Exterminator - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: o 552 10222 9

Publishing Year: 1976

Printing: First

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In dingy hotel rooms, in public places, in ordinary peoples' houses, the exterminator goes about his business: his quarry is vermin, the vermin of society. . .

Moving in space and time between the society we know, and the edge of another galaxy light years away, this savage study of violence, hypocrisy and the abuse of power is at once tragic and comic, satirical and pathetic. William Burroughs has created an incredible nightmare world, peopled by junkies, pimps, quack doctors and green adolescents - weird and disturbing characters like the Lemon Kid, basic J. Audrey the homosexual. . .and the EXTERMINATOR himself. . .

The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs

A Book of the Dead

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 0 552 09396 3

Publishing Year: 1973

Printing: First

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The year is 1988. Adolescent guerilla packs of specialised humanoids are routing the forces of civilised nations and ravaging the earth. From their small beginnings in 1969 as petrol gangs, dousing their victims with petrol and setting them on fire for kicks, they have grown to an army, dedicated to violence and death. When wholesale slaughter erupts, the battle continues underground where the survivors evolve into The Wild Boys, hordes of pitiless homosexual warriors who move in and destroy the cities - until civilisation collapses, revealing a future of horrifying dimensions. . .

The Ticket That Exploded - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 0 552 08617 7

Publishing Year: 1971

Printing: First

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THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED

utilises William Burroughs's now famous fold-in-method to give a fragmented and many-sided vision of modern reality. The result is at once an original work of fiction, an intensely poetical novel and a political and morale fable. the author's preoccupation is with the plethora of forces in the world that attempt to excercise 'conrol', and his fantastic imagination once again weaves extraordinary images and ideas into a world that is both personal and universal.

The authoR of THE NAKED LUNCH and THE SOFT MACHINE has now written a book that will take its place among the classics of our time.

The Soft Machine - William Burroughs

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: 552 08465 4

Publishing Year: 1970

Printing: First

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THE SOFT MACHINE

is the immediate successor to 'The Naked Lunch', a book which has, in a short time, established itself as one of the key works of post-war literature.

The author's principal preoccupations are still the juxtaposition of good and evil, human passion and sensuality and the power of the machine, the struggle of conflicting forces to control human environment; and with the awareness that nightmares have their counterparts in real life.

This is not a book for the casual reader; nor is it for the squeamish. the serious reader, however, will find a technical mastery, a courage with experimentation and a scientific eye for the new literary research that is unparalleled in modern writing.

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

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

13 West Street - Leigh Brackett

I THOUGHT THEY WERE JUST NICE KIDS - BUT THEY MARKED ME FOR LIFE AND I SWORE I'D LIVE TO HUNT THEM DOWN. NOW AN EXCITING MOTION PICTURE

Publisher: Corgi Books

Number: SC1184

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing:  (Movie Tie-In)

Cover Price: 2'6

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TIGER

I didn't know who they were or what they wanted when they came out of the night. They looked like nice enough kids from nice enough families, but they turned into bloodthirsty tigers and nearly killed me-FOR FUN!

They marked my body with their blows, they marked my soul with hatred. I had to find them, but the police couldn't help me, my wife begged me to forget, the kids themselves sent a message to quit-OR DIE!

But nothing could stop me, for now I was a tiger, too, a tiger who hunted by night-AND BY DAY!

13 WEST STREET

A LADD ENTERPRISES PRODUCTION FOR COLUMBIA PICTURES, SATRRING ALAN LADD AND ROD STEIGER. PRODUCED BY WILLIAM BLOOM AND DIRECTED BY PHILIP LEACOCK

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

No Trees In The Street - Charles Hatton

CORGI BOOKS S627

CORGI BOOKS SN1076

LONDON, UK

SECOND PRINTING 1959

THIRD PRINTING 1959

MOVIE TIE-IN

BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY BY TED WILLIS

WITH 16-PAGES OF PHOTOS FROM THE FILM

Her name was Hetty. She was the best of the bunch, they said. Wilkie had his eye on her. That proved it, for Wilkie was tough and he had money and he only went for the best.

At first nobody could understand why Hetty turned him down. The one day things were different. "Ah," they said, "she's come to her senses..."

Pick-Up Girl - Elsa Shelley

 An angry and provocative novel which probes the greatest social evil of our age

CORGI BOOKS SN755

LONDON, UK

1ST PUBLICATION 1959

COVER ART BY RICHARDS

ELIZABETH COLLINS IS 15

To look at she is little different from any other girl of her age. Pretty, golden-haired, with a maturing, already beautiful figure, she has a happy life, marriage, womanhood ahead of her - OR HAS SHE?

Here in this unforgettable novel, the private dream-world of a teenage girl is brought to vivid and revealing light ... and two vital questions are posed ...

WHY does a good kid like Elizabeth become a pick-up girl?

Who is to blame?

Road Kids - Bud Clifton

This is today's beat generation - thrill-crazy kids living for kicks, for girls and for speed...

CORGI BOOKS SN931

1ST CORGI EDITION 1960

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE UK AS "THE POWER GODS" BY EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE 1958

TOP SPEED TEENAGERS

Here is a high octane story of speed, love and violence with the road kids of America.

Share thrill for thrill with the tough leather-jacketed teenagers who ride death for kicks along the 100-mile-an-hour highways of Nevada.

Second Ending - Evan Hunter

THE SEARING NOVEL OF DOPE ADDICTS BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE

CORGI G489

1st PRINTING 1957

LONDON, UK

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO 1956

Heroin

Andy Silvera played trumpet in a small band. He was more than good-he was genius. 

But Andy started looking for kicks. It was small-time stuff at first - just benzedrine....

But soon Andy went on - to marijuana, and then to the killer drug - 

HEROIN

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous

'No one can read this book without crying for the young who find the world we have built too much to bear.' - Sunday Mirror

CORGI BOOKS 0 552 09332 7

2ND PRINTING 1974 (1973)

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY EYRE METHUEN 1972

YOU CAN'T ASK ALICE ANYTHING ANYMORE.

BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING-READ HER DIARY. STRONG, PAINFULLY HONEST, CANDID. THE ACTUAL STORY OF A DESPERATE GIRL ON DRUGS AND ON THE RUN WHO ALMOST MADE IT.

"Go Ask Alice is a very frightening book-not because it is a story of how drugs can kill, but because it offers an insight, of remarkable naive force, into a style of life...because it is one person's story...because Alice was a born writer, with a natural gift of language and observation. It's not an enjoyable book but it is short and powerful-and dangerous-not for children."

Ray Gosling, The Times

"It shows the complexity of modern life, the awful pressures which plague even the 15-year-old who needs all her energies to cope with growing, it shows the realities of the much-discussed generation gap, the isolation of one who wanders off the track and, alone, finds it impossible to fight her way back."

The Guardian

"Everyone who reads it must ask that most agonising of all questions: 'Can it be that love is not enough?'"

Sunday Mirror

Kill Me A Priest - John Farrimond

CORGI BOOKS GN7555

1ST PRINTING 1966

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY GEORGE G. HARRAP 1965

KILL ME A PRIEST, BENNY BUCKEL!

Maxie was tough. Maxie was big-and cunning-and Maxie's gang was the best, the strongest, and the the most vicious on the street.

Benny didn't care what he did to get into Maxie's mob-anything at all, and he waited for Maxie-Maxie who was God-to decide.

'You want to join me, Benny? You want to get in the Mob? So what I want is for you to rub out the priest. Go kill me a priest, Benny Buckel.'

Too Far To Walk - John Hersey

THE TURNED-ON NOVEL OF THE L.S.D. GENERATION

"The sequel to LORD OF THE FLIES and THE CATCHER IN THE RYE"

THE NEW YORK TIMES

CORGI BOOKS 552 08001 2

1st PRINTING 1968

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HAMISH HAMILTON 1966

Written by one of the major writers of our time, this is a novel about the new generation. The boys and girls who have everything, and nothing; who have tried it all-and still want more. It is a novel of lives filled with a new kind of desperation, and of kicks that mount to the greatest, most dangerous kick of all-a searing trip straight to heaven...or hell!

Out Of The Burning - Ira Henry Freeman

THE SENSATIONAL, TRUE STORY OF FRENCHY, A TEEN-AGE GANGLEADER IN THE SLUMS OF BROOKLYN

CORGI BOOKS GG955

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING IN GREAT BRITAIN 1961

TORN SAVAGELY OUT OF THE SORDID BROOKLYN SLUMS, THIS IS THE EXPLOSIVE STORY OF FRENCHY JOYEAUX - GANG LEADER....

BRUTAL

Street fights, muggings, beatings, zip guns....

TENDER

When kids, even in this uncompromising world, manage to fall hopelessly in love....

SHOCKING

Junkies, cellar club orgies and pathetic child prostitutes....

INSPIRING

Because sometimes - out of the burning - one kid climbs towards a new future.

BIG M-G-M FILM coming soon!

"Reeks with squalor and ends in triumph. An astonishing, important, inspiring book."

New York Herald Tribune

The Changeling - Robin Jenkins

POWERFUL...

PROVOCATIVE...

With probing insight and complete honesty a major novelist explores the forces that drive a slum kid towards his final, terrible destiny.

CORGI BOOKS SN897

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1960

COVER ART BY RICHARDS

THE CHANGELING

The challenging, provocative story of a teen-age boy from the Glasgow slums, and the well-meaning schoolmaster whose attempts to rescue the boy from his sordid background ends in disaster.

Quadrophenia - Alan Fletcher

A GREAT ROCK ALBUM • NOW A STUNNING FILM

CORGI 0 552 11183 X

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1979

MOVIE TIE-IN

REMEMBER THE MODS?

This is the novel behind the WHO's conceptual rock album "QUADROPHENIA", the story of the mods and rockers of the early sixties, now a stunning new film.

QUADROPHENIA

They were dedicated to fashion, music and pills. They created the 'Style', followed the WHO, the SMALL FACES and the STONES, rode polished Lambrettas and assembled in their thousands to fight.

By 1964, the year of the Brighton riots, the mods had revolutionised a whole generation...

The Who Films present

A Curbishley-Baird Production

"QUADROPHENIA"

Musical Directors:PETE TOWNSEND, ROGER DALTREY, JOHN ENTWISTLE, KEITH MOON

Screenplay by DAVE HUMPHRIES, MARTIN STELLMAN and FRANC RODDAM

Produced by ROGER BAIRD and ROY CURBISHLEY

Directed by FRANC RODDAM

A Polytel Film, Executive producer

DAVID GIDEON THOMSON

Undercover Agent-Narcotics - Derek Agnew

"From the secret files of Interpol and from Police records in many countries"

CORGI BOOKS GG965

LONDON, UK

1ST CORGI PRINTING 1961

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SOUVENIR PRESS 1959

COVER ART BY RICHARDS

THE WHITE STUFF...

heroin, morphine, cocaine

AND THE WEEDS

marijuana, hashish...

These are the narcotics, the killer drugs on which addicts in the United States alone spend more than £100,000,000 every year-with a profit to the traffickers of 10,000 per cent!

UNDERCOVER AGENT-NARCOTICS

tells the thrilling story of a lonely, desperate battle against the operators who sell thrills, stimulants and...death...to their human prey.

WITH 8 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS