The Blackboard Jungle - Evan Hunter

The frightening best-seller of America's teenage hoodlums that scorches with emotional shocks

Publisher: Panther Books

Number: 685

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: Thirteenth

Cover Price: 3'6

Cover Artist:

This edition has new cover art

A NOVEL THAT HAS BECOME A CLASSIC OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION

A story that savagely exposes a burning problem

"He saw West's fists doubled and hard, saw the animal look that had come on Belazi's face, and again the knife, threatening and sharp. . .The noise grew louder and Rick grasped in his mind for a picture of the Roman arena, tried to to rise, felt pain sear through his right arm. . .He's cut me, he thought with panic. Belazi has cut me. . .THIS IS IT. . .THIS IS REALLY IT."

' I can assure you Spare The Rod is as nothing compared with the description of life in a similar New York school given in The Blackboard Jungle'.

- DAVID HOLLOWAY

Post-Prison Writings And Speeches - Eldridge Cleaver

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SECOND PRINTING 1972 (1971)

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1969

COVER ART BY PAUL MAY

'It may be that not only in America but elsewhere in the world the lines of a new and terrible war are being traced - a racial war in which there will be a holocaust of innocents. At least, after reading Cleaver, we cannot say we do not know what the struggle is about.'

Stuart Hood SPECTATOR

'An essential addendum to Soul On Ice...this new book contains as powerfully seductive a prose as any being written now anywhere in the world...the results are piercing, brilliantly oratorical, poisonously funny, and quotable until the cows come home.'

Clive James NEW SOCIETY

'I plan to be around for quite a while'

Eldridge Cleaver

Protest : The Beat Generation And The Angry Young Men - Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg

Rebels without a cause, they are shocked by nothing - defying society, conventions, the world, the 'beatniks' and the 'angries' speak their minds

PANTHER BOOKS 1075

1ST PRINTING JUNE 1960

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SOUVENIR PRESS 1959

The 'beatniks' and the 'angry young men' are considered the logical spokesmen for our age.

Out of its chaos, they have fashioned some of the most brilliantly dynamic literature of our time.

Rebels without a cause...

*JACK KEROUAC

*COLIN WILSON

*NORMAN MAILER

*JOHN OSBORNE

*JOHN BRAINE

*CLELLON HOLMES

*JOHN WAIN

*KINGSLEY AMIS

The Jury Is Still Out - Irwin D. Davidson and Richard Gehman

"This is a horrifying book, strongly recommended to all who are concerned about crime in young people." -John O'London's

PANTHER BOOKS 1158

1ST PRINTING JANUARY 1961

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PETER DAVIES LTD 1959

A NATION WAS SHOCKED...

and the reader will be shocked by this frightening account of a brutal killing and the sensational murder trial that followed it. The American Press gave detailed-often hysterical-coverage to the trial; now the Judge himself gives the complete story. It is one that contains a sobering thought for all of us.

"This book cannot merely be shrugged off with 'It would not happen here'. Reading it, you get an uneasy feeling that it could."

-Birmingham Mail

The Day Of The Sardine - Sid Chaplin

'A NOVEL WHICH NOBODY SHOULD MISS' - SUNDAY TIMES

PANTHER BOOKS 1895

1ST PRINTING AUGUST 1965

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE 1961

Arthur thinks most people live like sardines and are easily caught. But at sixteen he doesn't want to be packed head to tail, tail to head, into a tin coffin. He wants to be 'Somebody'. He wants to get away from home where his mother has taken up with the lodger, to dress how he wants, to do as he wishes. But being 'Somebody' for Arthur means joining a gang, being a bum, and an adulterer, and eventually, involvement in a murder.

'A FINE FULL-BLOODED NOVEL...RICH, VIVID'

-Sunday Telegraph

Nobody's Brother - C. F. Griffin

HE CRIED OUT IN ANGUISH FOR LOVE...BUT FOUND ONLY LONELINESS TO LIVE AND DIE WITH

PANTHER BOOKS 1544

1ST PRINTING JULY 1963

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY BARRIE & ROCKLIFFE 1960

If you're a slum kid you've got to be tough to survive, and Kenny is tough-on the surface. But his adolescence is a desperate struggle against a growing physical affliction. He suffers the nightmare of rejection, even by his 'hero' Dan, who has his own torments, a shameful obsession indulged only behind locked doors and with a girl friend who is a prostitute.

It is these dark secrets that lead to Kenny's final solitary act of horrifying destruction.

'DYNAMITE'

-N.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE

The Blackboard Jungle - Evan Hunter

PANTHER BOOKS 685

2ND PRINTING 1957 (1ST PRINTING ALSO 1957)

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO 1955

COVER ART BY WEBB

MOVIE TIE-IN

West stood an inch shorter than Rick, squirming to release himself.

Rick's hand crushed tighter on the collar. He peered into the hateful eyes and spoke quietly. "Pronounce my name correctly, West."

The Class had grown terribly quiet.

"You want me to pronounce your name, sir?" West asked politely.

"You heard me."

"- you, Mr. Daffy..."

Rick's hand lashed out, slapping West squarely across the mouth....And then the knife snapped into view, sudden and terrifying. Long and shining, it caught the pale sunlight that slanted through the long schoolroom windows.

Thumb Tripping - Don Mitchell

A dazzling novel of the American Road in the tradition of Jack Kerouac and Easy Rider

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1st PRINTING 1972

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1971

A Road Odyssey

California. Summer. A young man and a beautiful girl, hitch-hiking along the coast. A time of sunshine, sleeping out in a shared sleeping bag, making love in the open air. A time to get high - on scenery, on each other, on pot. But sometimes things get out of hand. A lift from a queer warlock becomes an excruciating experience of sexual embarrassment...a burly truck driver out of his skull on speed gets horny for the girl...a lift from a clean-living all-American family turns into a nightmare alcoholic binge...and that's not all. Not by a long way....

Funny and terrifying by turns, Don Mitchell's award-winning novel (soon to be a major movie) is one of the most entertaining and thoughtful pieces of writing to come out of the new youth scene.

Halfway Down The Stairs - Charles Thompson

Ann, a product of the beat generation; boldly curious about life, love and her search for excitement in the turbulence of college days

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1ST PRINTING SEPTEMBER 1959

LONDON, UK 

ANN...BOLDLY CURIOUS ABOUT LIFE AND LOVE

Ann Carlin is surely one of the most astonishing heroines in recent fiction-a creature at once perverse and pitiful, innocent and depraved. The story of her relationship with Dave Pope gives meaning to their curious college days, when the rage was for new music, old cars and sex...

As sensitive as Fitzgerald and as outspoken as O'Hara, Charles Thompson's novel sets a new standard for literature about the Beat Generation.

Arfur Teenage Pinball Queen - Nik Cohn

A Novel by Nik Cohn the author of Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom

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1ST PRINTING 1973

ST ALBANS, HERTS, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 1970

Down in bull**** alley

I believe that we are clean

Me and my friend Arfur

Teenage Pinball Queen

Live Clean, Think Clean, Shoot Clean Pinball-

that's Arfur's motto.

When she was ten she fell through a funfair mirror into a new world of honky tonk, labyrinths, neon, freeways, hamburger heavens, where pinball was played in a thousand secret places. Whatever else happened-pinball remained.

The Gods Of Our Time - Cothburn O'Neal

With Rusty it was always another fix...another woman

PANTHER BOOKS 

FIRST PRINTING JANUARY 1964

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY GIBBS & PHILLIPS 1962

"Oh, Rusty," she said. "Rusty, baby". She relaxed her grip and struggled to get her arms around my neck. I lifted her clear of the floor as my mouth found hers. Her lips were open, her tongue sweet and busy. 

"Hm-m-m," she moaned and pulled away slowly after long contact. She said "Now, Rusty, now!"

Rusty Meaghan had been a successful sportsman in college and was a talented musician. But suddenly he went on a mental bender in a 'beat' world of drugs, orgiastic parties, promiscuity-and tragedy.

*The publishers number is unreadable on my copy of this book.

Marilyn Monroe - Maurice Zolotow

"Astonishingly intimate...shockingly frank" -N.Y.JNL. AMERICAN

PANTHER BOOKS 1327

FIRST PANTHER EDITION FEBRUARY 1962

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY W.H.ALLEN 1961

"REALISTIC, SHOCKINGLY FRANK...DOES NOT SPARE ITS SUBJECT THE TELLING OF HER UTMOST INTIMACIES"

-San Francisco Examiner

A girl-plain, born out of wedlock, violated as a child...

A woman-beautiful, internationally famous, acknowledged as an accomplished actress...

What possible connection could there be between these two? In this fascinating and compelling book, Maurice Zolotow, who spent six years finding out, provides the answers....

The Warriors - Sol Yurick

PANTHER BOOKS 2218

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING 1967

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY W.H. ALLEN LIMITED 1966

WAR ON A CITY

'Shocker is a favourite word used about books. This is one that truly merits it. It's West Side Story and then some. And nobody's singing I Feel Pretty...

Yurick isn't just concerned with crude violence. He really digs deep into the customs and conventions of these kids at war with the adult world.'

- Alan Forrest, SUNDAY CITIZEN

'The Warriors is the story of youthful delinquency to end all such tales. Nothing is left to the imagination-And the imagination boggles'

- Liverpool Daily Post

'The best novel of it's kind I've read, an altogether perfect achievement. I'm sure that to many it will sound like sacrilege but I have to say that I think it a better novel than LORD OF THE FLIES'

- Warren Miller

In the Bronx, eight boys, long sideburns and crew-cut tops, thick sweaters despite the heat, and sneering looks on their murderous Irish faces, mounted the crosstown bus. The driver felt the back of his neck turn to ice.

July 4th, American Independence Day

The teenage gangs - white, Puerto Rican, Negro...

17-year-old youths juggling with snake-coiled bicycle chains, 15-year-old girl friends nursing knives in their pockets - declare a truce to their interminable warfare and stream out from the appalling slums into downtown New York. The snobs are going to be given a rumble. So begins, as rockets soar into the sky to explode into shimmering American flags, a night of madness, orgy, and murder. The reader will certainly finish THE WARRIORS awestruck on a new, unbelievable level of awareness.