Hot Rod - Henry Gregor Felsen

Speed. . .Danger. . .DEATH!

Publisher: Bantam Books

Number: 923

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: First

Cover Price:

Cover Artist:

WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY OF THIS MNOVEL:

". . .PUNCH, DRAMA, SUSPENSE, SWIFT ACTION, SHREWD CHARACTERIZATION. . ."

-Dallas TIMES

"Full of thrills and excitement, hard to put down. . ."

-Wichita EAGLE

"DRAMA-PACKED, PLENTY OF SUSPENSE. . ."

-Montgomery (Ala.) ADVERTISER

Angels Camp - Ray Morrison

 Young Criminals - in a prison camp without Walls!

BANTAM BOOKS 794

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING JULY 1950

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY W. W. NORTON & Co 1949

COVER ART BY DENVER GILLEN

This savage novel may shock you - but you'll never forget it. Bantam Books Inc. believes its readers want to know the brutal truth about juvenile delinquents - and whether there is any hope for them.

ZUBIAT

. . . that was his name . . . this sixteen-year old son of a jailbird father and a no-good mother. No wonder he already had a shady past behind him - and nothing ahead of him but a terrible, blood-stained future.

Then he was sentenced to Camp Matthews - "Angels Camp." There he met a lot of young hoodlums, whose life-stories will shock you. But he also met Mr. Grozier, the counselor who really wanted to help.

Coul Grozier win his battle for Zubiat . . . against Zubiat himself?

"Boot-tough novel . . . skillfully done . . . should go a long way toward awakening the public to the truth about juvenile delinquency." - KING FEATURES SYNDICATE

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe

 BLACK RAGE AND WHITE GUILT - THE OUTRAGEOUS NEW BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST

BANTAM BOOKS 553 06919 125

NEW YORK, USA

SECOND PRINTING 1971

RADICAL CHIC WAS SERIALIZED IN CHICAGO TODAY IN FEB 1971

MAU-MAUING APPEARED IN COSMOPOLITAN IN APRIL 1971

RADICAL CHIC APPEARED IN SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT FORM IN NEW YORK MAGAZINE IN JUNE 1970

HARDBACK EDITION PUBLISHED BY FARRAR, STRAUS NOVEMBER 1970

"He understands the human animal like no sociologist around. He tweaks his reader's every buried thought and predjudice. He sees through everything. He is as original and outrageous as ever." - THE NEW YORK TIMES

Signal Thirty-Two - Mackinlay Kantor

Mackinlay Kantor's Famous, High-Voltage Novel Of A Cop Whose Beat Is The Roughest District In The U.S.A. - Spanish Harlem!

BANTAM BOOKS A2029

NEW BANTAM EDITION FEBRUARY 1960 - 2ND PRINTING

(1ST BANTAM PRINTING FEBRUARY 1952)

NEW YORK, USA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE SEPTEMBER 1950

ALSO PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY DOLLAR BOOK CLUB JANUARY 1951

NEW YORK

is the biggest city in the world and the toughest. The men on its police force are all kinds, from those who collect a percentage from the prostitutes and bookies, to the ones who deliver babies in squad cars and pull suicides off the bridges.

SIGNAL THIRTY-TWO

is the story of one man who tried hard to be a good cop in the squalid, stinking slums of New York's Spanish Harlem, where children offer themselves for sale for money to buy heroin, and the switch knife and the zip gun are the toys a boy grows up with.

SWIFT PACED AND STACCATO

REAL AS A SIREN'S SCREAM

-CLEVELAND NEWS

Crash Club - Henry Gregor Felsen

The shocking bestseller about today's daring, defiant hot-rodders 

BANTAM BOOKS A2076

1ST PRINTING FEBRUARY 1960

NEW YORK, USA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE OCTOBER 1958

REVIEWERS HAIL NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF HOT ROD!

"An eye-opener."

WYOMING EAGLE

"Fast-moving story of violence and compulsive intensity."

VIRGINIA KIRKUS SERVICE

"Exciting, dramatically written-concerns boys, their cars and their girls..."

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

"Told in Felsen's pull-no-punches style."

CLEVELAND PRESS

Road Kid (The Dark Adventure) - Howard Pease

Teen-Agers on the Prowl

BANTAM BOOKS 1110

FIRST PRINTING MAY 1953

NEW YORK, USA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY

AS "THE DARK ADVENTURE 1950

IT'S A THRILLER, WITH IMPACT"

says the New York Times of this compelling and dramatic story of high school kids (some of them from our "very best families") on the bum.

"An honest attempt to tell, in a thrilling adventure story, some of the real problems of youth and delinquency-with no punches pulled."

-San Francisco Chronicle

Bus Stop - William Inge

The touching and hilarious story of a footloose torch singer who knew too much about men and a cowboy who didn't know enough about women... 

"an uproarious comedy..." - NEW YORK TIMES

BANTAM BOOKS 1518

FIRST PRINTING AUGUST 1956

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE JUNE 1955

FIRESIDE THEATRE SELECTION PUBLISHED MARCH 1956

COVER PHOTO BY MILTON GREENE

cherie and the cowboy

Cherie was a chanteuse. She said, "I call m'self Cherie. Thass all the name ya need-like Hildegarde. I won a amateur contest down in Joplin, Missouri, and that got me a job in a night club in Kanz City. But working in a night club ain't all roses..."

Bo Decker had his picture taken by Life magazine because he was a champion professional rodeo rider. Bo had heard about women only he'd hardly ever seen one. Bo was a large, beautiful hunk of a 

man-but green as new grass when it came to Cherie.

Bo and Cherie got together when they were stranded at a bus stop one night.

Their story is one of high humor-a mixture of brag, heartache, bluster, and the funniest tough love affair ever put on stage, screen, or between the covers of a book. It is filled with comedy, compassion and tenderness-

"A MEMORABLE ACHIEVEMENT..."

NEW YORK TIMES

Marilyn Monroe stars in the 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope Film

Tomboy - Hal Ellson

A Shocking Novel of Teen-Age Gang Life in the Slums of Manhattan

BANTAM BOOKS 945

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1951

A GRAVE CHALLENGE

"IN HIS NEW NOVEL, Hal Ellson rips aside the words 'juvenile delinquency' and shows the full extent of the horror and tragedy beneath.

"Far more graphic than court records or newspaper reports, his shocking picture of the operation of teen-age gangs exposes one of the major social problems of our large cities. Mr. Ellson's aim is not only to describe the deplorable practices of groups of so-called hoodlums, but to point directly to two of the chief causes of their delinquency: first, always, their appalling home life; second, the maelstrom outside in which they are set adrift-an environment compounded of crime, violence, poverty, insecurity and fear.

"Some readers may feel that the author could have presented his case more persuasively by replacing some of the sensationalism with constructive scenes, but Mr. Ellson seems deliberately to have avoided this method. He takes the whole shocking and brutal story and flings it down as a challenge. There can be no argument, at any rate, as to whom it may concern. It concerns us all."

-reprinted from the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

The Beat Generation - Albert Zugsmith

"The shocking and revealing novel of a generation gone wild based on the sensational MGM motion picture release"

BANTAM BOOKS 1965

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING APRIL 1959

MOVIE TIE-IN

THE BEAT GENERATION

is the searing story of the restless, jaded men and women, with no aim in life except a new sensation-drugs, "way-out" jazz, perverted sex, actual crime.

THE BEAT GENERATION

is especially the story of rich, young Stan Belmont, who had known every thrill. Now his only kick was - rape.

THE BEAT GENERATION

is an MGM release, a spectacular Albert Zugsmith production starring Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, and Louis Armstrong  and his All-Stars.

Here's the big novel

of the restless ones who hop from thrill to thrill, the groovy cats who call themselves Beatniks-try anything for kicks but are never satisfied-

THE BEAT GENERATION 

is their story