Thursday, 15 January 2015

Undercover Agent-Narcotics - Derek Agnew

"From the secret files of Interpol and from Police records in many countries"


CORGI BOOKS GG965
LONDON, UK
1ST CORGI PRINTING 1961
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SOUVENIR PRESS 1959
COVER ART BY RICHARDS

THE WHITE STUFF...
heroin, morphine, cocaine
AND THE WEEDS
marijuana, hashish...
These are the narcotics, the killer drugs on which addicts in the United States alone spend more than £100,000,000 every year-with a profit to the traffickers of 10,000 per cent!
UNDERCOVER AGENT-NARCOTICS
tells the thrilling story of a lonely, desperate battle against the operators who sell thrills, stimulants and...death...to their human prey.

WITH 8 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Mod Rule - Richard Allen


NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 450 04759 8
LONDON, UK
1ST EDITION JULY 1980
COVER PHOTO BY ADRIAN MOTT

LONDON MODS IN HASTINGS RIOT!
'The war started now! A Biker splayed brokenly on the road, his machine wheel-spinning against the kerb. Other Bikers roared their engines and bore down on Joe's crowd. It boiled down to a battle between nutty Bikers and gutsy Mods...'

Monday, 12 January 2015

The Gorbals Story - Edward Gaitens

"The Toughest Area of Glasgow!"


DIGIT BOOKS R582
LONDON, UK
FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING - NO DATE
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK AS 'DANCE OF THE APPRECNTICES'

THE GORBALS STORY
Here is a novel that gives us a deeper insight into The Gorbals - a district hitherto notorious only for unrelieved sordiness and hooliganism.

Famous for his short stories, in this novel the author weaves together the comedy and tragedy of Glasgow life in the years preceding and between the two World wars.

Sunday, 11 January 2015

Four Boys A Girl And A Gun - Willard Weiner

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

AVON BOOKS 292
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1951
SPECIALLY REVISED AND EDITED
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS AS 'FOUR BOYS AND A GUN' 1944

A Vivid and Powerful Picture of Juvenile Delinquency
Johnny Doyle came from 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 respecter of ancestry, that to the brutal and bold belong the rewards-in life and in love-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 grim light of a pitiless society. FOUR BOYS, A GIRL AND A GUN is a sensational and dramatic revelation of juvenile delinquency in the "great American melting pot" of the big city slums.

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...