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

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

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.

Black Rice - Katharine Sim

THE OPIUM TRADE IN MODERN MALAYA

a story of the operators who make vast profits from human misery and vice

ACE BOOKS H512

1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HODDER & STOUGHTON 1959

It is hard to imagine her rendering of the Malayan scene being bettered: the colouring is gorgeous without being lurid, the canvas packed with detail but never overcrowded.

-Times Literary Supplement

A very fine book...The central story tells of an attempt to smuggle large quantities of opium but readers will keep and remember this book because of its haunting description of Malayan life.

-Time and Tide

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

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

The Salt Of The Hide - Betty Singleton

Astonishing...a bitter terrifying novel of wild teenage delinquents

ACE BOOKS (UK) H443

1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ROBERT HALE 1958

Miss Singleton takes on the problem of the Teddy Boy...The atmosphere of slum and youth club is well done and here is a book clearly with its heart in the right place.

-NEWS CHRONICLE

What makes a Teddy Boy? This realistic yet compassionate novel illustrates the immense difficulties facing those trying to help boys who are the victims not only of themselves but of bad surroundings and associates. Effective blend of story with topical social problems.

-SUNDAY TIMES

The humanity behind the story is genuine, the story itself is moving and leaves a lasting impression.

-BOOKS AND BOOKMEN

Miss Singleton shows an astounding familiarity with the argot of teenage gangsters...as modern as a two-tone convertible...A remarkable novel.

-THE TABLET

Satchmo : My Life in New Orleans - Louis Armstrong

"The Colourful Vice-Ridden Days Of New Orleans"

ACE BOOKS 146

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1957

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PETER DAVIES FEBRUARY 1955

New Orleans - with its savage, joyous struggles for existence; its vigorous, warm personalities, its brutalities, its poignancy. New Orleans, the cradle of jazz and of all-time king of jazz - Louis Armstrong. This is a one-man success story with a difference, for Armstrong came up the hard way, and Satchmo gives us here the whole incredible, vital tingling Armstrong history from the slums of his childhood through reformatory to the time he left his fabulous Mississippi city and headed out trumpeting for Chicago and the world.

The Man With The Golden Arm - Nelson Algren

"The classic modern novel of drug addiction on which the sensational Frank Sinatra film was based"

ACE BOOKS H414

LONDON, UK

FIRST ACE BOOKS EDITION 1961

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY NEVILLE ARMSTRONG 1959

the Man with the Golden Arm

Carl Sandburg says of Nelson Algren

"Great qualities of insight into people, a heart of pity, a gift of cadence and song, and often when you near heartbreak he throws in comic relief. The interwoven police, politicians, gamblers and thieves, fixers and hustlers, the jargons of the night-clubs and prisons, these are here in The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren makes his living grotesques so terribly human that their faces, voices, shames, follies and deaths, can linger in your mind with a strange midnight dignity. I join with Ernest Hemingway in hoping that Algren lives on, holds to his standards, and writes a long shelf of books."

Black Boy - Richard Wright

"A Scorching Story Of A Negro Adolescent In A Hostile World"

ACE BOOKS H269

LONDON, UK

FIRST ACE BOOKS EDITION 1959

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1945

A picture of suffering, squalor, and injustices: Richard Wright's account of his childhood makes painful but absorbing reading.

-Peter Quennell: DAILY MAIL

It is a distressingly truthful account of the life of a Negro boy...One of the few books I've read that I know I shall never forget.

-NEW STATESMAN

This is a grim book - it's bound to be, because it gives you the human aspect of a terrifying problem.

-B.B.C. BROADCAST

The best review of Black Boy would be in two words: 'Read it.' A record of loneliness, bewilderment and poverty.

-TIME AND TIDE

The Girl Outside - Alan Bestic

"The true story of Barbara Marston, 17 years old...Prison inmate - Street girl - Delinquent"

ACE BOOKS H481

LONDON, UK

1ST ACE EDITION 1961

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY BARRIE AND ROCKLIFF 1959

THE GIRL OUTSIDE

DAILY HERALD

As a picture of a neurotic youthful underworld a story like Barbara's should have enough material for a picaresque novel plus several TV documentaries

DAILY TELEGRAPH

A raw story-the story of a little girl with an outsize craving for love

the true story of Barbara Marston by Alan Bestic

Let Me Alone - Donald Windham

"A tough teen-ager in search of manhood"

ACE BOOKS H317

1st ACE EDITION 1960

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RUPERT HART-DAVIS AS "THE DOG STAR"

The atmosphere of Let Me Alone seems unimpeachably authentic; the family for whom Blackie feels mingled affection and repulsion, the neighbourhood boys who seem to him pathetically feeble compared to the dead hero, the girl to whom he behaves with savage and unmeaning violence - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

 A boy of fifteen, an American whose ideal is to be tough and indifferent, makes Let Me Alone a nightmare of sultry heat - THE GUARDIAN

It has the eternal validity of legend : it delineates a truth that is too powerful to be a cliche against a background that is too mean to be anything else - THE LISTENER

Asphalt Playground - John Wiles

"THE SOMBRE AND VIOLENT WORLD OF TEEN-AGE DELINQUENTS IN A LONDON SLUM"

ACE BOOKS H340

LONDON, UK

1ST ACE BOOKS EDITION 1960

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1958

Mr. Wiles is a talented writer, and the economy and gruesome humour of his novel intensifies our shocked comprehension of the teddy boy jungle - The Times Literary Supplement

A fine novel about children and how they are changed into toughs - The Guardian