The Power Gods - Bud Clifton

A gang of young punks with a mania for speed and sex

PYRAMID BOOKS G410

1ST PRINTING MAY 1959

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY LOU MARCHETTI

GANG GIRL

She had never been in a convertible before, let alone driven one. It was a big yellow Buick and racing it up to seventy-five on the open Nevada roads excited her so much she began to giggle. She was eighteen. And she had stolen the car.

She slowed down. She didn't want some cop to pick her up for speeding. She'd just pulled a job-a big one-and she had to get back to the boys. They didn't know it, but those kids with their black leather jackets and goggles and motorcycles were sitting ducks. They might think they were doing her a favor, letting her hang around, loving her up. But Bella had other ideas. Big-time ideas. And this gang of speed-mad, sex-mad young punks was due for a shattering surprise.

Teen-Age Vice - Courtney Ryley Cooper

This book exposes: The Vice Racket, Dope Addiction, Juke Joint Binges, Cabins For The Night, Prisons That Pervert, The Smut Peddlers, Lonely Hearts Clubs

PYRAMID BOOKS G43

1st PRINTING 1952

NEW YORK, USA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY LITTLE, BROWN & CO MARCH 1939 AS 'DESIGNS IN SCARLET'

JAILBAIT!

They hold orgies in cellar clubs, go on juke joint binges and motel "honeymoons." They get hopped up on liquor and dope, then rob and rape and murder. They are the young people under 21 who commit more than half the major crimes in the U.S.A.

What makes them do it? Who is to blame? Courtney Ryley Cooper gives you the grim and tragic answers in this brilliant and blistering expose of teen-age vice.

This book is a harsh dose, but a vitally necessary one. It was not written for children, morons, or sensation seekers-but only for the purpose of giving you the facts. If you are squeamish and choose to ignore them-even while the teen-age trouble in your town is running wild-then this book is not for you!

The Wanton Boys - Mark Oliver

A shattering novel about Italian street gangs, their hates, lusts and perverse and brutal ways in a world that scorns and damns them

PYRAMID BOOKS G567

1ST PRINTING DECEMBER 1960

NEW YORK, USA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY & CO 

COVER ART BY TONY KOKINOS

The Wanton Boys is a brutally realistic story of Pasquale Rossano, a young boy, who ran away from the fishing village he grew up in. He joined other street urchins in Naples where they sought love, a little food and warmth and where they tried to find a place in the sun of life.

These urchins were scorned, fore-doomed and damned by the world to a living hell of a bat-filled, rat-infested, diseased-filled existence. They learned cruel lessons that only the young must learn when adult life is thrust upon them. They learned the bestiality of animal lust and forbidden passion from prostitutes and homosexuals; they found that they were less than human and that the poor, the starving and the weak have no place in life.

This is every wayward youth's story-an unflinching, true-to-life, memorable novel that you will not soon forget.

Prison Girl - Wenzell Brown

story of a woman behind bars

PYRAMID BOOKS G345
FIRST PRINTING 1958
NEW YORK, USA
COVER ART BY BOB MAGUIRE

The secret sounds of women deprived...

Linda was not yet eighteen, yet this was her life. The metallic clang of a cell door. The hysterical sobbing of a fellow prisoner who had been beaten by a sadistic warder. Even when she slept the gray life of prison crept around her. She heard the harsh voice of a lady-lover warning her, "What you need's an old woman to take care of ya, so play it easy, kid, and be nice to me." She saw the flash of a switchblade and caught a glimpse of a face ripped and bleeding. Linda had been convicted of no crime. She was in protective custody. Yet this was her life-this was prison.

Hooked - Edited By Phil Hirsch

JUNKIES, POTHEADS, PUSHERS - THE PRIVATE HELLS OF MEN AND WOMEN SELF-CONDEMNED TO A LIVING DEATH

PYRAMID BOOKS X-1760

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING MARCH 1968

COVER DESIGN BY HENRY BERKOWITZ

PHOTO BY STEVE SHAPIRO FROM BLACK STAR

"THESE ARTICLES WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN CHALLENGE FOR MEN MAGAZINE AND MEN'S MAGAZINE"

HOOKED

-the addict who made his wife a prostitute for the money to feed his habit

HOOKED

-the hopped-up kids who shot and stomped an old man to death for kicks

HOOKED

-the junkie who turned dope peddler, with death as his first sale

HOOKED

is the searing, authentic story of the dope addict, the pusher, the narcotics cop, and the vicious, nightmare world they live in.

Tough Town - Jack Karney

"SEX, SIN and CRIME In an EAST SIDE SLUM"

Brutal! Shocking! Piercingly honest! - BOSTON HERALD

PYRAMID BOOKS 31

SECOND PRINTING FEBRUARY 1952

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WILLIAM MORROW & CO 1946 AS "THE RAGGED EDGE"

the ragged underbelly of Manhattan...

This was Marshall Place, where brothels and dope were as common as pushcarts and peddlers, and the kids were only one step ahead of the Police.

A desperate world of poverty and frustration that led lovely, red-haired Trina to a terrible maturity; that turned slick, fast-talking Blackie into a big-shot gangster, that made Dave, the dreamer, vow to clean up "the whole stinking mess."

Here is a story that might have been taken out of today's headlines; the grim and gutsy truth about hopped-up juvenile gangs, back-room abortions, and pool-room politics. It is one story you won't be able to put down.

With Sirens Screaming - Ernest Booth

"They paid the price of a premarital indiscretion"

PYRAMID BOOKS 121

NEW YORK, USA

PRINTED 1954

ABRIDGED

JAIL-BAIT

They were young.

They were alone in the night.

Lost in the fury of their passion, they committed an act that condemned them to a nightmare of shame and legal persecution.

WITH SIRENS SCREAMING 

is the shocking story of reckless teen-agers driven by a merciless penal code into a world of vicious crime.

The Warriors - Sol Yurick

"The most powerful novel of the world of  teen-age gangs since 'The Amboy Dukes'

"A brutal and terrifying book, a deeply significant work of art" - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

PYRAMID BOOKS X-1466

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING AUGUST 1966

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON AUGUST 1965

COVER ART BY HARRY SCHAARE

WAR IN THE STREETS

The night of July 4th. In the Bronx, a city-wide convention of gang leaders moves to organize New York's teen-age gangs into an army of 100,000 strong. But mistrust leads to insult and insult into open warfare, and soon the police move in. Suddenly, six members of "the Family" - the Coney Island Dominators - are alone on enemy terrain, hunted down and terrified for their lives. Their desperate flight back to the safety of Brooklyn becomes a journey filled with violence, a modern Odyssey gone terribly wrong, an adventure into every imaginable crime against mind and body...

"Stunning"

-New York Herald Tribune

Born Innocent - Creighton Brown Burnham

"Behind the walls of a girls' reformatory"

PYRAMID BOOKS F-729

NEW YORK, USA

2ND PRINTING MAY 1962

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PRENTICE-HALL MAY 1958

COVER ART BY BOB MAGUIRE

THESE WERE HER GIRLS

LETA, who longed for mothering and a home-and found them in the same establishment her horrified father visited for entertainment...

8-year-old SHIRLEY whose "services" had been sold by her parents-and who still believed in Santa Claus...

SUSE, the crafty forger, who had lived in nineteen foster homes since she was abandoned by a drunken father and mother who didn't care...

13-year-old DEBBY, rented by her mother to a neighborhood man for weekly pay...

Drunkenness, prostitution, robbery, arson and murder. The 276 girls in this reform school had committed every crime imaginable, and an inexperienced housewife and teacher suddenly found herself the warden in charge of them all. Armed only with compassion and determination (and happily ignorant of what lay ahead), Mrs. Burnham was to live with violence, vice and danger for the next ten years.

Happening At San Remo - Bruce Cassiday

"A daring novel of today's Young Underground - its sexual and mental excesses - its search for sensation and conflict"

PYRAMID BOOKS T-1614

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING AUGUST 1967

COVER PHOTO - R. NEMSER

COVER DESIGN - LEMBIT RAUK

Freakouts, LSD, Sit-ins, Riots, Sex-Freedoms

...the troubled, intensely alive world of today's college generation. A world of vitality, of color, of the search for new sensations, of commitment-and of danger. In Happening At San Remo, it is brilliantly, sometimes shockingly, portrayed, in a tense, action-filled story of youthful revolt, casual matings, perilous experiments, orgiastic "rituals"-and, at the shattering climax, an encounter with implacable evil

Steel Shivs - Bernard Sorkin

"The savage story of a gang of young punks who specialized in dope pushing, rape and murder-rougher than The Amboy Dukes"

PYRAMID BOOKS F-731

1ST PRINTING MAY 1962 

NEW YORK, USA 

COVER - PAUL BACON STUDIO

THE SHIV

...razor-sharp, steel blade glittering in the streetlight...

A TOOL for terror and murder in the nightmare world of the street gangs-silent, deadly in experienced hands...

A DEFENSE for guys like Steve-the only defense for a kid in bad with the cops...and with a sister the gangs wanted...

A WARNING for any girl who resists the gang members...and who doesn't want her face slashed and disfigured for life...

STEEL SHIVS is a brutally true novel of today's kids - the vicious ones, the terrified ones, the lost ones-the kids who live and die by the Steel Shivs