Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts

Wednesday 30 December 2020

The Mini-Skirt Mob



DIE SATANS-ENGEL VON NEVADA (THE SATANIC ANGELS OF NEVADA)
aka THE MINI-SKIRT MOB
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM NR. 5251
AUSTRIA 1969

"They're hog straddling female animals on the prowl."

Starring Jeremy Slate, Diane McBain and Sherry Jackson 
Directed by Maury Dexter
American International Pictures (AIP)
U.S.A. 1968

When asked about this picture, Sherry Jackson said, "I hated that movie--what a piece of junk".

Monday 28 December 2020

Motorpsycho


WIE WILDE HENGSTE (LIKE WILD STALLIONS)
aka MOTORPSYCHO
ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE NR. 7828
WEST GERMANY 1968

"Cyclemaniacs assaulting and killing for thrills! 
Bike riding Hoodlums Flat-Out on their Murder cycles."

Starring Haji, Alex Rocco and Steve Oliver 
Directed by Russ Meyer
Eve productions / Harlequin Pictures
U.S.A. 1965

Friday 25 December 2020

The Shiny Narrow Grin - Jane Gaskell

AN UNINHIBITED NOVEL OF TEENAGE MORALS, TOUGH, IRONIC AND PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING


Publisher: Hodder Books
Number: 743
Publishing Year: 1965
Printing: First 
Cover Price: 
Cover Artist:

I want him, Terry thinks. I want The Boy. Terry is a Mod. The Boy is something altogether more profoundly disturbing. He is not insane but there is a deeper terror in his relationship with the schoolgirl who is sure she can look after herself.

DAILY EXPRESS . . . 'precocious teenage world of pep-pills, parties and punch-ups, all vividly and waspishly observed'

SUNDY TELEGRAPH . . . 'as hip a description of the teenage scene as has appeared for some time'

SPECTATOR . . . ' a splendid piece of documentary writing'

EVENING STANDARD . . . ' Miss Gaskell's style is crisp, concise and lively, the dialogue waspish and with-it, the observationb of teenage morals and manners rings authentic'

HARPER'S BAZZAR
'A book not to give your aunt'

Thursday 24 December 2020

The Wasted Years - Jess Stearn

 SEX - SADISM AND MURDER 

BRUTALITY AND PERVERSION 

- PROSTITUTION AND DRUG ADDICTION 

These are the trademarks of the teen-age gangs


Publisher: Hillman Macfadden Books
Number: 50-109
Publishing Year: 1961
Printing: First 
Cover Price: 50c
Cover Artist:

SEX-and-SADISM by teen-agers!

MURDER-and-MAYHEM by mere children!

You read about it every day in your newspaper but . . .

WHY did a pretty Texas teen-ager kill her brother "just for kicks?"

WHY did a boy say calmly, "I don't know why I killed him; I didn't even know him?

WHY did a seventeen-year old say, "I wanted to see how it felt for a knife to dig into bone?"

WHY did a clean-cut youngster stomp a total stranger to death because he didn't like the tune the man was humming?

Jess Stearn, top New York newspaperman, goes behind the scenes to search for the "why" in this carefully documented study of what happens before and after the headlines.

Sunday 20 December 2020

Fanny - Hank Janson

 She was rich and bored, and her search for new thrills led her to the sadistic beatnik artist


Publisher: Gold Star Books
Number: IL7-28 (Hank Janson Mystery Series No. 11)
Publishing Year: 1964
Printing: First 
Cover Price: 
Cover Artist:

Fanny was rich, spoiled, bored with life. She had experienced just about everything and wanted new thrills. So not even Hank Janson could stop her from becoming the mistress and slave of a sadistic beatnik artist. But she got more than she bargained for when the "beatnik" turned out to be something other than just a phony down-and-out painter.

Saturday 12 December 2020

The Cool World - Warren Miller

All the savagery and frenzy of New York's teenage gang world


FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1319
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING 1965
ORIGINALLY  PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SECKER & WARBURG 1959

"WHEN I COME WALKING DOWN THE STREET PEOPLE SAY 'HERE COME DUKE. HE COOL, HE GOT HEART.' WHEN THEY SEE ME STRUT THEY KNOW A RUMBLE IS ON."

'Here is a small masterpiece; the interior life of a teenage Harlem gangster whose fright and misery are expressed by going down in a rival gang on a fury of zip-guns and knives.'
-DAILY MAIL

'The sex life of the Crocodiles, and Duke's proprietorship of Lu Ann, the gang's fifteen year old tart, is the authentic slum jungle pattern.'
-NEW STATESMAN

'A tour-de-force in which a Negro boy, Duke Custis, tells in his own words . . . what it is like to lead a gang in Harlem. He spends the days he is describing by one means or another, selling reefers, a little light whoring in Central Park, to scrape together the money for a gun.'
-THE OBSERVER

Thursday 10 December 2020

Savage Streets - William McGivern


FONTANA BOOKS 683
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
1ST PRINTING 1962
ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK 1959

What would you do if your street was invaded by teenage thugs?

THESE ARE THE SYMPTOMS

A boy is caught stealing.

Another is caught out in a clumsy lie.

A third steals an automatic.

MUST YOU REVERT TO THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE TO PRESERVE YOUR WAY OF LIFE?

Sunday 6 December 2020

Teen Temptress - Bart Michaels

 She had the experience of an older woman, the morals of a she-wolf - and a whole high school for her wanton playground.


DOMINO BOOKS 72-743
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1964

MOST LIKELY TO SEX-CEED

At Dorset High, the student body didn't do much studying - but the girl with the best body could go a long way. Patty Neilson - 15 years old, but built like a young Sophia Loren - didn't rate the Honor Society . . . but she knew she had the best, bustiest, most beautiful body available . . .

And she made it available . . . 

To the right boy - or teacher . . . at the right time . . . for the right price . . . Until every male in the school wanted her - and the result was an explosion of passion that rocked not only the school itself, but the entire town.

Friday 4 December 2020

Light The Dark Streets - C. Kilmer Myers


DOLPHIN BOOKS C193
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1961
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE SEABURY PRESS 1957
COVER DESIGN BY GEORGE GIUSTI
COVER PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF LOOK MAGAZINE

"Light the Dark Streets is written by the [Episcopalian] Vicar of St. Augustine's Chapel, on Henry Street in the heart of New York's Lower East Side. The story Father Myers tells often is not a pleasant one, but it is a compelling one nevertheless. It is the story of a great love of mankind bringing light to an area filled with the darkness of human misery of every kind. It is, of necessity, a personal story, for he has lived and worked closely with those he and his associates are trying to help.

"Henry Street is a slum area, overcrowded, poverty-ridden, and a breeding ground for tensions of all kinds. Yet it is home for nearly a quarter of a million people of all colors, races, and creeds - among them a gang of Negro boys who called themselves the Knights.

"Father Myers tells the individual stories of some of the members of the gang, what they felt, what influences were turning them into lawless rebels, what was done to try to help them, and the measure of success or failure. Among the problems that had to be combated were racial prejudice, sex, dope, poverty, broken homes, fear, and loneliness. He also tells the story of the gang as a unit, what brought it into existence, and the forces which motivated its actions."

-Law and Order

Monday 30 November 2020

The Cool World - Warren Miller

 "Astonishing . . . a bitter, terrifying tale of our New York jungle."
-N.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE



CREST BOOKS s386
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING JULY 1960
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY 1959

THE JUNGLE

In this shockingly authentic novel, warren Miller has caught the strangeness and wildness of the hopped-up, frenzied world of teenage street gangs. He lets Duke, War Lord of the Crocodiles, tell in his own words how they talk, think, live: what makes them fight . . . what makes them kill.

"When I come walking down the street people say 'Here come Duke. He cool. He got heart.' When they see me strut they know a rumble is on. I swinging with the gang tonight."

"Compared with Duke's 'cool world,' Studs Lonigan's Chicago or Tom Joad's Oklahoma are playgrounds for clergymen's children . . ."
-SATURDAY REVIEW

Saturday 28 November 2020

The Temple Of Gold - William Goldman

 A stunning novel of a lost generation - angry, rootless, defiant young men and women in a frantic search for fulfilment.



CORGI BOOKS GN969
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING 1961
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY KNOPF, USA 1957

William Goldman's THE TEMPLE OF GOLD

An angry library trustee wrote to the publishers that THE TEMPLE OF GOLD is a "blue-print for juvenile delinquency", and should be denied space on library shelves. We think he missed the point.

Actually, this enormously exciting, passionate, violent and touching book - - though it admittedly talks about sex with no holds barred, and is packed with scenes that shock and even horrify - - became an overnight, surprise bestseller because it is the truth - - the truth about the most controversial generation, told by one of them.

THE TEMPLE OF GOLD is a whale of a book. It can make you laugh. It can break your heart. It may make you shudder. You may not have the guts to like it. But you'd better read it.

THE EDITORS

Thursday 26 November 2020

The Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

A searing novel of New York's East Side drenched with the truth of real emotions.



CONSUL BOOKS 1088
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING 1962

THE AMBOY DUKES

Over two million copies of this novel have been sold in the United States. Of the novel, this has been said, "The Amboy Dukes represent a small minority among boy gangs, but because of over-crowded schools and tired teachers, racial and religious tensions, that small minority is becoming alarmingly less small. That is why Mr. Shulman's book is important and timely." With its slashing realism it is one of the best novels on juvenile delinquency ever written.

Tuesday 24 November 2020

Cycle Fury - Reggie Carr

What happens when a gang of frenzied motorcycle outlaws takes over a small town? . . . with all the local girls as personal prisoners of war?



CHEVRON BOOKS WWNC 124
CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA
1ST PRINTING 1967

. . LUST-CRAZED MOTORCYCLE GANG THREATENS SMALL TOWN . . .

This could be a headline from today's newspaper. And what are the ingredients for this explosive situation?

The Devil Cats, rapacious motorcycle gang, roar into the peaceful village of Sanford to take over a lakeside beach . . . and threaten to add the local high school girls to their collection of anything-goes chicks.

Who are these sociopaths?

Zipper Hardy, their red-bearded Chief, rules his mob and his women - with an iron fist.

Lil Adams, his depraved girlfriend, who uses every weapon to hold on to Zip.

Ham, a giant Negro, delights in torturing the teen-followers who worship the Cats.

Terrible, Itchy and Joe. Their only laws are Take and Survive.

These and other members of their crew are pitted against the high schoolers:

Darcy Williams, the school temptress. Her desires for Zip hardy leaves her unsatisfied with . . .

Rod Baker, Darcy's ex-boyfriend, whose main desire is to re-establish his relationship with Darcy.

Kenneth Masters, school assistant-principal. His interest in Darcy is more passionate than pedagogical.

These groups must clash, and the situation boils on toward a gut-wrenching climax!

Saturday 14 November 2020

Dungaree Sin - Frederick Lorenz

They carried acid bombs in their purses and knives under their clothing. They were the roughest, toughest girls on the waterfront.



CHARIOT BOOKS CB151
USA
1ST PRINTING 1960

BINNIE -

knew how to handle a mugging: or even a killing . . . 

Out to be top deb on "The Butt", she made it, with the help of:

SUGAR FERNANDEZ -

the little hot-blooded torpedo of the back streets . . .

MIDGE DALY - 

who defied the gang laws and took the consequences, and . . .

VERONICA FERENC - 

she had a crazy lust for violence but Binnie knew she was "chicken".

Thursday 12 November 2020

Long Night In Hell - James Henderson

 A LOVE-HUNGRY YOUNG GIRL LOOKED FOR EXCITEMENT AMONG THE BEAT AND FOUND DEGRADATION AND TERROR



BRANDON HOUSE 1041
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, USA
1ST PRINTING 1966

When Evvie sought the rich experience of life and sex she felt her talent needed among the 
neo-Beatniks of Venice beach, there she learned that death could be kinder than life at the ugly corridor's end.

Sunday 8 November 2020

The Leather Girls - Rae Coffey

Behind those bike-gang scenes . . . . The boys are hot-blooded and hairy - and their chicks know all the tricks of high-powered, hell-raising sex!



BEE-LINE BOOKS 388-Z
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1969

PASSION TRAIL

Wendie had a warm body, a torrid itch . . . and a frigid boy friend. Bill might be ideal husband material, but until the knot was tied he wasn't going to touch her. And she wanted to be a lot more than touched!

Mickey was - something else! He knew how to get the most out of a bike . . . . or a girl. He lived at top speed, and plunged into sex to the hilt. And Mickey and Wendie slaked all their desires by plunging together . . . 

Wendie joined the leather girls. She followed the lawless trail wherever it led: into gang fights, into robberies, into orgies, into oddball sex . . . and into a tempestuous, lascivious climax that blew the bike gangs and Wendie's wanton world to smithereens!

Friday 6 November 2020

The Wild Girls - Peggy Gaddis

 They were beautiful, sweet-looking, young. They were the picture of innocence . . . but they weren't.



BELMONT BOOKS L92-578
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING DECEMBER 1963
COVER ART BY BARYE PHILLIPS
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY CROYDON PUBLISHING Co AS "THRILL-HUNGRY GIRL" 1954

Celia looked like an angel.

Her grades in school were excellent. And they should be considering what she did with the male teachers.

She was very popular with the other girls even though she was the best looking of the group, but she had taught them all sorts of new exciting games.

And some of the folks in town were strangely respectful of her because she was not above ruining a life or two.

But her best achievement to date was that N.V. Club: The Non Virgin Club for Girls.

Wednesday 4 November 2020

Sex Town - Dean Hudson

GUTTERS OF LUST RAN WILD IN THIS . . . SEX TOWN



BEDSIDE BOOKS BB1209
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1961

BAG MAN OF SIN . . .

that was Matt Halloran, who came up from the slums, who took his love the hard way, forcing his women to passion, and who made the collections for the Combine, for Charlie St. John and his string of expensive call girls. It was Matt who discovered that the gorgeous mulatto woman of sin, Diana Wallace was actually a devotee of depravity, and that her "Romance," the torrid Inge, was hooked on junk. It was Matt who taught Diane what the fever heat of lust could really mean, and it brought his own unnatural sex desires to the front. So Matt went into the lovers lanes and forced girls to love him. His life began in evil and bestiality, and moved in poisoned passion until it became a . . .

. . . LIFE OF LUST!
 

Thursday 29 October 2020

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

Tuesday 27 October 2020

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!