The Jungle - Nelson Algren

"A great novel of lawless youth" 

"A book of the hour...close to the raw" -New York Times

AVON BOOKS T-185

NEW YORK, USA

NO DATE 1950's

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK AS BY THE VANGUARD PRESS AS 'SOMEBODY IN BOOTS' 1935

"A powerful and disturbing book, which does not shrink from the harsh facts of violence, rape and human wretchedness."

-New York Sun

"Frank and brutal...violence and transcient, narcotic beauty"

-Washington, D.C., Post

The forthright story of Cass McKay : 

his father, a devil by his own admission-

his brother, an unmanly drunken wreck-

his sister, a gentle girl enslaved by hunger-

-and of that small, restless section of our youth of both sexes, which - in the absence of proper parental supervision - rides the rods that lead to degradation and delinquency.

"This book should be read, reread and studied."

-Washington, D.C., Post

"Sizzling from the griddle of experience"

-New York Times

Satchmo : My Life in New Orleans - Louis Armstrong

"The Colourful Vice-Ridden Days Of New Orleans"

ACE BOOKS 146

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1957

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PETER DAVIES FEBRUARY 1955

New Orleans - with its savage, joyous struggles for existence; its vigorous, warm personalities, its brutalities, its poignancy. New Orleans, the cradle of jazz and of all-time king of jazz - Louis Armstrong. This is a one-man success story with a difference, for Armstrong came up the hard way, and Satchmo gives us here the whole incredible, vital tingling Armstrong history from the slums of his childhood through reformatory to the time he left his fabulous Mississippi city and headed out trumpeting for Chicago and the world.

Knuckle Girls - Richard Allen

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 3651

LONDON, UK

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

FIRST PRINTING DECEMBER 1977

'That's it, folks. Roll up and see the infamous Ina Murray. Get your tickets here, missus. Watch her give 'em knuckle. If you're very good and applaud loudly she'll even smash a glass in some bloke's face. That's terrific. It's the greatest. Ina rules, okay!'

Ina Murray has become a problem. Beaten by her father, she has learned to hate; humiliated at school, she has learned to 'fight for her rights'; brutalised at an approved school, she has learned to terrorise and maim. Now, at eighteen, Ina faces a charge of malicious wounding, even 'intent to kill'. And only now do social workers and probation officers attempt to discover what brought Ina to that vicious combat of bicycle chain and copper wire amid a circle of cheering supporters.

'Girls used only to resort to psychological bullying...Now they're moving in gangs and using bicycle chains, knives and clubs. In fact they're beginning to behave in a way once only associated with the roughest of boys.'

-HENRY CLOVER, PRESS OFFICER OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF TEACHERS

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

The Man With The Golden Arm - Nelson Algren

"The classic modern novel of drug addiction on which the sensational Frank Sinatra film was based"

ACE BOOKS H414

LONDON, UK

FIRST ACE BOOKS EDITION 1961

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY NEVILLE ARMSTRONG 1959

the Man with the Golden Arm

Carl Sandburg says of Nelson Algren

"Great qualities of insight into people, a heart of pity, a gift of cadence and song, and often when you near heartbreak he throws in comic relief. The interwoven police, politicians, gamblers and thieves, fixers and hustlers, the jargons of the night-clubs and prisons, these are here in The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren makes his living grotesques so terribly human that their faces, voices, shames, follies and deaths, can linger in your mind with a strange midnight dignity. I join with Ernest Hemingway in hoping that Algren lives on, holds to his standards, and writes a long shelf of books."

The Violent Gang - Lewis Yablonsky

PELICAN BOOKS A802

MIDDLESEX, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1967

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY COLLIER-MACMILLAN 1962

COVER PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARKER

When in June 1957 a fifteen-year-old polio victim was beaten to death by the Egyptian Kings gang in a New York park, a new kind of 'killing for kicks' violence had burst upon the American scene. The author of this book entered the world of two New York gangs, the Dragons and the Balkans, to discover the youths' real motives, hidden from the police, from other social workers, and even from themselves. His investigations reveal that the violent-gang member is a displaced person, unable for various social and psychological reasons to associate with others, within a gang or outside it. The gang itself emerges as a loose grouping, more a vehicle for its members' fantasies and desires for status than a well-oiled criminal machine. Traditional methods of gang control, which have accepted the power of the gang on its members' own valuation and attempted to divert it to more worthwhile ends, may be merely aggravating the problem. Professor Yablonsky himself suggests some totally new methods of control, based upon the revolutionary Synanon experiments in group control.

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