Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs of California

PENGUIN BOOKS 2801

1ST PRINTING 1967

LONDON, UK

COVER PHOTO BY CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

They shoot the hillcrest like a burst of dirty thunder, shoulder-length hair streaming from Cro-magnon faces, swastikas jangling, filthy death's-head-emblazoned denims cracking in the wind-the Hell's Angels are out on a run, and America's West Coast cowers in loathing...

Gang rape, pillage, murder...recent press reports of the Angels read like a plot-synopsis of a thriller-writer's worst dreams. Hunter Thompson found the reality different-but still disturbing. Here, with Rabelasian gusto, he tells of his experiences with Little Jesus, Charger Charlie the Child Molester, Big Frank ('You don't really jerk the eyeball, you just sorta spring it so it pops outa the socket') and a host of others. This is the inner truth of a phenomenon which relegates our Rockers to the nursery.

Hashish - Henry De Monfreid

PENGUIN BOOKS 527

1ST PRINTING 1949

FIRST PUBLISHED IN FRANCE AS 'LA CROISIERE DU HACHICH'

THIS TRANSLATION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1935

Penguin Modern Poets 5 - Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg

PENGUIN BOOKS D78

1ST PRINTING 1963

MIDDLESEX, UK

COVER ART BY ROGER MAYNE

This series is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing some thirty poems by each of three modern poets in a single volume. In each case the selection is made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form, Penguin Modern Poets 1, 2, 3, and 4, have already appeared and further volumes are in preparation.

Blood In My Eye - George Jackson

PENGUIN BOOKS 01400.38787

MIDDLESEX, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1975

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1972

COVER PHOTO BY PAUL POPPER LTD

George Jackson completed the manuscript of Blood in my Eye just a few days before he was shot and killed while, it is alleged, attempting to escape from the maximum-security prison at San Quentin. His story became known to millions with the publication of Soledad Brother.

Blood in my Eye takes up where Soledad Brother left off - it is a devastating and passionate critique of American society and a programme for destruction.

'Whether or not George Jackson's analysis proves prophetic, the power and despairing clarity of his writing makes him one of the great voices of the American Left.'

- Sunday Times