The Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

 A NOVEL OF WAYWARD YOUTH IN BROOKLYN

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: 300

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: Eighth

Cover Price:

Cover Artist: Ann Cantor

"THIS BOOK IS EMPHATICALLY 

A READING 'MUST' FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. . ."

Edwin J. Lucas, Executive Director,

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME (NEW YORK)

This book is emphatically a reading "must" for young people as well as for the sociologist interested in the phenomena of gang warfare and neighborhood tensions. The saga of a conflict gang, told so powerfully in THE AMBOY DUKES, is really twice told: once, within the covers of this book: and again, in every city and town of the U.S.A. Rarely has a writer captured so faithfully and recorded so excitingly the poignant drama that is being daily unfolded for hundreds of thousands of our young people in the teeming pathways we call "streets."

Within the compass of every city street are found eloquent evidence of all society's strengths and weaknesses - from the towering air-conditioned edifices of industry to the filthy dwelling places provided for man to lay his weary body at day's end; from youth's craving for understanding, sympathy and affection, to the community's indifference to those needs. The street bears the tokens of all our ambitions, hopes and capacity to love and be loved. But there are also the scars of our fears, hates, envy, thirst for revenge, and the deep, tortured feelings of guilt which arise our of long forgotten as well as remembered episodes.

When and how can we bring these forces under control? It will, or should be, clear to the readers of THE AMBOY DUKES that they have it within their power to strike a telling blow against the continuance of the conditions - economic, social and psychological - which breed and foster crime.

Edwin J. Lucas, Executive Director,

Society for the Prevention of Crime

Cry Tough! - Irving Shulman

"As much a case history of juvenile delinquency and organised crime as it is a novel" - by the author of THE AMBOY DUKES

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: T-303

Publishing Year: 1958

Printing: Eleventh (Movie Tie-in)

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

A great, mature and moving novel of

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

that no parent of a growing boy or girl, and no adult can afford not to read. . .

"APPALLED BY VIOLENCE,

he found himself employed as a professional rougher-up. . .Engaged to a girl he respected, he found himself drawn to a beautiful tramp. . .

"CRY TOUGH! is a striking, compassionate and unsentimental treatment of a romanticized subject."

-N.Y. Herald Tribune

"CRY TOUGH!"

-now a great motion picture starring

John Saxon & Linda Cristal

A United Artists Release

Juvenile Hoods - Joseph Shallit

When marijuana means murder!

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: T-170

Publishing Year: 1959

Printing: First

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist:

Originally published as 'Kiss The Killer'

a rotten racket

narcotics

Some punk is selling marijuana to teen-agers. A heel who ought to be killed.

Someone is - and Dan Morrison is right in the middle of it because . . .

he runs the athletic center where the teen-age addicts hang out

he gets involved with a trio of gals who show him you can't mix murder with a kiss - unless it's a kiss of death.

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 Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

A NOVEL OF WAYWARD YOUTH IN BROOKLYN

AVON 300

8TH PRINTING, JANUARY 1951 (300,000)

NEW YORK, USA

"This Book Is Emphatically a Reading 'Must' for Young People..."

EDWIN J. LUCAS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME (NEW YORK)

This book is emphatically a reading "must" for young people as well as for the sociologist interested in the phenomena of gang warfare and neighborhood tensions. The saga of a conflict gang, told so powerfully in THE AMBOY DUKES, is really twice told: once, within the covers of this book: and again, in every city and town of the U.S.A. Rarely has a writer captured so faithfully and recorded so excitingly the poignant drama that is being daily unfolded for hundreds of thousands of our young people in the teeming pathways we call "streets."

Within the compass of every city street are found eloquent evidence of all society's strengths and weaknesses - from the towering air-conditioned edifices of industry to the filthy dwelling places provided for man to lay his weary body at day's end; from youth's craving for understanding, sympathy and affection, to the community's indifference to those needs. The street bears the tokens of all our ambitions, hopes and capacity to love and be loved. But there are also the scars of our fears, hates, envy, thirst for revenge, and the deep, tortured feelings of guilt which arise our of long forgotten as well as remembered episodes.

When and how can we bring these forces under control? It will, or should be, clear to the readers of THE AMBOY DUKES that they have it within their power to strike a telling blow against the continuance of the conditions - economic, social and psychological - which breed and foster crime.

EDWIN J. LUCAS,

Executive Director,

Society for the Prevention of Crime

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."

Jadie Greenway - I. S. Young

THE STORY OF A GIRL'S FIGHT FOR DECENCY IN BROOKLYN'S HARLEM

AVON 269

AVON REPRINT EDITION 1950

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY CROWN PUBLISHERS 1947

The Realistic Story of a Girl Delinquent

Young Jadie Greenway was hard. On the squalid slum-streets where she was raised, a girl had to fight to survive...and fiery-spirited Jadie, demanding every child's right to grow up into decent maturity, never ceased fighting.

This powerfully realistic story of an adolescent girl's struggle against a brutal environment and easy temptations makes gripping reading. Seldom has Avon been privileged to bring its readers so authentic an indictment of one of society's most shocking flaws. The meaning of JADIE GREENWAY is starkly implicit in every scene, on every exciting page.

Rusty Desmond - Steve January

SHE GREW UP TOO FAST

AVON BOOKS T-359

SECOND PRINTING NO DATE

NEW YORK, USA

"...better than The Amboy Dukes."

"I congratulate Mr. January. He's written a book about juvenile delinquency in America that is exciting and true, so true it is disturbing, so disturbing it may make people think and do; and if a novel does these things then it succeeds for the author, the reader and society. Read this book. It's good-and important."

...From the introduction by Irving Shulman

Taffy - Philip B. Kaye

"..A FIERCE, JARRING AND IMPORTANT PIECE OF WORK.." N.Y. TIMES

AVON BOOKS 377

NO DATE (1951)

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY RAY JOHNSON

"It is tough like 'Studs Lonnigan'...a devastating chronicle...on juvenile delinquency..."

N.Y. DAILY MIRROR

"Mr. Kaye has written frightening, brilliant scenes that show Taffy and his gang getting drunk, robbing an apartment, playing pool, fighting. Taffy and his friends...are terribly alive, completely believable."

Saturday Review of Literature

"...terrifically human, this novel is a fierce, jarring, and important piece of work."

N.Y. Times

Rarely has a book so faithfully recorded the drama that unfolds daily in the slum sections of our great cities. The story of TAFFY could be the story of a kid any of us might know. We feel sure that after having read it, you will better understand the normal urges of youth and what happens when a sordid environment perverts a boy until delinquency results.

Hot Rod Gang Rumble - Meyer Dolinsky

Teen-age Tigress - She Drove Boys To Juvenile Delinquency!

with photos from the powerful motion picture - Hot Rod Rumble

AVON 783

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING 1957

MOVIE TIE-IN 

SHE GREW UP TOO FAST...

She was young, blonde and beautiful-a smouldering package of feminine dynamite in a body too mature for her years...

She was one of the crowd who grew up too fast, who defy death for the casual "thrill" of it, who are out for "kicks" at any price...

Disturbing and boldly realistic, HOT ROD GANG RUMBLE is an incisive portrait of a "hot rod club" -and the slick chick who stirred it to violence and destruction!

Read the Avon book.

See HOT ROD RUMBLE, an Allied Artists

release starring

LEIGH SNOWDEN

RICHARD HRTUNIAN

and WRIGHT KING

Teen-Age Mobster - Benjamin Appel

Teen-Age Violence - and Adult Vice

AVON T-468

NEW YORK, USA 

SECOND PRINTING WITH THIS TITLE AND NEW COVER ART - NO DATE

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BY AVON IN 1955 AS "LIFE AND DEATH OF A TOUGH GUY"

YOUNG HOOD

Out of the slum back alleys and the violent sandlots of Hell's Kitchen came young Joey Case-

an ordinary, decent kid who might have been your neighbor's son one year...suddenly turned vicious mobster, "lady's man," and brutal killer the next.

With unflinching honesty, yet depth and compassion as well, one of the truly big writers about the New York underworld tells his story-as timely and terrifying as tomorrow's headlines-the story of a kid who made murder his chosen career.

"THE BEST ACCOUNT YET IN THE FORM OF A NOVEL OF A DEBASING PHASE OF OUR HISTORY..."

-N.Y. Journal-American

The Jungle - Nelson Algren

"A great novel of lawless youth" 

"A book of the hour...close to the raw" -New York Times

AVON BOOKS T-185

NEW YORK, USA

NO DATE 1950's

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK AS BY THE VANGUARD PRESS AS 'SOMEBODY IN BOOTS' 1935

"A powerful and disturbing book, which does not shrink from the harsh facts of violence, rape and human wretchedness."

-New York Sun

"Frank and brutal...violence and transcient, narcotic beauty"

-Washington, D.C., Post

The forthright story of Cass McKay : 

his father, a devil by his own admission-

his brother, an unmanly drunken wreck-

his sister, a gentle girl enslaved by hunger-

-and of that small, restless section of our youth of both sexes, which - in the absence of proper parental supervision - rides the rods that lead to degradation and delinquency.

"This book should be read, reread and studied."

-Washington, D.C., Post

"Sizzling from the griddle of experience"

-New York Times

How Rough Can It Get? - Joe Weiss

A startling story of modern youth

AVON BOOKS 582

NEW YORK, USA
NO DATE
SPECIALLY REVISED AND EDITED FOR AVON BOOKS

here is a picture
of present day New York City which
is overwhelming in its force and originality.

It is the story of a group of young men
and the hungers and frustrations that drive 
them from girl to girl, from job to job -
and which turns the city into a battleground
of human frailty, with no holds barred.

Teen-Age Mobster - Benjamin Appel

"Teen-Age Violence - and Adult Vice"

AVON BOOKS T-162

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1957

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS 'LIFE AND DEATH OF A TOUGH GUY'

YOUNG HOOD

Out of slum back alleys and the violent sandlots of Hell's Kitchen came young Joey Case-

an ordinary, decent kid who might have been your neighbors' son one year...suddenly turned vicious mobster, "lady's man," and brutal killer the next.

With unflinching honesty, yet depth and compassion as well, one of the truly big writers of our day now tells his story-as timely and terrifying as tomorrow's headlines-the story of a kid who made murder his chosen career...

"THE BEST ACCOUNT YET IN THE FORM OF A NOVEL OF A DEBASING PHASE OF OUR HISTORY..."

N.Y. Journal-American

Four Boys A Girl And A Gun - Willard Weiner

"The story of a street gang in a big city's slum"

AVON BOOKS 292

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1951

SPECIALLY REVISED AND EDITED

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS AS 'FOUR BOYS AND A GUN' 1944

A Vivid and Powerful Picture of Juvenile Delinquency

Johnny Doyle came from Irish immigrants. Benny's folks came from Poland. Tony's parents from Italy. Yet, they were neighbors in the slums of America-side by side with Eddie Richards, of old "American stock." Together they learned that poverty is no respecter of ancestry, that to the brutal and bold belong the rewards-in life and in love-and they patterned their ways after the city jungle's rule of tooth and claw.

Love they took as they found it, money was to be had at pistol point...until blunder and panic pulled the trigger that brought their stark activities into the grim light of a pitiless society. FOUR BOYS, A GIRL AND A GUN is a sensational and dramatic revelation of juvenile delinquency in the "great American melting pot" of the big city slums.

They Who Sin - John Roeburt

"A biting novel of teen-age wolf packs..and of a boy's lonely battle to save his own soul"

AVON BOOKS T-321

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1959

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

PORTRAIT OF A KILLER

He was seventeen.

His complexion was olive, his young body lean and strong.

His brown eyes were sometimes warm with dreams-

...of a far-off, sun-drenched island where birds sing and footsteps behind you do not fill you with terror;

...of Karin, the golden nymph whose green eyes and curvy figure aroused all the normal young-man yearnings.

But his name was Rico Mendero, and his reality was a world of back streets-of gutters and gangs, a world of exploding hate and violence where he forgot his dreams...

The Young Killers - Willard Weiner

"The story of a street gang in a big city slum"

AVON BOOKS T-174

NEW YORK, USA

REVISED EDITION - NO DATE c 1957

FIRST PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS AS 'FOUR BOYS AND A GUN' 1944

COVER ART BY SUSSMAN

A VIVID AND POWERFUL PICTURE OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

JOHNNY DOYLE came of Irish immigrants. BENNY's folks came from Poland. TONY's parents from Italy. Yet, they were neighbors in the slums of America - side-by-side with EDDIE RICHARDS, of old "American stock." Together they learned that poverty is no respect of ancestry - and they patterned their ways after the city jungle's rule of tooth and claw.

Love they took as they found it, money was to be had at pistol point...until blunder and panic pulled the trigger that brought their stark activities into the public light. THE YOUNG KILLERS is a sensational and dramatic revelation of juvenile delinquncy in the "great American melting pot" of the big city slums.