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

Come Back On Monday - Sheila Solomon Klass

Raped as a child, daughter of a prostitute..the streets were her home

FOUR SQUARE 1411

1ST PRINTING JANUARY 1966

LONDON, UK

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ABELARD-SCHUMANN 1960

She was fourteen, more child than woman, but this had not mattered to the bum, two years ago, who had grabbed her in the dark, filthy hall of the tenement, pushed her down the cold stone floor and raped her there amid the garbage and ashes. She had fought him, kicking and biting at the greedy, shaking hands that tore at her...fought him until he punched her so hard that she tasted warm blood oozing from where a front tooth had been. From him she got a panting testamonial in the ashy darkness, 'You'll be better'n your old lady in a coupla years, kid-better'n your old lady.'

Was it too late now to save her-from the 'Ebony Deb' gang of delinquent girls; from her family who wanted her to be sent to work; from the teachers who, with their narrow-minded discipline, were more concerned about keeping order in the hall-ways than about a miscarriage in the class-room; from the young men who sought her for their own designs?

The Leather Boys - Eliot George

They didn't have to look for trouble- they made it

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 813

1ST PRINTING 1963

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANTHONY BLOND 1961

MOVIE TIE-IN

The boys on the bikes.

The boys who do a ton on the by-pass.

Aimless, lawless, sometimes cowardly and vain, they spend a packet on their clothes and hair-styles.

Working-class boys with big wages, and nothing much to do with their money.

This is the story of two of them, Dick and Reggie.

Reggie was the married one-he was only seventeen when he got tied up and just didn't know what it was all about. He left his wife and went to stay with Dick, and the relationship that developed between them was just too hot to handle.

This is a book with a vicious kick to it. Here are the problems of delinquent youth which growl and grumble under the facade of our society, threatening to blow it sky-high. You have read about these boys in the newspapers; this book takes you right there with them; under their leather jackets-under their skins.

The Mysterious Pregnancy - Nigel Heseltine

SHE FOUND CONTENTMENT ONLY AFTER A PLUNGE INTO THE HEADY LIFE OF PARIS

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1048

1ST PRINTING 1964

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1953

For Lu Rienzi time is running out.

Somewhere in Paris is her lover-the father of her unborn baby.

If she fails to find him in time then she must find a doctor to get her out of trouble.

What she does find is the beat half-world of Paris, with its crazy values and shameless indifference to conventional morality.

Drawn irresistibly into this new existentialism Lu begins to see her problem in a new light, and her life starts on a new course.

Read on...the book is witty, brilliant and full of refreshing sophistication.

It's A Swinging Life - Johannes Allen

NEL FOUR SQUARE 2137

FIRST PRINTING MAY 1968

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE HOGARTH PRESS 1966

Copenhagen. A city of bars, brothels and the good life. For some, a life bordering on the hysteria, boredom and spiritual bankruptcy. Martin Finch, an aspiring writer, returns to this. Here is Fritz, the old friend who runs an unsuccessful literary magazine. Here is Frank, Anita's smooth and heartless lover. Finally, here is Lulu, who becomes Martin's mistress.

The brittle, feverish surface of life is shattered when Anita takes a trip too many and commits suicide, and martin releases upon Frank al his pent-up fury and frustration.

A successor to the best-selling YOUNG LOVE, this is a vital novel of today, epitomizing the younger generation's moral and social dilemma.

Baron's Court, All Change - Terry Taylor

A young man's diary about London....the darker side of London....

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1231

FIRST FOUR SQUARE EDITION 1965

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY MACGIBBON & KEE 1961

'The place where I live is called Greater London. To get to the London which isn't so great you have to board a tube train which goes on a twenty minute journey above ground till you come to a station called Baron's Court...At that point, where the train first goes into the tunnel, you are leaving Greater London, where the natives starve themselves to buy a new car...and enter the manor of the real London'.

The hero of this novel, a shocking engaging teenage refugee from Greater London, recounts his experiences of the real London. Here he joins a Spiritualist group where he finds a woman who supervises his initiation into more earthly mysteries. A meeting in a jazz club leads him into partnership with a dope peddlar. From then on things begin to move fast-too fast...

Myself and I - Constance A. Newland

Here is the intimate and completely frank record of one woman's courageous experiment with psychiatry's newest drug LSD 25

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1261 

FIRST FOUR SQUARE EDITION 1965

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY FREDERICK MULLER LTD 1963

LSD 25

'I travelled deep into the buried regions of the mind. I discovered that in addition to being consciously a loving mother and respectable citizen I was unconsciously a murderess, a pervert, a cannibal, a sadist and a masochist. But in the wake of these dread discoveries I lost my fears and achieved complete sexual fulfilment.' With unsparing honesty, Mrs. Newland presents a minute by minute account of her penetration into the still uncharted regions of the unknown. She reveals how she purged, under the influence of the powerful psycho-chemical LSD 25, the depths of human negativity. Examines her overcoming of the baffling problems of frigidity in a liberally-educated woman...recounts her weird fantasies and inexplicable nightmares. This terrifying but often admiring journey is reported with incredible candour.

The Scene - Clarence L. Cooper

"A shattering, uncompromising novel of drug addicts"

FOUR SQUARE 1524

FIRST PRINTING AUGUST 1966

FIRST PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ANTHONY BLOND LIMITED 1960

Sometimes with raw brutality, always with compassion, this uncompromising novel sweeps the labyrinth of pushers and prostitutes, the police ready to spring on The Man who controls the entire dope operation, to reveal the half-world of drugs, known as the Scene.

It is a world where sensibilities are tuned to heights as well as depths, as in the hauntingly moving affair between Andy Hodden and Taylor Mayo. A world of conflict in which men are tested to their fullest, as in the searchingly described characterisations of the two competing detectives of the Narcotics Squad. A world that reaches into the very core of society: the police, the courts, industry, the rich and the poor - none are immune from the infection of the Scene.

Only someone who himself has been an addict, as the author was, could describe so unforgettably 'the panic', the time of no dope, and portray withdrawal so convincingly. 'The Scene' is an important, gripping novel about a side of life that should not be ignored.

The Deadly Sex - Jack Webb

"They were invincible and they knew it...until they killed a cop"

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 381

LONDON, UK

1ST FOUR SQUARE EDITION 1961

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY T.V. BOARDMAN 1960

COVER ART BY MURTEL MANS

There were three of them. Trouble hung over them like a cloud. But trouble was their business.

As they passed the four young men sitting in the booth the last man, a young giant with about as much muscle as a heavy lorry, tripped over an out-thrust toe.

It could have been deliberate. It could have been an accident.

It made no difference. The giant's left hand shot out and grabbed a fistful of leather jacket. Without effort he lifted the struggling young punk off his seat, smashed him in the face with a hard-cutting right and threw him away.

They were trouble. Trouble for Laura, trouble for the police, trouble for anybody who got in their way. Trouble with a capitol T.

Dope International - Charles Wighton

"The greatest criminal conspiracy and the "Merchants of Death" who plan it"

FOUR SQUARE BOOKS 1145

LONDON, UK

1ST FOUR SQUARE EDITION1964

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY FREDERICK MULLER 1960

From the top-secret files of the counter-narcotics secret service. From personal accounts of those who wage the nonstop cloak and dagger fight against the "ring". Charles Wighton has uncovered the story of the crime which uses all the weapons in the underworld to keep its secrets. Murders, bribery, corruption in high places - the powerful dope ring uses no half-measures. "Sami" el Khoury of Beirut; Luciano, the ageing boss of teh Italian Mafia; "Gino" Messina with his London tie-up; Mondoloni, the Corsican chieftain who held up and robbed the Begum Aga Khan; and the multi-millionaire Vito Genovese, "President of the American Crime Corporation", imprisoned for 15 years for dope trafficking. All these men are the "Merchants of Death" and their network extends over the whole world. Only one question still remains...the key question..."Who is the Boss?" Is he in America, the Middle East, France, Switzerland or...England?