Back Alley Jungle - Leo Margulies

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 631

Publishing Year: 1963

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 4'-

Cover Artist:

back alley jungle

TALES OF TODAY'S TERROR

They will shock you,

they will anger you,

they will make you wonder

...and they will scare

the hell out of you!

Read these devastating stories 

of teen-age hoods and tramps

who infest our streets

and schools, terrorize out towns

and turn our cities into a 

back alley jungle

College Confidential - Irving Shulman

A hotbed of scandal erupts on campus when a professor surveys his students' private lives

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 517

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2/6

Cover Artist:

WAS HIS SURVEY STRICTLY SCIENTIFIC?

DID THE PROFESSOR USE HIS OWN APARTMENT TO "STUDY" THE PRIVATE LIVES OF HIS STUDENTS?

COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL

A novel by Irving Shulman

Based on the screenplay Produced and Directed by Albert Zugsmith

A Famous Players Corp. Picture

Released by Universal-International

Starring STEVE ALLEN, JAYNE MEADOWS, WALTER WINCHELL and MAMIE VAN DOREN

 

Run, Chico, Run - Wenzell Brown

 "Sharply violent serious novel . . . of teen-age gangs and narcotic addiction . . ." 

Anthony Boucher -The New York Times

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 335

Publishing Year: 1959

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2'-

Cover Artist:

THEY WERE SPAWNED IN THE SIDESTREETS OF HELL

IN VICE, IN POVERTY, IN DESPAIR they grow to womanhood and to manhood.

Walk northwest from this street sign, and you'll hit the district where they live. Spanish Harlem, a no man's land in neon, where the kids are weaned on reefer's, lead pipes and gang wars. None escape this concrete jungle.

Chico tried. Chico, who found tender love in its back alleys, who knew there was another life beyond the block's squalor and struggled to find it - until Spanish Harlem sucked him back to its depths.

RUN, CHICO, RUN

Shake Him Till He Rattles - Malcolm Braly

Drifting between a very cool girl and a very warm one...A funky, nighttime love story so vivid you can taste it, hear it, feel it...

GOLD MEDAL 695

1ST PRINTING 1964

LONDON, UK

Here is Braly's second novel. It is laid in San Francisco by night, where people, narcotics and jazz flow together and melt into the smoky blue world of North Beach by night...

"Braly has the true attributes of the novelist: he thinks honestly about people, and writes about them with an unstressed absolute realism which exposes most of the toughly 'realistic' writers as naive romantics."

-Anthony Boucher - New York Sunday Times

The Savage Kick - Neil Pritchie

This is the life of Roy Haney, who moves through the wild hipster world of the new amoralists looking for...

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 647

Publishing Year: 1963

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 4'-

Cover Artist:

a stud in samarkand

Peddling cut dope to the beats, blackmailing any welshers, nourishing himself on other men's women...Roy Haney doesn't bleed over a screwed-up world out for itself. Roy wants to hit bottom so he can look for the truth under the slime. Maybe Roy and Ava, his soft-mouthed 19-year-old goddess can make it together. Maybe.

Rockabilly - Harlan Ellison

Stag Preston, idol of millions- whose private life was wilder than any of the songs he sang

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 598

Publishing Year: 1963

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 2'6

Cover Artist:

THIS IS A PICTURE OF HARLAN ELLISON

and Rockabilly is a picture of his world. A world populated by The Hungry Ones - the beautiful women and talented guys who leech off one another - and the populace in general - to make their fast buck. It's a universe in which a kid who knows the angles can become a national institution, where talent doesn't count as much as a good press and a C-note under the table.  The acetate arena where a long-playing bum can sing gibberish and coin a fortune.

Rockabilly is written in the hip, contemporary manner of a brilliant young writer who will shock and amuse you, and who sees beyond the neon glitter of the image merchant's dreamworld.

THIS IS A GOLD MEDAL BOOK