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Wednesday 5 April 2017

Somebody In Boots - Nelson Algren

THE AUTHOR OF MAN WITH A GOLDEN ARM


MAYFLOWER DELL 8110
1ST PRINTING 1964
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO

Nelson Algren's SOMEBODY IN BOOTS is a great achievement in sustained realism. His hero, Cass McKay, in flight from the brutalities of a home he hated, wanders across America, jumping trains, trying to survive amidst the submerged tenth, finally, in the Chicago his author knows so well, fighting desperately for happiness with the girl he loved against all the savage chaos of an indifferent society.

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Daughter Oh My Daughter - Mildred Mesurac Jeffrey

An absorbing novel. Nothing since 'The Blackboard Jungle' has so stirred the reality of life in New York's slumland.

Vintage Paperbacks - Juvenile Delinquents

MAYFLOWER DELL 1670
FIRST PRINTING MAY 1966
LONDON, UK

The Girl...Natividad-Puerto Rican, black-eyed, feline, sensitive, savage; but loyal.

The Boy...Jose, teenage gang-leader-He wanted her for her budding breasts, and her sleek black hair. But most of all to win a five dollar bet.

The Mother...A prostitute-She wanted her daughter to learn the same trade and there-by increase the family income.

The Teacher...had learned to walk through the slum canyons, but she could not blind herself to the misery and violence in her own classroom.

An absorbing, colourful novel 'Intensely Dramatic'

Saturday 24 January 2015

The Beatles in Help! - Al Hine

"The story of the Beatles new comedy in colour - Released by United Artists - Fully Illustrated"


MAYFLOWER DELL 0486
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING AUGUST 1965

THE
BEATLES
in
HELP!
also starring
LEO McKERN
ELEANOR BRON
VICTOR SPINETTI ROY KINNEAR
Produced by WALTER SHENSON
Screenplay by
MARC BEHM and CHARLES WOOD
Story by MARC BEHM
Directed by RICHARD LESTER
A Walter Shenson-Subafilms Production
Eastmancolor United Artists release

Tuesday 30 December 2014

Dead Respectable - Desmond Reid

"Chelsea: beats and debs in clubs and pads..."


MAYFLOWER DELL 1713-8
SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY (5TH SERIES) NO.34
1ST PRINTING 1967
LONDON, UK 

To the worried American father the plea was simple - "Find my missing son in London."
To Blake it seemed at first a routine assignment, then the straight road of investigation took strange turnings. There were the cases of the murdered tramps, and the outbreak of suicides amongst university students...
It wasn't easy to find the truth amongst the Chelsea 'set' of S.W.3., where the trail started. Instead, Blake and his assistant found a fantasy world of pseudo-artists and their models; probed a dope-ring; met a white haired young man with a strange philosophy, and a doctor with a stranger practice.
Death and gang-violence joined their search before the riddle of the vanished American student was solved to Blake's satisfaction - if not to that of the police.