The Dog Star - Donald Windham

A COMPELLING Story of LOVE and VIOLENCE

SIGNET BOOKS 871

1ST PRINTING APRIL 1951

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY DOUBLEDAY

Take Your Hands Off Me

"Shaking her as a dog shakes a tin can tied to its tail, he lurched toward the door. Only her utter annihilation would satisfy him....But she held onto his shirt and called his name....Cursing her again he swung his fist around and smashed it into her face."

The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles

Strange Romance in the Exotic Desert

SIGNET BOOKS 840

FIRST PRINTING JANUARY 1951

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PUBLISHED BY NEW DIRECTIONS 1949

COVER ART BY HOOKS

Harem Bride

"The three wives of Belqassim strode into the room...They threw themselves upon Kit's prostrate form, wrenching the turban from her head and ripping her garments open by sheer force, so that all at once the upper part of her body was entirely unclothed...Then she felt the whip strike across her breasts. As she screamed, she reached out and grasped a head that bobbed in front of her...With all her might she pulled it downward and tried to rip the thing to shreds, but it would not tear; it merely became wet. The whip was making streaks of fire across her shoulders and back."

"The Sheltering Sky, it seems to me, is the finest lost-generation novel since the banks closed and the lost boys and girls began coming home from Montparnasse cafes to find themselves on the farms or in papa's factory."

-Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune

PAUL BOWLES had achieved a distinguished reputation as a composer and a music critic before he turned to literature, in his early thirties. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, published by New Directions, has been widely acclaimed by reviewers. Born in New York, he now lives in Tangiers.

A Hatful Of Rain - Michael Vincente Gazzo

A Shocking Drama of Raw Human Needs

A 20th Century-Fox production,

starring Eva Marie Saint,

Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa,

and Lloyd Nolan, Filmed 

in CinemaScope

Including 8 pages of scenes from the movie

SIGNET BOOKS S1412

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING JUNE 1957

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY RANDOM HOUSE

MOVIE TIE-IN

Compulsion!

A powerful movie and one of the most outspoken Broadway hits of recent years, this is the compelling drama of a secret drug addict - sick, ashamed and desperate - whose baffling behavior drives his troubled wife into his brother's arms.

"Has scenes of frightening power." - Time

Young Man With A Horn - Dorothy Baker

"Jazz was His Life - His Triumph and Tragedy"

SIGNET BOOKS 1088

NEW YORK, USA

2ND PRINTING DECEMBER 1953

FIRST PUBLISHED BY IN HARDBACK BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN 1938

Life of a Jazz Man

RICK MARTIN was a thin blond kid who grew up with music in his head - music that had to come out of a horn.

SMOKE JORDAN, Rick's best friend, helped him discover the thrilling world of jazz.

AMY NORTH, beautiful, unpredictable, loved Rick but could not compete with the music that throbbed in his brain.

This is a memorable and moving novel of a brilliant jazz musician and his fascinating, frenetic world.

Black Leather Barbarians - Pat Stadley

"They call themselves the Night Hawks. Six teen-age toughs on motorcycles, they can make any chick, take on any cop.
Read their story and you'll never rest easy again."

SIGNET BOOKS S1863

1ST PRINTING DECEMBER 1960

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY INC 1960

RUN, COPPER, RUN

The young cop parked his motorcycle beside the tree and headed toward them.

The moonlight caught the sheen of their black leather jackets, the tight fit of their blue jeans, the steel tips of their boots...caught the taunting smile on their lips as they stood waiting, six against one.

Take it easy, the cop told himself. They're just kids. But he knew better. He remembered what they had done to the girl, how they passed her around before they messed her up. And he knew that he couldn't let them get away with it.

He had to face them. He had to fight them. Here. Now.

Hell To Pay - William R. Cox

"They're hopped-up punks, at war with the syndicate - and they kill just for kicks"

SIGNET BOOKS 1555

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING AUGUST 1958

DEATH ON ALL SIDES

Kids with ducktail hairdos and tight pants who live on marijuana and the big H and glory in viciousness.

They fear nothing...because somebody big is backing them, promising them real power in the underworld if they buck the syndicate.

Kids hopped up on dope and out for blood.

This is the story of Tom Kincaid, a free-lance gambler-caught in the middle of a war between the syndicate and a gang of teen-age hoodlums-hemmed in by death...on all sides.