Showing posts with label Popular Library. Show all posts
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Friday 14 April 2017

Cry, Brother, Cry - Jack Karney

A Novel Of Delinquents And Mobsters In The Making


POPULAR LIBRARY EAGLE BOOKS EDITION G304
1ST PRINTING JANUARY 1959
NEW YORK, USA

VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS

Brawling in the streets...making love in dark hallways...snitching the luxuries they crave...the tough juveniles of New York's Lower East Side know only one way to get back at the sordid world that spawned them-by organized violence.

This is the wallop-packing story of one teen-age gang leader who made the easy shift from switch-blades to guns, from street rumbles to organized violence and vice...Until the jobs he pulled off for the city's top crime organization became too dirty for even corrupt cops to take.

Monday 20 March 2017

The Losers - Clifford Irving

A REALISTIC NOVEL OF YOUTH IN REVOLT

Poular Library

POPULAR LIBRARY GIANT G311
FIRST PRINTING FEBRUARY 1959
NEW YORK, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY COWARD-MCCANN OCTOBER 1957

THRILL CRAZED

This tense novel explores the inside-out world of those desperate youngsters who try every experiment to fill up their empty, thrill-crazed lives.

It's the deeply personal story of Dave Stern and Charlie Hall, two talented New York career boys, and the girls they exchanged for one mad week in Greenwich Village.

For one emotional risk led to others more reckless-until only violence could straighten out their tangled lives.

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Hooked (Narcotics: America's Peril) - Will Oursler and Laurence Dwight Smith

The Brutal Truth About Dope And Crime


POPULAR LIBRARY 528
FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1953
NEW YORK, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY 1952 
UNDER THE TITLE NARCOTICS: AMERICA'S PERIL

DOCUMENTARY THRILLER

"This book is a documentary set down with the drama and pace of a thriller. Its villains are drug peddlers at home and abroad, its heroes the Federal agents who wage a ceaseless war against them."
Buffalo NEWS

In boxes labeled "machinery," in secret rooms of ocean liners, in bandages, brassieres and hollow crutches, dope worth millions crosses American borders. School girls prostitute themselves for a "fix," honest men turn gunmen to support "the habit" -while "pushers" prosper in a deadly racket.

Can America survive the international dope conspiracy? Here is the answer in a challenging, courageous book that sounds the battle cry against the underworld.

Monday 9 May 2016

The Tough Ones - Whit and Hallie Burnett

Stories of life in the raw by NORMAN MAILER, ROBERT PAYNE, STUART CLOETE and many other world-famous authors


POPULAR LIBRARY (GIANT) G352
NEW YORK, USA
FIRST PRINTING JULY 1959

EMOTIONAL UNDERWORLD

In each of these masterpieces of realistic fiction you'll meet people whose lives were violently wrenched from the conventional pattern:

Wives with too much time on their hands...
and husbands with other men's wives on
their minds. Sensible women suddenly
gone native in the tropics...and proper
young girls trying to grow up too fast.

Each of these stories carries its unique impact. Together they provide an unforgettable journey through the underworld of human emotions.

Tuesday 10 February 2015

The Girl In The Spike-Heeled Shoes - Martin Yoseloff

"All The Boys Had Maybelle's Number"


POPULAR LIBRARY 573
TORONTO, CANADA
FIRST PRINTING APRIL 1954
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY E.P. DUTTON JULY 1949

SHE'D SHOW THEM!

When Maybelle Reardon came to Kenyon High that morning the boys looked at her queerly and the other girls ignored her completely. She knew that Dennis Morrisey had told.

But what had happened in her room yesterday had been Dennis' fault. How could they blame her? All right, she decided angrily. The next time it would be her own fault. She'd give this town something to really talk about!

"The author avoids bawdiness in a story that is essentially sexy and comes up with a tale that moves his readers to compassion for his fictional heroine."
- Atlanta CONSTITUTION

Sunday 8 February 2015

The Butchers - Leonard Bishop

"They Lived And Loved By The Law Of The Streets"


POPULAR LIBRARY SP11
NEW YORK, USA
FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1957
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS JULY 1956
COVER ART BY HOOKS

"TIMELY...POWERFUL...TRUE!"
-Dallas TIMES-HERALD

The frank, realistic story of a teen-age gutter-scrapper, who learned all he knew about life in the sordid streets and tenements of New York's Lower East Side.

It is also the story of three girls - a downtown floozie, an uptown fancy girl, and one decent woman - for whom he slugged his way out of the slums and broke the deadly hold of the Syndicate that owned him, body and soul.

"FURIOUSLY ALIVE"-New York HERALD TRIBUNE
"POWERFULLY, RELENTLESSLY WRITTEN"-Chicago SUN-TIMES
"TOUGH AND TENDER"-Washington POST & TIMES HERALD
"PASSION AND COMPASSION"-Bridgeport POST