Saturday 10 January 2015

Campus Doll - Edwin West

"The intimate story of a coed who turned 'love' into a big business"


MONARCH BOOKS 189
DERBY, CONNECTICUT, USA
FIRST PUBLICATION ANYWHERE MARCH 1961
COVER ART BY TOM MILLER

CAMPUS DOLL
At Clifton College the male students were never frustrated. When a campus cutie teased and ran, there was always Jackie Hayes' "study rooms" to resort to.

There you could do your "homework" in peace. There you could carry on experiments so dear to the hearts of all eager students, with tutors truly dedicated to their work: Sandy, Laura, Rita, Honey and even Jackie-the campus doll herself.

True, this extra-curricular work led to no degree but it did satisfy a need, with girls on your own mental level-coeds who knew as much about English Lit, Advanced Psychology-and Love-as you did.

Friday 9 January 2015

The Law Of The Streets - Auguste Le Breton

"A brutal story from the backstreets of Paris"


PAN BOOKS G287
LONDON, UK
1ST PAN EDITION 1959
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY W.M. COLLINS SONS & CO 1957

The law of the streets
AUGUSTE LE BRETON, author of Rififi-a sensation when filmed-makes another shattering impact with this vicious story of the underworld of Paris.

Two young thugs, YVES TREGUIER and LA GLACE, live the violent life of the backstreets where the gun and the razor are the only passports to survival.

This brilliant thriller tells of crime and passion, murder and revenge-but not without a strange tenderness.

'...convincing study of loyalties in the lower depths, lots of violence, and a seedily authentic rouges' gallery'.
-EVENING STANDARD

Thursday 8 January 2015

They Who Sin - John Roeburt

"A biting novel of teen-age wolf packs..and of a boy's lonely battle to save his own soul"


AVON BOOKS T-321
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1959
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

PORTRAIT OF A KILLER

He was seventeen.

His complexion was olive, his young body lean and strong.

His brown eyes were sometimes warm with dreams-

...of a far-off, sun-drenched island where birds sing and footsteps behind you do not fill you with terror;

...of Karin, the golden nymph whose green eyes and curvy figure aroused all the normal young-man yearnings.

But his name was Rico Mendero, and his reality was a world of back streets-of gutters and gangs, a world of exploding hate and violence where he forgot his dreams...

Wednesday 7 January 2015

American Graffiti - George Lucas, Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck

WHERE WERE YOU IN '62?

BLACK CAT BOOKS B-416
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1978
SCREENPLAY MOVIE TIE-IN
WITH 70 ILLUSTRATIONS
FIRST PUBLISHED BY EVERGREEN BLACK CAT 1971
COVER ART BY STEVE HELLER

"A lasting work of art!
Superlatives are dangerous, but sometimes hard to resist. George Lucas's American Graffiti is easily the best movie [of 1973]. Beyond that, I think it is the most important American movie since Five Easy Pieces-maybe since Bonnie and Clyde. The special excitement of the film is that it takes us beyond nostalgia-into a rediscovery of the past and of memories that might have been lost forever. American Graffiti is like going home; it's a primal experience!"
-Stephen Farber, The (Sunday) New York Times

"A very good movie, funny, tough, unsentimental!"
-Roger Greenspun, The New York Times

"A masterfully executed and profoundly affecting movie!"
-The Los Angeles Times

**** An altogether endearing movie that turns back the clock to an age of sublime innocence. Warm, funny, and poignant, a richly entertaining movie guaranteed to please nearly everyone!"
-Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News

Tuesday 6 January 2015

Hate Alley - Martin L. Weiss

"Days and nights of a Juvenile Delinquent..."


DIGIT BOOKS R391
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING - NO DATE

What turned Gary Miller from a lovable boy into a case-hardened criminal?
Was it prowling the jungle of the streets? His Family? His Friends?
Or was it simply the evil, corroding influence of Hate Alley, the breeding place of crime?
Anyway, somewhere along the line this lad went wrong.
As far wrong as you can go-murder!

Monday 5 January 2015

Two A Penny - Stella Linden & David Winter

"Now a World-Wide Pictures production starring Cliff Richard"


HODDER BOOKS 4396
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING 1968
MOVIE TIE-IN

"If you want me, God, you've got to stand in line like everyone else."
This is Jamie Hopkins, a young man whose insatiable hunger for fame and wealth has thrown him headlong into London's underworld, the world of the pusher and the junkie, of the con-man and the thug. He desperately wanted to be somebody, but the girl he loved and the God he despised forever stood in his way.

NOW THE YEAR'S MOST UNUSUAL FILM
TWO A PENNY
starring
CLIFF RICHARD - DORA BRYAN
AVRIL ANGERS
and introducing
ANN HOLLOWAY
Screenplay by Stella Linden - Directed by James F. Collier
Executive Producer Frank W. Jacobson
WORLD WIDE PICTURES

Sunday 4 January 2015

The Young Killers - Willard Weiner

"The story of a street gang in a big city slum"


AVON BOOKS T-174
NEW YORK, USA
REVISED EDITION - NO DATE c 1957
FIRST PRINTED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS AS 'FOUR BOYS AND A GUN' 1944
COVER ART BY SUSSMAN

A VIVID AND POWERFUL PICTURE OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

JOHNNY DOYLE came of Irish immigrants. BENNY's folks came from Poland. TONY's parents from Italy. Yet, they were neighbors in the slums of America - side-by-side with EDDIE RICHARDS, of old "American stock." Together they learned that poverty is no respect of ancestry - and they patterned their ways after the city jungle's rule of tooth and claw.

Love they took as they found it, money was to be had at pistol point...until blunder and panic pulled the trigger that brought their stark activities into the public light. THE YOUNG KILLERS is a sensational and dramatic revelation of juvenile delinquncy in the "great American melting pot" of the big city slums.