMARE STREET, the story of a man who looked for the easy life, only to find that he'd made a pact with a diabolical, deadly stranger who led him into a life of sex, sin and sadism - a life of torture and torment from which there was no escape.

All The Way Down - Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum

THE VIOLENT UNDERWORLD OF STREET GANGS

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Number: F 712

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 50c

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ALL THE WAY DOWN

is the story of five years spent in the vicious, appalling underworld of the juvenile street gangs. Vincent Riccio, ex-boxer with an M.A. degree from Columbia, was a street worker with the New York City Youth Board. The life he describes makes "West Side Story" sound like a kindergarten fairy tale.

This is the brutal, unadorned truth about a world where rival gangs fight "wars" with tire-chains, knives and guns; where the teen-age date is replaced by mass rape in the back seat of a stolen car; where murder is a status symbol and kids of 14 are hopelessly hooked on dope.

"Juvenile delinquency is going to be unbeatable in ten years," the Attorney General of the United States said recently. Vincent Riccio writes bitterly: "I hope it's not unbeatable now."

Pablo's Mountain - Albert Johnston

 A BOY EXPLODES INTO MANHOOD IN THIS CLASSIC OF "DEPRAVITY VIEWED THROUGH THE EYES OF INNOCENCE"

Publisher: Award Books

Number: A164 X K

Publishing Year: 1966 (January)

Printing: First

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"Moving . . . Disturbing"

-N.Y. Times

You have just come to New York City looking for a home, a job, and (yes, Miguel would soon admit this to himself) love.

But in El Barrio, the heart of this city, you find only corruption: prostitutes for neighbors, hoodlums for the children to play with. In El Barrio you live with fear by day and violence by night.

This is the background for the book that shocked New Yorkers, and readers across the nation, when it became the fiction "sleeper" of the year. This is story behind New York City's explosive headlines.

"MR. JOHNSTON IS TO BE CONGRATULATED"

-San Francisco Chronicle

Tuck's Girl - Marcel Wallenstein

THE VIOLENT STORY OF A REFORMATORY GIRL AND HER HOPELESS PASSION FOR A HARDENED YOUNG CRIMINAL

Publisher: Ace Books

Number: H 319

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First

Cover Price: 2/6

Cover Artist:

TUCK

A savage crook in jail for robbery with murder

HIS GIRL

Anna, a reformatory girl, runaway from bad home, dominated by her fierce longing for a love which is now only a bitter memory

THE STORY

Anna is told that two hundred dollars will ensure Tuck's parole. She commits murder to get it, then takes to the road with the half-breed Indian who has helped with the crime, and is timidly in love with her. She has no regard for the half-breed, but uses him cruelly to protect herself, following a path of deception and cunning until her final disillusionment.

Tuck's Girl is a remarkable story of the lengths to which a woman will go when a rememembered love is all that she lives for

Die Halbstarken | Teenage Wolfpack Postcard

Die Halbstarken | Teenage Wolfpack 

Postcard

1950s/1960s

German issue postcard featuring Karin Baal and Horst Buchholz in Die Halbstarken

Teenage Wolfpack | Die Halbstarken - Autograph Postcard

Teenage Wolfpack | Die Halbstarken 

Union Film

Autograph Postcard

1950s/1960s

A german autograph card of Jo Herbst who played Günther in the film Die Halbstarken. 

 

The Cheats - Francoise D'Eaubonne

A BRILLIANT AND TERRIFYING STORY OF FRENCH TEEN-AGERS.

A NOVEL BASED ON THE SENSATIONAL MARCEL CARNE FILM LES TRICHEURS

Publisher: Ace Books

Number: H395

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First 

Cover Price: 2/6

Cover Artist:

The Book of the Film

THE CHEATS

(Les Tricheurs)

A brilliant novel by Francoise d'Eaubonne based on the controversial film by Marcel Carne. This is a story of the beatniks of Paris for whom fast cars, sullen drinking and unbridled sex are compensations for a lack of purpose in their apathetic lives

The film Les Tricheurs is made by Silver Films and Cinetel and distributed in England by Gala Films

Poor Cow

POOR COW

aka STAKKELS KO

DENMARK 1968 (?)

"Look at those creeps... bet they haven't even put films in the cameras. Still a girl's got to earn a living... and a loving."

Starring Terence Stamp, Carol White and John Bindon

Directed by Ken Loach

 A Joseph Janni Production for Vic Films and Fenchurch Films 

UK 1967

Based on the novel by Nell Dunn

Spare The Rod

SPARE THE ROD

aka VERSUCHUNG AUF DER SCHULBANK

(Temptation on the School Desk)

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE VEREINIGT 

MIT ILLUSTR. FILM-KURIER Nr. 6215

WEST GERMANY 1962

Starring Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence and  Geoffery Keen

Directed by Leslie Norman

Weyland Films

UK 1961

Based on the novel by Michael Croft

 

Beat Girl

BEAT GIRL

aka HEISS AUF NACKTEN STEINEN

(Hot on Naked Stones)

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 2088

AUSTRIA 1960

"Dynamic drama of youth mad about "beat", living for kicks!"

Starring Adam Faith, Christopher Lee and Gillian Hills

Directed by Edmond T. Gréville

Willoughby Film Productions

UK 1960

Also known as 'WILD FOR KICKS'

Mix Me A Person

MIX ME A PERSON

aka HUNDERT STUNDEN ANGST

(A Hundred Hours of Fear)

ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE NR. 6980

WEST GERMANY 1964

"The dramatic story of one girl's fight to free a youth charged with murder!"

Starring Adam Faith, Anne Baxter and Donald Sinden

Directed by Leslie Norman

Wessex Film Productions

UK 1962

Based on the book by Jack Trevor Story

Beat Poets - Selected by Gene Baro

Publisher: Vista Books

Number: Pocket Poets Series - No Number

Publishing Year: 1961

Printing: First 

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Includes poems by Paul Carroll, Gregory Corso, Edward Dorn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Le Roi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Ron Loewinsohn, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen,  John Wieners and Jonathan Williams.

The Happening

 

DIE MEUTE (THE MOB)

aka THE HAPPENING

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM 4707

AUSTRIA 1967

"Hear "The Supremes" Sing the Swinging Hit Song...From the Swinging Hit Picture!"

Starring Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Faye Dunaway and Michael Parks

Directed by Elliot Silverstein

Horizon Pictures

U.S.A. 1967

Four hippies kidnap a retired Mafia mob boss and hold him for ransom. This was Faye Dunaway's film debut.